The food is decent but BUYER BEWARE-- this is a very DISHONEST place of business. I ordered a dozen gulf oysters and was charged $20, though the menu lists them as $12.99. When I brought this to the attention of my server, he shrugged and first told me I had ordered Blue Point oysters (not even on the menu). When I told him I was certain I had ordered gulf coast, he shrugged and said "we don't have gulf coast today, I guess maybe I should've told you about that" and walked off. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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The calamari tasted dry and the tomato sauce was just watery. For 11 dollars it was not worth it. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Fried Calamari - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

It's been awhile since I've eaten here. I don't normally make my way here but since my friend was in the area we decided to stop in for a late dinner. It wasn't busy so we got sat right away. Interesting enough, I was in need of a drink and behold.. a bottle of sake came to the table. Haha not complaining. Crawfish - it was a good mix size. But holy cow it's still $10.99/lb here and it's crawfish season! That's crazy but hey people have their cravings and willing to pay. Snowcrabs - these were huge! Very meaty and nicely seasoned. Salt toasted crab - these were my fave. Nicely battered and addicting. Haha yeah I always pick at the batter. Super tasty. Crabs were slightly overworked but very meaty. Overall it was a good dinner! Enjoyed it. Service was great. Got everything we needed. Left feeling very full and slightly tipsy, so it was a good time. read more

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This is now one of my favorite places to get crawfish. I ordered a 'No. 1 Fatass' & shared it with a friend. It was more than enough & I even took some to go cause we couldn't finish it all. We also ordered the crawfish bread for an appetizer & I had a pina colada daiquiri. Everything was so good & our server was very nice & attentive! read more

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I most definitely regret ordering DoorDash from here! People who complain about hospital food haven't eaten here. I gave two stars because the food was piping hot upon delivery but that's it. That's it! I ordered shrimp fried rice and chicken wings. Half of the chicken wings are BBQ and half are plain. I also ordered bread pudding. To start, you get a lot of rice in your order. Enough for 4 people. It had a good amount of shrimp in it but it was gross. It tasted gross and bland at the same. The shrimp wasn't spoiled. The rice just tasted odd and inedible. Bland as well. There was no doctoring the flavor. It was bad. Yuck! The plain chicken wings tasted like old grease. The BBQ chicken wings tasted like the plain chicken wings doused in barbecue sauce, which were not good. No bueno. To add insult to injury, I ordered bread pudding. Why, oh why did I do that!?? Think thin sliced bread dunked in milk and sugar and topped with whiskey sauce that tastes three days old. Not tasty at all. So disappointing because I really wanted to like this place. I at least wanted to enjoy my meal but alas, it wasn't meant to be. So disappointing! read more

Cajun Kitchen - Shrimp fried rice- yuck! - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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This is the 3rd time I've been here and by far the worst. Each experience seemed to go down in quality. The things they did wrong: Service was slow even though it was only 2-3 tables in addition to ours. NO crab legs. Came specifically for the crab legs. The ones they did have (snow crab) were $40/lb. Turney necks were dry and tasted reheated rather than freshly made. Margarita machine was still "warming up." Which means they don't get to their restaurant early enough to get everything ready, they get there when they open so if you want anything that may take time you'd have to wait. I ordered the garlic and crab noodles. Maybe it was the lack of crab legs or my hate for thick noodles, but they were subpar. Also, I could could the pieces of crab meat. Not a lot of it. Waiter nicely tried to box our leftovers but did it gloveless and became argumentative when a concern was raised. We had to keep asking for things and giving reminders over and over to get what we needed. The things they did right: Opened the doors and let us in. Needless to say, I will not be coming back! My first experience was DELIGNTFUL, the second was so-so and this one was down right horrible. It was also my BIRTHDAY dinner. Sucked, literally didn't get anything I wanted and wasted $60. read more

The food was really good we had 5 pounds of crawfish (Cajun w/ garlic butter spicy) with 4 corns and 2 potatoes, then we added on a pound of shrimp and 6 lemon pepper hot wings. Everything tasted amazing. I think they forgot to put in the order for our wings, but we reminded them and they came out shortly after. Will be back. (Right now crawfish is $9.99 a pound) read more

