Truck Farm Tavern Opens In St. Rose.

Written by Tom Fitzmorris November 25, 2015 11:01 in

[title type="h3"]UnderTheTableSquareTruck Farm Tavern Opens In Time For Thanksgiving[/title] A couple of weeks ago Chef Brack May opened an interesting new on the River Road just past Kenner, self-descriptively called Truck Farm. For those too urban or too young to recognize the expression, a truck farm is a small operation that grows the kind of vegetables you'd find in a supermarket, and sells them at retail. It's similar to a farmer's market, but you usually have to drive farther to find a truck farm. [caption id="attachment_47234" align="alignright" width="320"]Brack May, chef-owner of Cowbell and Truck Farm Tavern. Brack May, chef-owner of Cowbell and Truck Farm Tavern.[/caption]Brack's main restaurant is Cowbell, also more or less on River Road. He read somewhere that the River Parishes (St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. James and Assumption Parishes) were once loaded with truck farms. I can vouch for that. When I first started making retreats at Manresa, its land held had many acres of truck farming. My group would be there during the broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage season. The soil around there is spectacularly fecund. Brack's Truck Farm serves lunch Tuesday through Saturday and dinner Wednesdays through Saturdays in the town of St. Rose, just upstream of Kenner. (It occupies the former space of St. Rose Tavern, a longtime neighborhood café well-known for its poor boys.) Truck Farm has a barbecue emphasis, and a Cajun quality too. The availability of raw materials from the farmers dictates what will appear on the menu, but it's basic fare, including the likes of red beans and poor boys. And they have wine and beer, indoor and outdoor seating (on wooden benches), and a stronger take-out and cartering service than one might expect. Probably not a bad place to beef up your Thanksgiving menu. (Although I don't know whether the place will be open Thanksgivng.)

Truck Farm Tavern. River Parishes: 11760 River Rd. 504-699-0099.