Diners offered "cajun" style food

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 14, 1 September 1987, Page 4

Diners offered "cajun" style food

"Le Barn" is a restaurant that was opened this winter by three friends with a common interest in good food. Chef-owner Larry Rogers, hostess-manageress Michelle and chef Derek Hanna are a partnership going back several years, having worked together on a number of occasions before going overseas three years ago. Larry worked in Sun Valley, Idaho which he described as being a similar ski town to Ohakune. Derek spent some time working for Andersousback Catering, a company that runs several restaurants in Sydney as well as providing high quality catering for private functions. The partnership saw the potential for an international style restaurant in this area. The food "Le

Barn" offers includes many seafood dishes, with fresh fish and poultry brought down from Auckland regularly. One seafood dish is a cajun style recipe. Cajun is a french-American style of cooking from the southern USA. It is fresh schnapper, blackened cajun style, hot and spicy, served in a lemon butter broth and aioli is the menus description. Other dishes include entrees such as a potato pancake with smoked salmon, eel, caviar and sour cream or how about sauteed chicken livers and sweetbreads with bacon, mushrooms, garlic and tomato over green salad. Another appetizing main is the chicken breast coated in chopped walnuts roasted and- served in a sour cream and mustard sauce with homemade tomato and currant chutney.