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| - Fried alligator?! FRIED ALLIGATOR?! I'm feeling adventurous! I love trying new things that I've never had before! So I got the Yelp deal: $10 for $20 worth and I went with my boyfriend for lunch.
When we walked in, I was a little surprised that it was a diner style establishment. I guess I was expecting it to be like one of the modern sandwich places, which is typically a "food court" type of process when ordering food and finding a place to sit. Aside from that, they had some decorations with some New Orleans flavor.
I've never had a po-boy and aside from Hot n Juicy, I've never really been to a place that specializes in Cajun/Creole. I know, I'm deprived and limited in my food categories. But on the flip side, I don't know if this place is traditional or close to what you call traditional. I can only say if it's good or not!!!
What did we order? Of course I went with the alligator po-boy. I believe it was called "The Swamp" and my boyfriend went with the 5 in. Muffuletta called "Crescent City." They both came with cajun chips and coleslaw but we replaced them with the fried mac & cheese balls for the muffuletta order.
Fried Alligator Po-Boy? I APPROVE. The alligator meat looks to be deep fried. The meat is very chewy and it takes a while to chew. My boyfriend typically eats pretty fast and he rarely chews his food for a long time but with the alligator, he was chewing!! I also heard a lot of people say it tastes like chicken. It does in a way but not quite completely chicken. I know, my description is so helpful! But their sauce for this po-boy is delicious. It had enough spices in it to keep it interesting.
As for the muffuletta, I was not too interested in it. It was good yes but I ate this after my half of the alligator po-boy and in comparison, it was quite bland. And when I say bland, I mean boring. The flavors of the muffuletta ran a flat line for me. It was maybe 10% cheese, 10% salami, and 80% ham. The flavor of the ham got old and tiring FAST. Not to mention, half of the sandwich was HUGE. I could barely finish 1/4th of this.
The cajun chips looked homemade. It was a little hard. The coleslaw was good -- a little sweet :) Fried mac & cheese balls were what they were...deep fried regular kraft mac & cheese.
We also tried the beignets. I was really forward to trying these but I gotta say, I wasn't impressed. The first time I had these were in Disneyland and from my personal opinion, I prefer Disneyland's version. The ones served here were too hallow, too huge, and too oily. The oil that they used to deep fry this was literally dripping off of the plate, dripping onto the plate, and later it kind of pooled. It was good but nothing I would get again.
The service here was really good. They were attentive. The server that we had, I forgot her name, but she was wonderful. We talked and we laughed. Awesome.
Would definitely come back here again to try some other stuff. Only thing i didn't like is that I walked out smelling like oil ... boo.
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