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| - Darn, I really don't like being the one to lower a businesses star rating however upon visiting Louisiana Seafood and Steakhouse last night I felt it necessary to comment on a few things both good and other...
I'm not super familiar with traditional Louisiana style cuisine but from the get-go a few items felt off in terms of preparation and quality. Now there was nothing that upset me, our group had a great time but i think the majority of my issue came from several food items AND the service.
Here are some quick points on things that I did enjoy:
- Stone Hammer (from Guelph) is the house beer and I greatly enjoyed my pint
- The location is easy to find and provides large portion sizes, tons of parking and apparently WiFi
For food I ordered an array of appetizers for our group to try so we could share family style, listed below are the apps we added and my thoughts on each:
- Deep fried calamari: nicely seasoned, dipping sauce was pretty tasty (chipotle?), howvever couldn't be sure on freshness
- Frog legs: I researched and apparently these should be separated, however ours were served in pairs so it literally still resembled the lower half of a frog. They were deep fried but I felt they were mushy and tasted off. I'm no expert, but something was off...
- Whole crawfish: Considering that our server brought us eating instructions ripped from the back of a box of frozen Crawfish, it's safe to say these were not fresh. However the seasoning (butter sauce and cajun spice) were delicious and frozen or not these were tasty
- Fresh Malpeque large oysters: Served well, and seemed to be fresh (didn't get sick from them). I enjoyed this
The purpose for our trip was to try their alligator, but apparently there is some sort of issue getting the meat across the boarder and they've been sold out for quite some time (sad). But with the assortment of apps, we didn't miss the gator too much.
For the main course I had the New Orleans jambalaya. Now this is one dish that I've had numerous times before and this dish fell well short of my standards. Essentially I was given a large bowl of rice and tomato sauce. The three key elements of Jambalaya (Andouille sausage, shrimp, chicken) were either scarce or non-existent.. boo! I received 3 very tiny shrimp, a few shreds of chicken and not one piece of sausage... very disappointing. This was a cost saving dish, not a quality dish.
I was surprised by the service as well as with my main course as we were only one of two tables and even then I needed to crane my neck around to flag down our server to order and to get the bill process going.
I wanted to LOVE this place, but I feel it fell short IMO, maybe I went on a bad night, but I'll give it another go sometime in the future. My only hope is that management/kitchen see these honest comments and make some easy/necessary changes - there is potential for greatness here and I more than anyone would like to see them succeed.
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