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| - 3 1/2 stars. I wanted to give it 4 stars being a family establishment and all. First of all, the food is good. Really down home good. One can easily get addicted to the hush puppies with honey butter. Or shall I say honey butter with hush puppies. It's as though these two need to coexist in flavor. I tried the hush puppy alone and you just can't indulge without the butter. Now, if you're expecting a Long John Silver kind of hush puppy, this is not it. It's more like a yummy corn meal concoction shaped like a cocktail sausage. This was served hot n fresh while we waited for our order. One can easily fill up on these before the entrees arrive.
The server was friendly but the place was really busy. You get one trip to the salad bar and that was fine. The plates are nicely chilled and there are a few mayonnaise based salads like Mac salad, potato salad, some kind of kraut (?) salad and of course, green salad fixins'. It was all delicious.
I ordered the award winning gumbo made with turkey. I didn't see okra in this soup but it had the right amount of flavor and saltiness that I would recommend it. Different and unique for sure. Now comes the actual entrée. We decided to be adventurous and order the platter which included alligator meat, farm raised catfish, fried oysters. Like the old adage, "It tastes like chicken" is true about the 'gator meat. Yes, even my son will have bragging rights that he ate alligator and actually liked it. It looked like a chicken nugget. He also ordered a grilled cheese and really enjoyed it.
I'm not a fan of any farm raised fish, however, the entree came with it. The catfish was crispy coated in a cornmeal crust and fried just right with no greasy residue, perfect accompanied with tartar sauce.
Note: tartar sauce does not arrive with your meal. You need to pick that up at the salad bar.
So if you have a hankering for fried Bayou type of food, check this place out. It's not Cajun spicy at all though. Next time, I will def order the snow crab legs which I heard are flown in from Canada. This restaurant has some uniquely prepared signature dishes like their hush puppies, alligator meat, catfish and gumbo that would bring me back. It would be nice to have some low cal offerings too, healthier salads or signature desserts. I get the whole Bayou theme, but this place should get an update and it would up the energy level.
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