Cajun Kitchen - Crawfish - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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We ordered through Uber Eats. We had the kitchen special and garlic blend crawfish, curry snails and chicken cracklin. Not sure if it was an off day for them but the food was not good. The crawfish were bland and we could tell that they mixed in some frozen crawfish. It wasn't because we had delivery either as we are ok eating cold crawfish. The curry snails had a good flavor, but the snails were too small to eat them. I am talking too small to even fit a toothpick inside of the shell to reach the meat. The only option was to either risk hyperventilating sucking the pea sized meat out or crack the shells open with your teeth. Both options obviously not ideal. The chicken skin cracklins was pretty good though. There are SOO many good crawfish restaurants in Houston. This does not seem to be one of them. read more

Food is great Service is OK at best Took forever to get our order in and drinks took a while to come out but the food made up for it We got the Vietnamese oysters and they were 5/5 good First experience with crawfish and we got them medium but shoulda went with spicy The shrimp and snow crab legs were pretty good, might not get them next time as there was nothing special about them I would go with all crawfish (spicy) and oyster Vietnamese style next time! About 1-2lbs of crawfish per person if you wanna be stuffed to the gills leaving this place!! Soo good read more

Cajun Kitchen - Got the hungry man! Fills up two people!! - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

Service - bad. Once we were actually seated, it took about 15-20 minutes before our server came by for the first time to ask us for drink orders. Even though we made multiple crawfish orders for different people, they combined them into single bowls and didn't tell us, making it very confusing to eat and split. Food - great!!! The size of the crawfish were HUGE! I got the medium spice level and it was pretty hot. My lips were swollen after lol! Also the crawfish bread was cheesy and delicious - definitely recommend that! The Vietnamese nuoc mam wings were very flavorful too! read more

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This was my first time having this kind of crawfish! The Thai basil was really good, so much more flavorful than all the other crawfish boils I've had before. Really makes me regret all those pounds of crawfish I've bought from the front HEB over the years haha. We ordered Thai basil crawfish, garlic butter crawfish, tamarind crabs, and crab fried rice. The Thai basil crawfish was great and I loved the tamarind crabs too. Crabs were really crunchy had a good tang from the tamarind. The garlic butter crabs were mediocre in comparison to the Thai basil and the fried rice was fine but nothing special. Half of my cup for water was kind of greasy but it's understandable this kind of place I guess. It was also pretty expensive. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Thai basil crawfish - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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This place is a little farther down Bellaire so I don't come too often, but last night was great! I took some out of town family to eat here and we tried all three sauces. The house special was my favorite but they all tastes great in their own right, can't go wrong with any of them. Oyster Vietnam was simple but delicious, they were so fresh we had to order more! Their garlic noodles with crab is pretty good, but I would come back next time just for their crawfish. Thanks for your great service and recommendations :) read more

Cajun Kitchen - Crawfish: house special, Thai basil, and Garlic Butter - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

My gf wanted to eat oysters. So, we searched for a place nearby. What a gem this place is. It was very easy to find and park. The facility was clean and the service was friendly. The bathroom was clean too. We ordered a dozen oysters on the half shell, house special fried rice, and the fried basket combo, choosing catfish and crawfish. Everything was excellent, especially the fried rice. They did not skimp on the cha siu and seafood. It was a great deal. Will definitely return. read more

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Restaurant was nice and clean. They had covid standards and practices in place with social distancing tables and staff wearing mask. Staff was friendly. We ate on a Friday night and it wasn't too busy. Crawfish was small but tasty. The oysters were delicious!! Fried rice was yummy!! The only thing we did not like was the shaking beef. The meat thy use was extremely chewy and difficult to eat. Overall we had a nice dinner. read more

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I recently had a pound of shrimp,with corn and potatoes delivered. Garlic butter medium spicy. The delivery service was okay however the food was subpar, at least compared to a few years back. The shrimp was tasteless. And the garlic butter had no heat to it. It seems the shrimp was cooked separately and then stirred in a garlic butter sauce so it didn't have a chance to actually soak up the flavor. Same for the potatoes and corn. read more

Cajun Kitchen is a Vietnamese-Cajun fusion restaurant located near Chinatown in Houston. I came with a large group of five (plus three kids) for dinner, and was extremely impressed by the creative fusion dishes here. We started our meal with a bowl of the gumbo (which came with white rice)--the flavor of this dish was a little bit underwhelming and not particularly memorable. We then had the garlic noodles with real lump crabmeat, and it was amazing! The noodles were so flavorful but not greasy, and the texture and subtle flavor of the flaky crabmeat were the perfect complements. We also had the loaded fries, which were topped with turkey neck meat (what??), a flavored mayo/aioli, and a fried egg. This dish was also surprisingly delicious--the fries were nice and crispy, and the turkey neck meat was so tender, succulent, and flavorful--I never would have though to use turkey neck meat in anything, but this dish really impressed me. Finally, we had the "Fatass" combo to share--this combo came with two pounds of crawfish (which were unfortunately not in season and extremely tiny with very little actual meat), a half pound of jumbo shrimp (hearty and delicious), blue crab legs, corn, and potatoes. We also got an order of sausage on the side. We got this combo with "the Kitchen" special flavoring, which was spicy and delicious. Overall, while the seafood was good, I found the other dishes a whole lot more interesting and probably would stick with more of the other dishes if I were to come again. read more

