Broussards - Paducah

Earlier this week the Glue had an eye appointment at my cousins place in Marion.  She'd had the same glasses for 10 years and it was time to get ones that weren't all scratched up.  They cost more than I was expecting but oh well.
Afterwards we decided to get something to eat and cajun sounded good which is almost always true.  Since we were in Marion we decided to go to Broussards in Paducah.  There was a lot of holiday traffic on the way down so I was ready to relax. 
We stopped by Paducah Beer Werks but they weren't open so we headed on to Broussards.  We got a table in the bar area and both of us ordered Sam Adams Winter Lager.  It was tasty Tuesday and they were offering samples of three items.  I asked about it and it was free, limited one per table.  Why not?  We got gumbo, creole and crawfish etouffee.  The samples were bigger than expected but not enough by itself so we ordered some fried alligator and crawfish etouffee.  We should have got alligator etouffee on the sample to change things up.  The etouffee was great.  The sample of gumbo was also very good but we were disappointed in the creole.  It used to be a favorite but just didn't seem as good as we remembered.  The bigger pieces of fried alligator were a little chewy but the smaller ones were very good.