Blue Bayou
Photos Location Boulevard Kukulcán Km. 10.5 Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Offering elegant dining, Blue Bayou is considered one of the most romantic restaurants in Cancun, featuring Cajun & Creole specialties from New Orleans. In a lush Bayou setting with live jazz music.
The only one restaurant in Cancun claiming the DIRONA award (Distinguished Restaurant of North America) since 1998.

The richly blended flavorful cuisine that we know as "Cajun and Creole" comes from the deep south of the United States of America in Louisiana. However, its roots hail from various parts of the world and its history is as complex as the spices used in its dishes. In the 18th century French settlers in the area known as "Acadia" in Canada, where forced out by the British.

Eventually 1600 of them made their way down to the Mississippi delta area near New Orleans. At this time New Orleans was a wild country which was attracting refugees and settlers from Europe as well as from the West Indies. This blend of French, American, Spanish, Italian and African Islands gave rise to this new cuisine called Cajun and Creole.

Over the years these different cultures using the food products that are available in this rich area have given birth to a true World Cuisine. Many people wonder what the origin of the word "Cajun" is. When the French settlers first arrived from Acadia the American Indians could not pronounce properly the word "Acadian" and subsequently the name Cajun was used. "Cajun" is the food of the country people in the Bayous and "Creole" is more of a city food from New Orleans. However both of them are frequently mixed…

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