This was a fantastic place to eat! If you are within hour or two it's a must! Out in the middle of nowhere where! Sherry, is amazing and has built a wonderful restaurant and they are celebrating their 40th year this year! YES 40 years. Her Blueberry Bread Pudding was amazing! BBQ Crab. The band was a lot of fun to hear as well! Cold Beer, great food and music. A lovely Owner and staff what else do you need. read more

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The food was so good! We were impressed! We went with a large group of people, and the server was on top of it! She did an excellent job. read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

Sweet Baby Jesus This place is YUM! This was out first sit down after closing on our new home! I would literally do questionable things for their frog legs.... ON GOD. This place is lively, fun, and the live music is everything! Would recommend 10 of 10. Let me not forget, the service is also wonderful! We will be back. read more

The food was great and the service was excellent!!! Would go there again!!! We went as a group of friends and this place is large!!

This place is awesome. Super friendly folks and airstrip onsite makes it a convenient stop for pilots. read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

Best Cajun Seafood I've ever had. We had mozzarella bites, alligator bites, and cocktail shrimp. All fresh and cooked to perfection. Then the gumbo was so flavorful and delicious. Then the seafood platter was fried perfectly and the catfish with étouffée was very tasty. Jordy was our server and she was on it! Very kind and pleasant. Never had to ask for a refill, she got me cocktail sauce very promptly twice and the place was packed. She has outstanding work ethic. Five stars read more

Absolutely outstanding food. The owner was very responsive on Facebook and happens to be a fellow pilot. He had recommendations of the blackened oysters which are insane and could probably finish 3-4 orders as an entree. Also had the BBQ crabs, and wife had the Bangin BBQ shrimp! It was all gone by the time we got done with it. The best part is if you're a pilot with a plane, there's a nice parking area adjacent to the car parking lot west of the north end of the grass runway. That runway is easily one of the best grass runways I've landed on. Very smooth and manicured and same goes for the parking area. Mind your prop blast taking off to the south on runway 21. I landed to the north on runway 3. Absolutely can't wait to come back. Most importantly, aside from being able to fly in, the prices were reasonable and the service was outstanding. We can't wait to come back. Thanks to the team at DI's. Y'all have another fan. read more

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This place always shows Southern Hospitality! The seafood is ALWAYS AMAZING! I always choose from a variety of these every visit because no matter what I order, the dish tastes great. This restaurant is probably the most successful true, mom-and-pop Cajun restaurant that is truly authentic. I've uploaded a photo of the Bayou Onion Blossom - Be prepared these things are HUGE! They're definitely ordered to share. The raw oysters are always good. The BBQ blue crabs might be my favorite thing to order during season. They're not what you would think though! They're not covered in bbq sauce at all. Just think of them as extremely seasoned crabs cooked on a pit (I'm assuming a pit). Any of the boiled seafood options are always great! The seasonal boiled crawfish is always well seasoned full of spicy goodness and boiled well. I've recently tried the BBQ Oysters due to the previous limited menu, and it surprised me how amazing they were! read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - Onion Bayou Blossom - Be prepared these things are HUGE! - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

If it's barbecue crabs you are looking for, you found the right place! My first time eating barbecue crabs and they were awesome! Friendly owner and staff, definitely worth the drive and prices are good too! read more

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Traveling through Jennings with a hotel stop, the desk clerk suggested this place. It's a wait to be seated but the food is well worth it. Very lively place with a band and dance floor. It's great for working off the meal you just had. We put this in our phone favorites for further stops while traveling this route. The staff is friendly and polite. The gumbo was delicious as was the seafood platter. read more

Yelp said they were open for lunch today. Left the house at 10 to get there around 11:30. Got behind a moving house, got there at 12:05. CLOSED. No longer serving lunch evidently. Lunch hours are scratched off their sign by the road. If you own a restaurant and you change your hours, update the WWW. read more

The food was on point and perfectly seasoned, great service, and the zydeco group playing was great

