Learn while you eat! Louisiana French Creole Gourmet Family/Group 4-Course Lunch & Exclusive Dinner Parties & private Creole cooking classes at the Jean-Batiste Andre' dit la Fleur Creole Plantation Guesthouse in old Washington. Experience old world fine dining in our elegant painted dining hall w/ LOUISIANA/FRANCE Educ./Art Tour Guide Creole Gourmet John laFleur, Louisiana Creole Fine Dining/guests. Auberge francophone a la louisiana. L'enseignement de la cuisine/culture Creole-louisianais Ici on parle le vieux francais! Creole Gourmet, John la Fleur's Louisiana Creole Plantation B&B 4-course small group dining Louisiana Creole B&B, Tea Parlor, Creole food/cookbooks/history Louisiana Bed 'n Breakfast, La.Creole people, language & culture/Auberge francophone a la louisiane!
Email Us in Washington, Louisiana at:
this address, and also to order our books: creolebookstore@hotmail.com
        

         The Jean Batiste laFleur Plantation           

  Creole Gourmet  Food Club & Guesthouse   

         Cooking Classes & Int.'l Art  Tours                           

 

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Courtableau House B&B
circa 1820

A Registered, Louisiana Creole Plantation Guesthouse & Members Creole Gourmet Club!

 


Courtableau House Bed & Breakfast - Relax the Creole way at our plantation house bed and breakfast in Washington, Louisiana.    

The Jean-Batiste André dit la Fleur Plantation 

homesite was built in the 1820'S

now

Creole Café Madame L'Anglois & Plantation Guesthouse

PHOTOGRAPHY & SLIDE SHOW PHOTOS BY LOUISIANA PHOTOGRAPHER NORRIS FONTENOT


WANT TO GO TO PARIS, ROME OR LONDON W/ FRIENDS OR FAMILY WITH AN EXPERIENCED, BI-LINGUALTOURGUIDE FROM DEPARTURE TO RETURN TRIP, AT PRICES YOU REALLY CAN AFFORD, AND SEE PLACES YOU'LL NEVER GET TO SEE WITH COMMERCIAL TOUR COMPANIES?

THEN, YOU NEED TO SEE OUR EDUCATIONAL INT'L TRAVEL PAGE... AND GET READY TO FLY, CHER! GET A MINIMUM OF 12 FRIENDS OR FAMILY MEMBERS AND I'LL DO THE REST!

CALL MR. jOHN, LOUISIANA CREOLE GOURMET/SCHOLAR/AUTHOR/INT.'L TOURGUIDE OF 35 YRS EXPERIENCE, TODAY!!!

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Gourmet Food Club & Cooking Classes-OOOOHHHH, c'est bon, cher!

Classes by Appointment only: 20 adults limit. (18+)

Fees: $35.00/student, includes registration, full-course meal, & instruction,Certificate of Accomplishment and 15% discount on our author-signed books! 

Lunch or Dinner by Reservation in the Painted Dining Hall-Cafe' Madame L'anglois

Call 337 418 1506 

All Reservations must be confirmed or lost to other guests within 1 hour of arrival!

We serve ONLY 12 people per reservation/hour so, if you miss your RESERVATION, you might not get in or you won't have any food!

 

PRIX FIXE MENU: 4 Course Fixed Price Menu $19.99*

Reservation/Serving hours:

Choose your Lunch hours: 

1) 10:30-11:30, 2) 11:30-12:30, 3) 12:30-1:30

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturday AM/PM & Sunday AM? 

Choose your Dinner hours:

Fridays & Saturdays Only:

1) 5:00pm-6:00, 2) 6:00pm-7:00, 3) 7:00-8:00pm

PRIX FIXE  MENU: 4 Course Fixed Price Menu $19.99*

Boissons/Drinks:

Aperitif: Kir a la Creole,Creole lemonade/Wine/coffee/BYOB (Coca-cola is $1.00 additional charge)

1)Soup:

Okra, shrimp/tasso or hen/tasso/sausage gumbo w/rice /sweet potato/salad

2)Salade:

Eggplant a la sauce grecque

Smothered caramelized cabbage /w pork/beef sausage

3)Entree:

Lenten Special: 

Creole Catfish Courtbouillon

Creole Shrimp Etouffee Stuffed Bellpeppers w/ French bread & lemon basil butter

Seafood Gumbo (optional)

Non-Lenten/Pagan Entree:

