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BBQ shrimp is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in New Orleans. Head-on Gulf shrimp simmered in a peppery butter-Worcestershire-lemon sauce, served bubbling with French bread to mop the sauce. Start with where to eat BBQ shrimp in New Orleans.
Head-on Gulf shrimp simmered in a peppery butter-Worcestershire-lemon sauce, served bubbling with French bread to mop the sauce. No barbecue involved, despite the name.
BBQ shrimp was invented at Pascal's Manale on Napoleon Avenue around 1954 by Jake Radosta, who wanted a dish for the bar that needed only a saute pan. The sauce is the dish: a lot of butter, a lot of black pepper, Worcestershire, lemon, garlic. The shrimp stay in their shells and the diner peels them at the table, then mops the sauce with French bread. Liuzza's by the Track later took the sauce and put it in a po-boy in the 1990s, inventing the BBQ shrimp po-boy. Both versions are the same sauce. Pascal's Manale still serves the original at 1838 Napoleon Avenue.
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