My family and I really enjoyed the live band -- The Cajun Stompers. They even let my little son practice playing the spoons and the triangle. As far as the food goes, I didn't care for the boiled crawfish; it was too dirty and gritty. I ordered a ribeye with etouffee and it was great, perfectly cooked. Blueberry bread pudding had a pleasant almond flavor and was a great way to finish the meal. read more

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Good food, cold drinks, and great Cajun music. We had a LARGE party for dinner and our server was a dream. The food was so good and the music . read more

Good seafood, excellent service; the Cajun band at weekends adds to the ambience. If you're a pilot, note their ~3,000' grass runway makes for a unique fly-in experience. read more

Prices were fair, drinks were ok (beers were cold but jack on the rocks was watery), food was good (go bbq and baked potato), but the server Chloe was fantastic. Attentive, fast, personable she literally made our night. We've had servers that were eh there but not this time. read more

This is our first trip to D.I.'s outside of crawfish season. We have been here more than ten times during crawfish season and have only ever ordered the boiled crawfish, crabs, gumbo and some appetizers. This time was different and we were not disappointed. The steaks are very generous in portion size and extremely flavorful. Mine was done a bit more on the medium well side and normally I'd have sent it back but I ate the whole steak without any other complaint. The venue is wonderful for live music on most weekends, but not all so call before going if that is your reason to go. Great for groups as well as very noisy children since it is a noisy establishments. If you do get the chance to have their crawfish order it, you will not be disappointed. read more

Prejudice. 10-15 minutes no waiter, no beverages, no welcome. A group of girls sit after me and my mother and within 5 minutes they have drinks and getting ready to order. We knew from the second we walked in, all eyes on us, I didn't even want to sit down, I felt so embarrassed. When we sit down, the people behind us wave down their waitress and ask for the to go box and their check which is triggering because they had just gotten their food... read more

My family and I were road tripping and we were hungry for authentic cajun food. We found that DI's stayed open later the most and decided to give it a try. It was a bit of a ways from the freeway and though it was a little but if a trek to get there I found the food well worth it. The restaurant had a "local favorite" vibe and I could see why. Their alligator bites were delicious and their gumbo was authentic and delicious!! My family had a 3lb order of crawfish and were not disappointed! Our waitress (Kate, or Katie I think) was attentive and friendly, making us feel at home! To sum it up, the restaurant was clean, the food was delicious, and the price couldn't be beat!! We'll definitely be returning on our next trip a few years from now! read more

Now this is a place worth finding! I had flown into SETX to see a girl I'd met online, she liked me and I liked her, so we had our first big date in this part of Louisiana. I'd read about D.I.'s, so I said, "Hey, let's go there." Then I thought I got lost trying to find the place. It was night, we were on 97, there was *nothing* out there, we were hungry, and I thought "man, she's not gonna think much of me now." And then, there it was: a bigger-than-normal restaurant set a little ways from the road, and the gravel parking lot was PACKED with cars and trucks. If you're there on the weekend, this is not just a place to eat. It's big and loud (as are many of the patrons), with lots of food at a reasonable price. Live Cajun music, and lots of people of all ages on the dance floor. If your idea of a date night is to eat fantastic food (I think I had alligator) and sweat it all off to top-notch music, then this is the place. If you want authentic atmosphere, then this is also the place. Some day I'll get back there . . . with that same girl . . . she and I have been married over six years now . . . maybe this time she'll dance with me . . . read more

This is my best friend's family's favorite Cajun restaurant. A little detour from I-10 on the way from Houston to Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, it's in the middle of nowhere amidst crawfish farms and rice fields. The staff is so small town and cute. Super friendly. Everything is available on the dinner menu for lunch except, unfortunately, the boiled crawfish. Fried crawfish, yes, but not boiled. On nights, they have live music and dancing and such as well - it's a pretty popular place. Our waitress told us about it (even though my best friend, who took me there, already knew) and said that they could open the sliding doors in front of the stage so we could take a look if we wanted to. We said that was okay, but I half expected to pull away the wooden "curtain" and find the Chuck E. Cheese/Showbiz Pizza robotic animals at their instruments. :P The fried crawfish was lightly crisp and addictive, as were the fried okra. The charbroiled oysters were huge (in size and in number) and came swimming, out of shell, in a lemony butter sauce with more butter to dip them in. They were so rich and there was so much of it that even with us helping, my famished friend could not finish them. A shame. Actually, none of us could finish all our food. Healthy place this is not. But for authentic no-frills country Cajun food and hospitality, this is it. And for locals' nightly entertainment, there is no other. read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - Fried crawfish and shrimp platter - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

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Not to many places to eat at in this city. I ate here during the summer of 2017. Decent food and service.