La Fricassee de poulet et saucisses aux carottes et navets

(Chicken & sausage, carrot & turnip stew) or

La Sauce piquante de poulet et tasso stuffed bellpeppers

(spicy chicken & tasso sauce served over rice)


Chicken/Hen/Sausage Gumbo -entree

4) Dessert:

Vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce/poached pears in caramel rum sauce w/ pecans or fresh fruit choice

*Add $5.00 per membership fee. (Good for 3 visits)

HIGH TEA ANYONE? CALL US FOR 2 WK ADVANCE RESERVATIONS TO PLAN A HOLIDAY WITH THAT SPECIAL FRIEND OR GROUP OF NO MORE THAN 10 PLEASE!

 (NO, YOU CAN'T BRING A "GUEST" AT OUR EXPENSE!)

Lunch/Dinner requires advance RESERVATIONS and if you are not a member you can purchase $5.00 membership at the door or while making reservatns. For Saturday or Sunday Menu call us at the number below...We do not serve lunch menu for dinner, unless requested in advance.

Please phone your inquiries to 337 418 1506, or email us at: Creolebookstore@hotmail.com

The Jean-Batiste André la Fleur Creole Plantation Guesthouse Hours:

(Must have 1wk advance reservations!!! -absolutely no walk-ins!

 

NOW OPEN!!!  FEBRUARY 2013-Spring-Summer

FALL, September-November 15

Closed during WINTER

Tuesdays-Fridays; Saturday Supper 4:00pm-8:00 pm and Sunday (Diner Dimanche) 11:00 am-2:00pm only

BED 'N BREAKFAST GUESTS CHECK-IN 4:30PM

CHECK-OUT 1:00 NOON,

SMOKING ALLOWED ON FRONT & BACK GALLERIES OR IN THE GARDENS

NO UNRULY OR UNSUPERVISED CHILDREN

NO PETS.

 

RATES FOR B&B GUEST STAY: $200.00/NIGHT PER ROOM.

We have two private suites each equipped with private bathroom facilities (No showers) Both are joined by a private sitting room with private entrance/exit w direct access to front gallery. Nous avons deux chambres aux lits doubles avec cabinet prive' Les plats de petit-dejeuner et votre choix de dejeuner ou de souper pour le prix de chambre. Apellez nous autres ou evoyez un email a: creolebookstore@hotmail.com Tel:337.418.1506

See button on left side screen, A PEEK INSIDE to view our 2 private suites w private baths and connecting sitting room!

Price includes check-in Cocktails, Creole gourmet breakfast, and dinner option on fine china w/ silver service, beautiful florals amid original furnishings, Tuesday-Saturday PM, per couple. Without lunch or dinner option, flat rate room cost is, $200.00 per couple. (Our slaves are freed and we now pay the help!)

 MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED Visa, Mastercard, Discover PH. 337 418 1506 PLEASE CALL US UPON ARRIVAL AT ENTRANCE GATE FOR ADMISSION!!!

See our GUEST COMMENTS PAGE FOR MORE INFO!

 

Our beautiful and factual LOUISIANA FRENCH CREOLE Culinary, Cultural and Linguistic books!

1) A CULTURAL LEGACY CREOLE GOURMET SECRETS OF LOUISIANA  rated EXCELLENT! $59.95 (Limited supply available before 4th reprinting)

2) Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions: Facts vs. Fiction Before and Since Cajunization $49.95 (february 2013)

Ever wonder why you CANNOT find Mardi Gras in Acadian Canada? Why they don't know what gumbo and maque choux are? Why their French is different from our Louisiana French? Did your grandparents insist themselves to be CREOLE? -even though Lafayette's mass-marketing efforts give the impression that ONLY BLACK people are Creole? And, are you one of us that KNOWS that your ancestors were NOT ACADIAN FRENCH, but came from Spain, France, Africa, or were Irish or Italian or Germanic  or even native-American Creoles? Yet, you may be confused because of Lafayette's mass-marketing machinery and CODOFIL have long given the impression that ALL WHITE FRENCH SPEAKERS MUST BE "CAJUN?" Wonder why our Louisiana French is so full of Choctaw words? Obviously, there were no Choctaws in Acadian Canada, so what is really going on when Lafayette labels our old Louisiana French dialects of Colonial French and Afro-Creole as "Cajun French?" The answers to these questions and much more relative to Louisiana's food and language history are now available for all to know the truth-at last! In this 107 p. hardcover book enriched with antique black and white photos as well as the beautiful full-color images of Norris Fontenot, Louisiana's multi-ethnic Creoles will at last have HONEST answers grounded in solid research from the historians and linguistic scholars who deal with facts and not slogans! To order send us an email to CREOLEBOOKSTORE@HOTMAIL.COM

ATTENTION: 3RD PRINTING OF COMMEMORATIVE EDITION W/ AUTOGRAPH & fleur de lis  NOW AVAILABLE.

