Love visiting the spice and tea exchange when I'm in town. No place better to shop for tea and…read moretheir custom blends are incredible. Nice friendly knowledgeable employees also help make the shopping experience easy.

I love a good Yerba Mate and there are plenty to choose from here at the Spice and Tea Exchange of…read moreWest Monroe. The spices smell phenomenal and make me want to up my cooking game. There is so much to explore and the service is excellent. If you're not sure of what you want, they will help to point you in the right direction.

Good quality meat. You can also get sliced and cut to your…read moreliking. Highly recommend. I posted 2 photos of some items we purchased from here. The Steaks and ribs were fantastic. The photos don't justify. The meat wasn't all fatty on either one. High Satisfaction with these purchases.

Cool lil staff, trying to see what the hype is over the smoked sausage. Their "Down home" smoked…read moresausage was not too bad. But if you want some good smoked sausage, go to Super 1 Foods, they have a boat load of cajun and creole cooking ingredients.

This is the place to eat! Employees are very friendly,…read moreexplained the menu and gave suggestions. The food was superb. Indoor and outdoor seating. Average portions. 2 sides with a meat plate and comes with a pickle and bread. I got half chicken, baked beans & fries.

I'm visiting from Los Angeles and wanted some Louisiana BBQ -- this was the spot that popped up on…read moreYelp as number 1. It brisket, chicken and sides were delicious!!! Customer service was A-1 -- even the customers were kind! The ambiance was great! I will definitely comeback when I visit Monroe!

Let me start off by saying I LOVE chicken cracklings. Being from Mississippi, we don't really have…read morespots that sell them fresh like Louisiana does. So whenever I'm passing through, stopping at Billy's Boudin & Cracklin or Randall's Cajun Foods is a must for me. I went to Randall's today. About 5 months ago, I stopped in and the cracklings had clearly been sitting for a while, they were tough. I explained my concern and even offered to pay extra just to have a fresh batch cooked. After going back and forth, they finally made them fresh, and they were exactly what I wanted. Fast forward to today, I called ahead and specifically asked for fresh cracklings. The young man on the phone said okay, no problem. I walk in 5 minutes later and there's already a bag waiting. I asked where they came from and she told me they were cooked that morning. That was an immediate no for me. If I'm spending $21 for a pound, I don't want tough, sitting all day cracklings. Go ahead and put those back. I ended up trying the boudin balls, big mistake. You could tell they had been sitting too. At that point, I didn't even have the energy to go back and forth or ask for a manager. Honestly, it should be a given. This picture is pepper jack boudin ball. Look how dry it is . Needless to say, I won't be back.

We ordered earlier this week a prime rib to serve 14 people that are due over for our family…read moreChristmas dinner. The order was to be ready today Dec 27th at 10:00 We just got a call at 9:01 and were notified that there is no meat! I want the public to know that this place is not one to order meats from! We now have 4 hours to come up with something for our family. Family members coming in from LA and Shreveport. You certainly can not depend on this place. Also last week we bought a chicken and dumpling casserole that was horrible! Only dark meet was used! Please do not confuse this company with Randall' Captain Averies on Ferrand. The company that gave the poor service is Randall's on Sterlington Road. This owners purchased this place two years are.

New and improved store. Had the best deli meat in town, and they have a very fresh veg department,…read morevery friendly cashiers

Absolutely the cleanest grocery store around. Everything is neat and well organized. Good sales and…read morevery nice meat department. Staff is friendly. Deli is awesome.

Customer service is excellent. They have a lot of great products. I'm so glad I stopped here.read more

Best craft beer section in Monroe so far. Fresh dates on beer like Ghost in the machine. Also they…read morehave Jester King.

This place was a fantastic find for lunch on the drive back to Texas. Their Bahn Mi is a little…read morepricey but worth the price. The chicken breast was tender and seasoned well. I also tried the fresh rolls and those were delicious! Fresh and flavorful. My son loved them as well! We ordered online and our order was ready promptly at the time estimated. The shop itself is a good size located in an older strip mall.

As a Vietnamese person, and someone who used to work at a pho shop -- plus my family owned a…read morebusiness -- I understand how hard and difficult it is to open and run a restaurant here as an immigrant. Because of that, I usually don't write bad reviews. But I'm writing this because I genuinely want the owner to read it and understand. I love my culture and our food, and everywhere I go I always try Vietnamese restaurants. I chose this place because it looked like a mom-and-pop shop, and I really like supporting local businesses. We dined in during lunchtime, and it wasn't very busy, so we got seated right away. We ordered: - Rice with Grilled Beef: it tasted good and the portion was decent. We added a fried egg on top for $2.45. Everything was okay, but the color of the pickled vegetables didn't look fresh to me. - Vermicelli with Grilled Shrimp, Pork, and Egg Rolls: also a decent bowl, no big complaints. But I asked for no bean sprouts, the server repeated it to confirm, and it still came out with bean sprouts. Now here's the part that really disappointed me. Everywhere I've been, when you order a rice plate, it usually comes with a small side of soup. This place didn't, so we decided to order one. I knew we would be charged for it, and that's fine. But $8 for a small bowl of beef broth -- barely around 4 oz -- is honestly outrageous. I understand pho broth takes a lot of time, effort, ingredients, and experience. I respect that. But this? This didn't feel reasonable at all. I'm not expecting anything to be given for free just because I'm Vietnamese and I speak Vietnamese when I order. Even if they offered, I wouldn't take it. That's not the point. The point is, I felt really disappointed -- because this is my own people, and it made me feel like I got taken advantage of by my own people. I'm speaking up like this not to bash a small business, but because I want them to understand: every dollar customers spend is money they work hard for. You shouldn't take advantage of that or use excuses to raise prices like this. And what made it worse is that I've heard from locals who've been there and personally know the owner that "they only do that to people from out of town." That honestly made me even more upset. You might make extra money from one visit, but you lose trust permanently.