{"id":11276,"date":"2014-04-15T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2014-04-15T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:57:07","slug":"middendorfs-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11276","title":{"rendered":"Ponchatoula, LA &#8211; And Middendorfs Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 miles north of New Orleans, \u00a0Ponchatoula is a city of about 5,000 souls in Tangipahoa Parish. Established in the early 1800s as a logging camp, the town today is a regional commerce center for the Parish, and home to Louisiana&#8217;s second largest festival (after Mardi Gras), the Ponchatoula Strawberry Fest, which takes place in early April.<\/p>\n<p>The town also describes itself as &#8220;the antique capital of America&#8221; and it does seem to have its fair share of shops of that ilk, and prices are very reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>The local produce market sells a wide variety of products grown in the area, including the strawberries, along with preserves and various canned fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth a drive if you&#8217;re visiting the Crescent City, and enroute or on the way back, take in a meal at <a href=\"http:\/\/middendorfsrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middendorf&#8217;s<\/a>, 10 miles south of Ponchatoula on I-55. \u00a0Famous for crispy thin sliced strips of catfish, your lunch of dinner options include a wide variety of local seafood, steaks, and chicken. \u00a0Start out with a cup of \u00a0gumbo, turtle soup, or a dozen fresh oysters.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana seafood is fresher than nearly anything you&#8217;ve ever eaten, and enjoying it on the waterside dock \u00a0overlooking a back bay of Lake Ponchatrain, at Middendorf&#8217;s makes it twice as tasty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/middendorfsrestaurant.com\/menu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/midd1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11277\" alt=\"midd1\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/midd1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/midd2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11278\" alt=\"2009 dining guide\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/midd2.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Middendorfs Restaurant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/187\/1411276\/restaurant\/Louisiana\/Ponchatoula\/Middendorfs-Seafood-Restaurant-Akers\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" alt=\"Middendorf's Seafood Restaurant on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1411276\/biglink.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 miles north of New Orleans, \u00a0Ponchatoula is a city of about 5,000 souls in Tangipahoa Parish. Established in the early 1800s as a logging camp, the town today is a regional commerce center for the Parish, and home to Louisiana&#8217;s second largest festival (after Mardi Gras), the Ponchatoula Strawberry Fest, which takes place&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11276\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ponchatoula, LA &#8211; And Middendorfs Restaurant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[368,867,3157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}