Anyone who’s been around Acadiana for a few decades knows the name "Ruby," as in "Ruby’s Restaurant."
Her son Tim of "Tim’s Kitchen" is keeping the legacy going.
"In our core group of our family, it's just a natural gift that God has bestowed upon us to be great cooks,” says Tim Sharlow. “You go in the kitchen and you just cook; whatever you throw on the pot, it comes out and, 'oh, that's delicious!'."
Generations of Lafayette eaters knew Ruby's on Eraste Landry Road and Kaliste Saloom and then Rue Louis XIV. Ruby's decision to retire a few years back left a bit of a void in the need to satisfy our taste buds. In 2018, the fifth of Ruby's seven children opened his own place, with classic recipes from his youth.
“We had smothered chicken, we had chicken fricassee, we had gumbo…” And customers can quickly tell that there's a decided touch of "mom" thrown in.
“But I'm old school,” explains Sharlow. “You're gonna’ get rice and gravy, what mom and dad cooked, what grandmother cooked years ago. Rice and gravy, you're on a diet? Don't came here; well you can still come here and have a chicken fried steak, but no gravy.”
Customers like Darnel Sonnier come to Tim's Kitchen on Albertson's Parkway six days a week, but if you're late, you do run the risk of having those classic favorites sell out quickly.
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