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| - Decided to try out the new restaurant in the neighborhood as we would really like to find a good place close to home. The only good thing I can say about this place is the service was friendly and the food came out quickly. That's where the good ends. The food was horrible? I ordered the gumbo, which generally has shrimp and uses veggies like celery! Bell peppers and onions. Theirs has none of this, instead what I got was a brown goo with what appeared to be canned chicken and beef. I also ordered the boudin balls, again not good. The outside was nice and crisp, but the inside was nothing but rice and raw breading "paste". Where was the boudin? My husband had the andouille sausage, he said it was ok, but it was literally a sausage with mustard on what looked like an uncooked bun (it was white!). Our friends had the oyster po boy and the shrimp étouffée. I had a bite of he po boy and thought it was awful...maybe I just don't like oysters, but my friend said it was just so so. The shrimp étouffée got an ok review by my other friend, however it he menu said it came with rice...you had to look really hard for the rice under what looked like the same brown goo they called gumbo. One of the sides that was ordered was the Mac and cheese...it had no cheese flavor, needed salt and all the macaroni noodles were broken up and scooped into a glob.
The extended bar is nice and they could really turn that place into a great neighborhood bar, the food just needs some major tweaking. We were there on a Saturday night and they had karaoke which is always fun, however the ladies that were running it brought their young kids and had them singing too...weird and not the place for kids.
I dont think we will be back and sadly if the food doesn't drastically improve, I give this place 3 months before it meets the same fate as the other restaurants that have been in the same location. They need to decide if they want to be a Cajun place or a BBQ and burger place....I say drop the Cajun food and stick with burgers.
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