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I love the kitchen special sauce for the crawfish. The crawfish is so fresh and plump here. The grilled oyster Vietnam was not bad either.

This place used to be good, but not anymore. The crawfish were not as fresh and good as I expected in Mid-late March. The tamarind crab was dried, and unflavored just like they fried the crab then poured the sauce over. The customer service is bad, if am not saying rude. They provided the needed services like give you drink, took your order, food came out on time....but not the pleasant restaurant service style. There was not a single smile from the servers the entire time., except the busboy whom I asked to take a picture for us(my husband's bd). If you are the kind of person just want OK-good food and don't care about the atmosphere, then you are fine. They had the buy 6 get 1lb free. We got 8 n they charged us 8, so we had to tell them. They adjusted that but no pleasant or nice word in sense of apology, matter of fact, he acted like we are annoying. They also charged us a coconut snail dish for $15.00. The thick black menu I saw was $10.50, so I asked has the price gone up, he brought out a new single sheet beige menu and showed us it was $15. That was fine but then the black menu needs to be adjusted please. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Crawfish n tamarind crab - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

I like that they have live crawfish in early June!! Their special house sauce is so gooooooooooood!! read more

Cajun Kitchen - 3 lbs. of crawfish with an order of potato's(3) and an order of corn (2) - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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Very nice lunch at Cajun Kitchen on Calle Real. Excellent blackened salmon with slaw, rice and cornbread. Good cheeseburger. Good Jambalaya and other Cajun treats. Server Leanna was great and attentive. Small place, pretty busy with a lot of obvious 'regulars.' Good bet for breakfast or lunch. Prices reasonable - not cheap, but worth it. I should add; I was happy to see Cholula among the condiments and Negra Modelo on the beverage menu. All good.a read more

Alright if I had to rate this place on service alone, it would get a 1 star because service is slow! Really really slow! So I hope you have a few hours because this is not a place you want to go to for a quick in and out. With that said, the venue is pretty new and clean and the decor screams seafood/crawfish restaurant with the nets and fishing hooks! There are TVs so it's a great place to watch the game, have a beer and munch on some crawfish. The food.. Yum! The crawfish were a mixture of sizes, some large and some smaller. The shrimp was huge and they have oysters, different crabs, etc. The kitchen sauce was different and includes lemon and orange flavors mixed in with their seasoning and garlic. I absolutely loved it! It was delicious and the crawfish was cooked well. The shrimp was overdone because it was hard to fill the shells off but still good. They have a fatass bundle and an XL fatass bundle that might be the better way to go.. XL included 5lbs of crawfish, 1lb of shrimp, crabs and corn and potatoes in your choice of sauce and spice level. We ordered that and then some for 4 people. The appetizers, crawfish bread was good. Not my favorite cause I thought it could be crispier but it was smothered with sauce on top. The crawfish puffs were yum! Crispy on the outside.. Small pieces of crawfish meat and a load of soft cream cheese on the inside.. I wish the crawfish was mixed into the cream cheese instead of sitting on top with the chuck of cream cheese on bottom, but it was still rich and delicious! The boudin balls had awesome flavors and were definitely not dry on the inside. I've had better but they do it pretty well here. We checked in through Yelp and got 5% off our entire bill! Make sure you get what you ordered! I think they tried getting away with less than a pound of shrimp.. We literally had ~8 of them.. Not a pound! But we said something and the manager brought out a few more. But come mon! I'm not sure if they weigh your order and you get the exact lbs you ask for so be careful. At least they tried to fix it. Will be back! Good crawfish! read more

