A new food trailer will soon offer Denver area residents and visitors some tasty Cajun dishes. Cajun Smoke owner Dakota Savoie moved to Denver from Louisiana in July 2020 with the intentions of opening a food truck, but the Pandemic halted those plans.
“This year, I feel like it’s a good time since all these places are opening back up. Mandates are being lifted,” Savoie told What Now Denver. “I would like to be open by spring or summer time.” If he can open the food trailer sometime in March, he would, but he is waiting on permits. “It’s just a waiting game.”
The menu will feature Cajun flavors. “Food from the South is different. It’s stuff we cook all day. Your grandmother will wake up at 5:00 in the morning and start cooking for dinner.”
He plans to offer gumbos, jambalayas, stews, rice and gravy, boudain, and more. “Stuff that I was raised on,” he said. “I feel like it’s definitely something that’s missing here in Denver and around here.”
Savoie was born and raised in southern Louisiana, and Cajun cooking runs in his blood. His grandfather cooked gumbo for NASA, and his great-grandfather owned a butcher shop in Louisiana.
Savoie plans to source meats from back home but will incorporate local vegetables into his recipes.