First time to try, recommended by a local. Everything seasoned perfectly and tastes so fresh. Atmosphere great with live music and service pretty good. I'd drive back from Houston to have it again. read more

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You wanna eat here. I put a period there and not a comma because you wanna eat here, period. Awesome seafood.

Its about 30 minutes into the middle of nowhere... They have live music on thursday-Saturday night...The food was good, waitress was nice (and nice looking)... I'd say if your in the area it's sort of a hidden gem. read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

The best boiled shrimp I have ever had. Everything was amazing. This is truly a hidden gem. Made the trip from Jennings and it was defiantly worth it!!!! read more

What I like about DI's is the music and dancing. I've only been there once and while the music and dancing was good, it wasn't good enough to make me like the two-hour experience trying to get a hamburger. The waitress took our drink order and then disappeared before we could say "We're ready to order food too." Once she came back with drinks she took the appetizer order and left again in a big hurry. We finally got to order our food and then after waiting an hour for it we told her we just wanted the check and we would just grab fast-food since they were so slow. Almost immediately a person I can only assume was the manager came over to lecture the table about how their food is cooked fresh and they are busy, etc ... (in other words, THEIR problem with planning is MY problem). She had our food with her and by that point we were so hungry we ate it in about 5 minutes and left. Everyone was shocked at having to sit through this long lecture and pointed out to her that every table around us had come in, ordered, eaten and left already. One final thought - the slow service prompted me to try several drinks from the bar just to pass the time. It was annoying that our waitress couldn't tell me what types of rum or gin they served. Slow with lousy service. I won't be back. read more

The drive to the restaurant takes you through the country where you will see scores of crawfish fields. The staff is delightful. The selection of Cajun dishes and seafood is great. I gave 4 stars because the dinner salad and salad dressing was embarrassingly basic and cheap tasting. Also, the seafood platter was aesthetically bland. Everything was fried (including the roll) and looked the same. The food was great however. Loved that they offered gator. I ordered the blackened gator. For $10, I thought I would have gotten more than I did. I was not there on a night they had music. That would have been a nice experience. All-in-all, Di is a great restaurant and worth the drive. It's clean and did I mention how great the staff is? (: read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - The boiled crab is a real winner. - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

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The waitress was great did not have to ask for anything. I have eaten at D.I.'s several times and have always loved the food until now. For an appetizer I got their version of devil's on horseback. Their version is shrimp wrapped in bacon then fried. The bacon was under done and very rubbery. The salad was lettuce with one piece of tomato. I got the seafood platter which had a lot of food. The baked potato came with sour cream, chives, and bacon but no butter. The flavors were mediocre. My mom got the half and half crawfish which is fried crawfish and crawfish etouffe. But the etouffe looked and tasted more like a creole. read more

Service sucked. Waited an hour to sit. Watched "friends" of the staff sit in minutes after walking in. Then waited 15 minutes for our waitress. Then another 45 for the food. We finally just asked if they could box it up. Ended up paying a small fortune for a poor experience. Ugh. read more

The best boiled crawfish ive ever had. Plus you can flyin to their grass runway. Service was awesome! ask for Cory's sauce. Don't forget the bread pudding! read more

Great seafood. My husband got boiled crawfish and I got grilled shrimp. Both were great. The salad is just ok but everything else is wonderful. We found this place from yelp... The only problem is the address is wrong on yelp. So we drive quite a distance further than originally thought. Still a nice meal. read more

