Fricot food culture that the call to eat in Acadian French is ""Au fricot!"" Fricot Fricot is a traditional Acadian dish. The word "fricot" has its origins in 18th century France where it was used to mean a feast. The following century, it had evolved to mean "meat stew", and later still it became used to refer to prepared food. The main ingredients consist of potatoes, onions, and whatever meat was available, cooked in a stew and topped with dumplings. The common meats used were chicken ("fricot au poulet"), clams ("fricot aux coques"), rabbit ("fricot au lapin des bois"), beef, or
St. Lars restaurant voted "restaurant of the year" by Natt & Dag. The restaurant has received favorable reviews from all major Norwegian newspapers. During the "horse meat scandal" or the 2013 meat adulteration scandal that shocked European consumers on the beginning of 2013, St. Lars' horse beef tartar became their best-selling starter dish. Owner Andreas Viestad got a lot of media attention claiming that prepared correctly horse beef was the best meat to be had. In the morning hours of June 6, 2012 the restaurant's custom made grill was stolen by four men in a van. Viestad who called the grill "the Rolls