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Pretty good crawfish place - though we came during off season so the crawfish were still on the smaller side. For 7 people, we got 7 lb crawfish half mild garlic butter and half medium kitchen special. Definitely should have made it more spicy though. The crawfish was amazing!! They were drenched in sauce and super flavorful. The kitchen special was definitely a good choice. In addition, we got 1 1b shrimp, 6 Thai oysters, 6 viet oysters (which is cooked), onion rings, garlic crab noodles, 6 lemon garlic chicken wings, 6 crispy chicken wings and a bucket of 6 premium beers. We had also ordered the cluster of snow crab but they had forgot it so we just cancelled the order. It was still plenty of food for us. Overall, everything that came out was delicious and the oysters definitely had a unique spin to them. All the seafood was very fresh and our waiter was great! read more

Cajun Kitchen - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

Ordered the shrimp,crawfish and a couple more items and it was one of the most delicious/freshest seafood Id have ever had in the houston area definitely recommend this spot to people who love amazing seafood with great and attentive staff. read more

Had a bad experience here but management reached out and rectified the situation. They do care about their customer experience which is highly appreciated. We will be back for some more Cajun food. read more

Today is June 24th and this place is already selling frozen crawfish. This is the 3rd time I order here and every time they mixed it with frozen crawfish. Can someone remind them that it's still crawfish season. I've been eating and working with crawfish for 35 years now. I know what frozen crawfish taste like. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Frozen crawfish in the height of crawfish season, why? - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

Excellent food service is very fast Everything was delicious. Fresh out of the sea four different flavor to choose from. Price is reasonable read more

The food is garbage I ordered a Cajun gumbo with chicken and sausage it only had four slices of sausage and three little bitty pieces of chicken the rest was all nothing but chicken broth or whatever broth it was I want a refund I am so upset this place needs to get my complaint to the better Business bureau which I'm going to do I need my refund, also the bread was hard as a rock, I am personally going tomorrow going to file my complaint directly with them read more

We got the crawfish takeout special delivered last week, along with blue crabs, beer, and onion rings and fried okra. We had to recrisp the rings and okra in the oven, but that was easy, and they were delicious. Blue crabs were perfectly cooked, and the crawfish were huge and tasty. We got the Kitchen Special sauce. They will make it as spicy as you like. Will definitely be ordering again! There was no charge for delivery, but we tipped the guy $40. Gotta do what you can. read more

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Very disappointing. We've orders here many times and although the restaurant is notorious for inconsistency in quality there we once a time they produced amazing food. Those days are long gone. Which is why we keep coming back. Other times, hoit's overcooked, too spicy or not spicy enough (inconsistent spice levels) or simply not fresh ingredients. Today they have really outdone themselves by dishing out rancid fish and crawfish. Took one bit of the fried catfish and spit it right back out. Even then I thought Ok well that's unfortunate. Then I took a bite of the crawfish and my gawd it was awful. Same rancid disgusting mess. Even after spitting out the food the rancid taste lingered in my mouth. I shared this meal with two other who share the same disappointment. Never coming back here again. We're traumatized. read more

The thing I love about Cajun Kitchen is that you can tell they put a lot of work into their food! Being in the food industry myself I appreciate it so much! The kitchen special crawfish is so delicious! All of the spices and seasonings are a perfect combo of citrus meets sweet, & so much flavor! Some of the best Viet Cajun crawfish. Corn and potatoes were yummy as well. First time trying the chefs special fried rice, it was so bomb! It comes with Chinese sausage, pork, chicken, shrimp + crawfish. I've fried many different fried rice platters from other restaurants, nothing compares to theirs. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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We went to this place because my dear cousin recommended. No disappointment! Crawfish tasted so good . We order medium spicy .Scallop crudo is so fresh . Fried rice is good too . Big size. read more

I Found This Place On Uber Eats. They Have Some Really Good Food. Their Boil Seafood: Crawfish Shrimp Crab Legs Corn Potatoes Are My Favorite. Their Turkey Necks Are Good But I Usually Ask Them To Cook Longer Cause It Still Be Kinda Tough. Their Fried Seafood Baskets And Chicken Wings Are So Good & My Usual but I Just Tried The Fried Rice a Few Months Ago. They Have Really Good Specials. The Best Thing About This Place Is Most of All Their Seafood Is Fresh Not Frozen. The Service Is Awesome. Everybody Is So Chill & Nice. They Are On Instagram To See More of Live Seafood. This My Favorite Spot On SW Houston. read more

I went to Cajun Kitchen to grab lunch, and I thought my gumbo was very good--great flavor and tasty, rich broth. The two reasons I don't give Cajun Kitchen a higher rating were that the service wasn't very friendly, and the restaurant smelled like fish, in a bad way (maybe it's the fish tanks?). read more