SEE, CREOLEBOOKSTORE BUTTON ABOVE TO ORDER....A CULTURAL LEGACY, CREOLE GOURMET SECRETS OF LOUISIANA

 

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Bienvenu chez nous! Oui, ici on aime toujours parler en francais! Welcome to our house! Yes, we still enjoy speaking French here!

L'HISTOIRE DE LA PLANTATION JEAN-BATISTE ANDRÉ dit la FLEUR et de CREOLES LOUISIANAIS

 

 

 


 

 


 

 

 

 
 

 


 


*A Cultural Legacy:  CREOLE GOURMET SECRETS OF LOUISIANA,

An Absolute MUST for EVERY LOUISIANA CREOLE FOOD LOVIN GOURMET, it features a special essay by Mr. la Fleur, an expert in Louisiana French culture and a teacher of modern French, which restores the dignity and understanding of a culture, people and language greatly misunderstood and often misrepresented in history's memory. Gorgeous food displays of authentic indigenous meals were shot ON SITE AT BEAUTIFUL COURTABLEAU HOUSE Plantation! This book is unique book provides a serious study of the culture, language and people through the food language. All recipe headings are in original French w/ English subtitles.This COOKBOOK, is ILLUSTRATED in about 100 full color images by NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CAJUN PHOTOGRAPHER, Norris Fontenot. Almost 200 RECIPES for UNIQUE LOUISIANA CREOLE FOOD, WINES, HORS D'OEUVRES, ENTREES, SALADS, SOUPS, GUMBOS, DESSERTS & TEA long enjoyed by COURTABLEAU HOUSE family guests & friends with a special section of, 'OTHER SECRETS' by talented veteran Cajun/Creole cooks! A dictionary of origins and meanings provides fascinating historical-etymological information on the food and recipes presented; by an author who knows the language (and teaches modern French, too!) A cultural cookbook never anticipated and long overdue, Courtableau House Favorites: Creole Gourmet Secrets of Louisiana is all about French-speaking Louisiana's Evangeline, St. Landry, Avoyelles and rural Lafayette parishes; the culture, language and the food of its's fascinating and racially diverse people! Only $49.95 plus taxes 

-RESERVE YOUR COPY BY CALLING, or EMAILING US TODAY at 337 418 1506; email: creolebookstore@hotmail.com!!!

CONTACT US AT: 337 418 1506 or if line is busy, email creolebookstore@hotmail.com or for faster service: CREOLEBOOKSTORE@HOTMAIL.COM

Activities During the Spring & Summer

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 SOUTHERN LIVING magazine recently named WASHINGTON, La. as one of America's top WEDDING DESTINATIONS! Here are some reasons, along with some of our, heretofore, unknown! NOV/DEC 2008 EDITION SOUTHERN ACCENTS FEATURES COURTABLEAU HOUSE IN HISTORIC WASHINGTON AD!!!

  *Antique Churches, (Catholic & Protestant) possessing unmatched architectural charm and perfectly preserved for staging that fairy-tale wedding

 Eh, ben, oueh, on parle en francais ici,  a Courtableau House!  
    

Ask us about our fabulous Louisiana High Teas for any of your special life occasions in the Orleans Room!*

*see our HIGH TEA PAGE for details!!!

 

 

 

     The Jean-Batiste la Fleur Creole Plantation

             Food Club & Cooking Classes 

                      Washington, Louisiana, St. Landry Parish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


COURTABLEAU HOUSE IS THE FORMER CREOLE PLANTATION OF JEAN-BATISTE LAFLEUR, (brother of Jacques)THE SON OF JOSEPH LAFLEUR GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER OF CURRENT OWNER JOHN LAFLEUR II, ( A Louisiana Creole, French teacher, artist, international tourguide & interpreter, entrepreneur, writer, Louisiana cultural erudite & gourmet)
 Washington, Louisiana.


 


To Order our Cultural History/Cookbook hit Louisiana Creole Bookstore button above at left of house photo and follow directions.