I flew into DI's last week for lunch. They have a beautiful grass strip. Parking the plane was easy. The owner greeted me as I exited the plane. The food was great. The staff was helpful and courteous. I plan on making this a regular place to fly into and enjoy a good meal. read more

Living in South Texas now, I try and catch a good Cajun/Creole when I'm back in South Louisiana. Family living in Eunice suggested DI's. We were PLEASANTLY SURPRISED! Guess I didn't expect that level great food and entertainment so far off the beaten path... But actually that's most likely the reason for the top-notch food, service and live music/dancing: It's authentic in every aspect. I'll be taking the detour off I-10 to DI's now on every trip back. The boiled crawfish alone we're worth it. Usually restaurant boiled crawfish can't touch my home-boiled, but DI's was truly the best I've ever had. Dad tried the rack of ribs, they were just as perfect. read more

D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant - Enjoying ourselves at DI's restaurant. - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Basile, Louisiana

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Only in Louisiana could you find a packed Cajun Restaurant in the middle of rice and crayfish fields far out of town. Every bit worth the drive from anywhere you are. Highly recommend the blackened catfish supreme. Best damn catfish/crayfish combo I've ever had. read more

DI's restaurant is five miles from nowhere, a huge restaurant set in the middle of their own crawfish farm. Not surprisingly, they have the best crawfish I have ever tasted. There are no reservations, so there can be a wait. Usually, there is a cajun band for dancing. But on the night we visited there was the traditional cajun Mardi Gras chicken run. For pictures of the food and festivities see http://phoodphotospolitics.blogspot.com read more

This place is why I come to Louisiana. 5 lbs of crawfish, live cajun music, and in the middle of nowhere. My family was kind enough to take me to this place a second visit and I brought my immediate family with me this time. Took us forty minutes to get there but worth every second. Watching my sister and sister-in-law navigate their huge piles of crawfish made it even better. I can't wait for another visit. read more

Feels good to fall in love, and I am in love with everything about this restaurant. You might expect a restaurant review to start with something about the food, but not this time. The friendly, family oriented staff and guests make this place #1 on my list. We're visiting from North Carolina and went to D.I.'s two nights in a row. People, Music, Food... all as good as it gets! We had boiled crawfish, fried crawfish, grilled mushrooms, blackened oysters (ummmmm!) and some kind of homemade bread that is the best I've ever had. The food was delicious. The service was great. The entertainment (live Cajun bands and dancing) was what brought us here and it was just what I'd hoped it would be. But it was the friendly family oriented people that made this a mountain-top experience. Sherry, Brenda, Dee, Briggs, and the rest... I will never forget you! Thank you Thank you Thank you! read more

Was further off I-10 then map says by like 6-8 miles. Called ahead of time to make sure they were open. Pulled up at 4:30 on Saturday afternoon was aloud to sit at our table but was told they did not actually open until 5. So we were walked around and ignored by several women setting tables and folding napkins, yet there was a table in there with people eating already. At ten to five we were asked finally if anybody had waited on us. So we got our drinks and ordered our food by 5. My husband got the stuff Flounder and said it was bland and taste like it was frozen not fresh. My corn and crawfish chowder was very bland for being Cajun food. Has to be the worst Cajun food we have ever eaten. Only good thing I can say was that the boiled crawfish are huge and were really good. As the locals started coming in we noticed everyone was mainly having the crawfish, lol. Will not go back!! read more

This place is the best true Cajun experience one could have. The raw oysters were so fresh you could actually taste the salt water in them whereas most oysters are processed and lose this authentic flavor. The boiled crawfish were hands down the best And I've had them everywhere. The music brought an energy that lacks in a lot of dining experiences. Brought back memories of my grandparents who loves Cajun music. To see long lasting strong love like that on the dance floor was a blessing. And our waitress, Britney, was the best! Very sweet and attentive. Did not slack one bit so if you get her, tip her well! We drove about an hour from lake Charles and will definitely be doing that again. We had friends from Italy visiting the U.S. For the first time and absolutely loved it. Well worth a drive! Thank you guys so much! read more