4 - Boudin Balls - thin, crispy breading 3 - French Fries - could be crispier 2 - Fried Chicken 3 - Fried Crawfish 3 - Wings, BBQ honey 4 - Wings, Cajun Note: wings have 'naked' style breading read more

This is quite pricey for crawfish especially when you have to order sides (staple potatoes and sausage) ala carte! The current market price for 1pound is $8.99 but $9.99 if you want the thai basil or kitchen flavor. They also charge for extra garlic which other places do not. I came with 3 friends and we got seated fairly quick on a Sunday night around 7:30pm. It was crowded but service was terrible. We ended up ordering 2 bowls of three pounds of the kitchen flavor for two of the guests and two pounds of garlic and two pounds of kitchen. They first delivered the three pound kitchen crawfish then ours two pound of garlic came out. The other two pounds of kitchen came out about 10 minutes later. 15 minutes in we're still waiting for my friends three pounds of kitchen and after letting our server (or multiple servers) know, it's like they didn't remember and said they would check back with the kitchen. They never came back. 20 minutes in, we had to call the server back and let them know we still hadn't gotten the order. We told the lady server that if the order didn't get processed yet, to cancel because we didn't want to wait especially since we were almost done eating. The lady comes back and tell us the order slip "must have fallen" and that they can cancel the order since it didn't go through yet. This is terrible customer service in my opinion! All they could do is give an apology and then another server puts an empty bowl in front of my friend as an extra bowl for us to put the shells in. It was ironic and sad at the same time for my friend. Other restaurant managers or staff I know would have gone through with the order, comped it or gave something else. My friend was hungry and for him to wait and watch us eat our crawfish was just wrong. I wasn't amazed by this place. The crawfish was not large, they even charge if you want a bigger crawfish size so I see this place like delta and spirit airlines. Nickeling and diming you for everything. As for the flavors, the kitchen is not that special. It's just a bunch of spices, citrus to make it sweet and onions. It was a little sweet for me. The garlic was just ok even as a medium, it'll make you sweat. Instead of the garlic flavor being on the outside of the shell, the crawfish barely took on any garlic flavor itself unless I dipped it back into the sauce. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

This place has been my go-to crawfish spot for years now, and they never disappoint. While the prices are a bit higher than most of the crawfish/seafood spots you may visit, the extra cost is definitely worth it for the quality of food you'll be getting. The crawfish are always big, clean, fresh, and pack tons of flavor. The Thai basil sauce is a MUST, but I've also done the cajun, garlic butter, and the kitchen special, and they're all winners. (Extra spicy if you're feeling adventurous- but beware!) I've eaten in, had it delivered, and have taken it to go, and the quality and flavor is always consistent! read more

Cajun Kitchen - Thai basil in the back- Kitchen special up front - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

Just eh. Picked up a to go order of crawfish because I've heard great things about this place. Got extra spicy and garlic, it wasn't very spicy or garlicky lol. It wasn't bad just not amazing. The people working were nice and attentive and it was pretty crowded, so worth giving a shot! read more

Good place for crawfish. There are a lot of tables inside, but it can get very crowded at times. Parking is not hard to find. I ordered the kitchen special seasoning with medium spice. It is slightly sweet and is more on the asian side. The flavor is amazing, and the crawfish are big and juicy. I usually like some spice to my food, and the medium spice made my lips even plumper and naturally red, so beware of the spice level if you can't handle a lot of spicy foods. I really enjoyed it though. You can order mild and add the spice yourself. I also tried their bowl of gumbo, which came with a scoop of white rice on top and their lemon pepper wings. Both were very good. Service was not bad, but the wait was extremely long to get our food, so be prepared to wait. I'm not sure if it was just a bad night or the wait is usually long after you order, but still worth coming back for because I liked the food. read more

Cajun Kitchen - Gumbo - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Houston, Texas

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This was my favorite crawfish places in Houston about 3 years ago, but as of right now, it is not as delicious anymore. Either there are so many new crawfishes places that have better recipes or the quality here went downhill. I usually ordered kitchen special crawfishes. Kitchen special flavor has a blend of garlic butter and citrus. The last time I was here, I was not impressed but disappointed. It was too oily and sour. If you are on Bellaire and want to eat crawfishes, I think Crawfish Cafe would be a better choice. read more

10/10! Now my favorite crawfish spot. Flavor was , spicy was ACTUALLY spicy! Service was and the restroom was actually clean!