Stop the presses! Anyone who reads Bart's Booklet a little carefully (probably no one that carefully, but a person can dream) knows that in the upper regions of the Bart Restaurant Top 5 Restaurant of All Time yardbird in Miami. The Amsterdam Graceland made a contribution to the southern North American pocket of comfort food, chicken and long-cooked meat, but now there is the Louisiana Lobstershack in Haarlem's Zijlstaat (nowadays one of the best food streets in Haarlem, more about that later). The small, noisy place (only downside: the acoustics) is packed when we enter, but you can wait outside, in the small patio covered with large parasols and heated. With a cocktail; the menu, printed on simple brown sheets, is two pages about food - short but powerful - and then about 15 pages about drinks. Cocktails mainly, in all shapes and sizes, but there is also beer and wine. You go there hungry because the portions are plump, in Kalinka's words. So big. But still... don't skip the starters: just right crab cakes, hush puppies (balls made from corn flour fried in a lot of oil) and - above all, we would like to say - the Boudin Balls, fried (oh well, we care) spicy rice and pork balls, oh so delicious, trust us. And then the main act has to start: a lobster party as usual. Or the brother from another mother: the body of lobster and the legs of crab. Surf and Turf, of course. A very good burger (almost a shame to choose it here, but still; it's great, with jalapeños). All delicious, with capital letters, and there's a good chance you'll go for one of those lobster-esque options. Logical and right too. But then immediately plan a second evening and that time go for the more exciting choice: Jambalaya or Gumbo, two typical Louisiana dishes that I ate for the first (and last) time in New Orleans. Spicy with rice, chicken and shrimp, both, and both a bit soupy, although the Jambalaya is made with tomatoes and the Gumbo has more meat. Fifteen euros for a plate of pure pleasure. Up to you. The Louisiana Lobestershack

Image via the men of OneSevenTree, the club responsible for the furnishings, which they also did for, among others Rotisserie Amsterdam East.