The Special of the Day is "Family": Dwyer's Cafe Turns Sixty

Six days a week, twice on weekdays, Lester Gautier is there. “I usually get the plate lunch, like a meatball stew, or maybe go off-menu for a large shrimp salad,” he says. “But really, whatever they put in the plate is usually good for me.”

But why six days a week at Dwyer’s Café’ in downtown Lafayette? Why not all seven? Gautier laughs. “Well, I usually skip Saturdays. I don’t want to have too much of a good thing.” Still, Gautier is a proud and loyal member of the Dwyer’s Café ‘faithful’ who recognize that, in his words, “…good food is good food…”

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THE CUISINE

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