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| - Two visits and I had to send my warning to all who may decide to try it out.
First visit, waited in front of Please Wait To Be Seated sign for seven or eight minutes before anyone approached. Probably a 120 seat, 30 table joint. Ten tables occupied. Nobody has food except a party of 12. Flagged THE waiter, yes, only one on a Friday night and ordered a bottle of beer. ESPN on three flat screens on two walls. Asked for another beer before anyone took my order. Food delivered to tables every five minutes. Asked guy next to me what he ordered and says two pounds of crawfish 30 minutes ago. People next to him finally receive food for four and start complaining...cold food, wrong items delivered, not happy. They get up, throw some money on the table and walk out. Waiter finally asks me for order, I suggest I come back on another night. Owner comes over, says they got swamped when alot of tables came in at the same time. What?? Really?? No offer to comp, ten bucks on the table, I'm gone.
Second visit, Friday lunch, sat right down, ordered three pounds of crawfish and told they're out. Nada. Don't know that from white board which prices crawfish out at $10.99 a pound. 86 it for cryin out loud...where's your marker!! Decided to order fried seafood appetizer basket with shrimp, oysters, mussels, calamari and crab ($10.99). Ordered a pound of shrimp before it arrives. See picture for details, and yes, it is a real key. Order has more breading than content. Shrimp are fingernail tiny, crab is fake, no oysters, kiddie calamari, you get the drift. Shrimp come in a bag loaded with sauce, about a quart. So picture this, bib on, roll up the sleeves, pick out a big shrimp, peel it. The only sauce is remnants from fingers, so dip shrimp in sauce. Spicy. Good spice. Overpowers shrimp. Imagine going to Hooters, odering wings that come in a spicy soup, taking off the breading and dipping in the broth.
I like spice, but I don't want to drink it. Having been a New Orleans resident for more than a decade, this is not Cajun. Not even close. Add to the fact that the shrimp continue to cook in the bag and hot spices, deteriorating every second, your first bite is your best. The last few shrimp I attempted to peel were inedible.
Plenty of Philipinos coming in to enjoy buffet. Not one ordered off the menu.
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