The best culinary development on the North Shore in the twenty-three years I've lived there is the proliferation of old-style neighborhood cafes. They're usually in strip malls instead of in the neighborhoods, but the food is immediately recognizable as bone-fide everyday New Orleans eats. This well-hidden cafe is one of the better such additions to the scene, with first-class poor boys and the classic platters.
Pontchartrain's story is a familiar one: the owner, an evacuee from St. Bernard Parish, moved here and started his shop in 2007. Until 2013, it was in a tiny mall space not nearly big enough for the volume. Then moved to a larger home in a bigger mall straddling the gap between LA 22 and the West Causeway Approach.
The new place is a great improvement over the old, if only because the line doesn't have to begin outside. But still nothing fancy, befitting a good poor boy shop.
No matter how much of the menu appeals to you, order light. Come back another time for the other stuff. Portions are very large.
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