Super excited to see a place with Cajun roots in town. Called to see if they were open and who was the culinary influence. Lackluster effort from the person answering. Stupefyingly he did not know what a Cajun was. After I repeated the question of who is influencing the food, he guessed it was his boss.
Drove to Redmond and tried it anyway. Ordered the fried oysters and the peel and eat shrimp and crawfish.
$30
Food came up quickly.
Here's the review :
I'll start with a good.
Six decent size shrimp. Freshly boiled. Tender. Good spice.
Next were the oyster niblets. 10 of them. Ok. Looked like they were prepared by Sysco in a factory in Wisconsin.
Decent but not great. Dipping sauce was good. Saved the day.
Six juvenile crawfish with no flavor were tough, dry and flavorless. Wife and I each had one and didn't.want any more. We pushed ourselves through another one, but I was offered the last one. I said you couldn't pay me to eat more.
Rule of thumb if you work for somebody, you better get some cheerleading training and be excited about both answering the phone and telling people about your place, and your offerings.
Rule two: people are not stupid just cause they're a long way away from where good food is prepared and served. At the very least you shouldn't plan on that as a business strategy.
$15 should get you a pound and a half if not, 2 pounds of nice spicy hot crawfish with corn and potatoes. If we divide the price of the shrimp and crawfish and half, you should've at least gotten a fair 3/4 lb serving of delightful Mudbugs.
And don't tell me you're too far from Louisiana to get fresh crawfish. I do it all the time. These are frozen Chinese crawfish.
Recommendation: keep moving.
-A Born & Bred Cajun read more
