Ragin Cajun has to move
Mary Domingue, her son and the restaurant’s owner Stephen Domingue, and kid sister Jeannine cook in the kitchen of Ragin’ Cajun Café. Photo by Patrick FallonThe popular Ragin Cajun Café must find a new location, and that makes owner Stephen Domingue one Cajun who is ragin’. Domingue has guided the restaurant through two expansions during its 18 years on upper Pier Avenue, all the while priding himself on critically acclaimed food, an informal atmosphere and family-friendly tradition. But at the end of the summer he will be pulling up stakes. Building owner Chris Bredesen Sr. plans to turn the space over to his son to launch a new eatery, Town Hall Gastropub. Bredesen said he regrets the ill feeling and understands Domingue’s anger, but he decided to end Ragin Cajun’s run at the location at a time when the lease was ending and Bredesen’s son wanted to launch a restaurant. Domingue’s four-year lease expired in May. The Bredesens described the summer extension as a courtesy to Domingue, who said, in essence, thanks a lot for very little. “I came here from Louisiana with nothing. Nothing. I built me an empire, and now this guy is taking it away from me,” Domingue said of his landlord…
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