Ragin Cajun
After years of searching, I finally found awesome Cajun food (outside of my kitchen) in Southern California! The place is called Ragin Cajun and its in Hermosa Beach, California. Hermosa Beach is a beautiful beach town south of LAX airport — about 25 minutes from downtown.
I found their website while searching for Cajun stuff on Google and after reading the "About Us" page, I decided to give it a shot. The owner is from Lafayette, afterall. And not only that, he’s a Domingue from Lafayette!
I ordered the fried catfish, fried froglegs and broiled catfish covered in crawfish etouffee. It was amazingly authentic! I was so excited I started talking a million miles an hour.
I figured this great experience called for a celebration and I celebrated with my favorite dessert — bread pudding in rum sauce. It did not dissapoint and the pecans they added gave it a nice Cajun touch.
I’m going to write an article about it soon but until then, here are teaser pictures.
To top it all off, I found out that the server was also from the Lafayette area. We talked for a little bit and even discovered that we knew some of the same people. What a small, delicious world 
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You did not invite me for those frog legs? Gosh they look might good.
Don’t think it’s the same owner but there’s a chain (3 or 4 locations) in Houston as well owned by a guy from Lafayette. http://www.ragin-cajun.com/If you ever go inside - there are USL/ULL and other local south Louisiana high school stuff!Wonder if they are related??
I’ve actually eaten at Ragin Cajun in Houston! I wasn’t as big of a fan as this one as I recall. I had their boiled crawfish and they may have been a little small. I wonder where they are from?
you say he is a Domingue? You do know that is Aunt Donna’s maiden name? I wonder if they may be related? If so, you may be able to nudge him for a discount next time you are there.