A friend and I were driving from Houston to NOLA and found this little place on the way. Â "Mini seafood platter" is a complete misnomer......a lot of food for a very affordable price! Â The gumbo is better than average and their home made dressings really made me a fan of this place. Â Great wait staff!
Review Source:If you're looking for the Denny's of cajun food, Â you've found your place with Cajun Tales. Â It simply isn't very good. Â I had the crawfish platter. Â It included boiled crawfish (it was soft and mushy,) crawfish etouffee (their etouffee is wrong, just wrong,) crawfish in a pastry (this was good, but unfortunately had the etouffee sauce poured over top,) and fried crawfish (this was the only dish of the four that was acceptable.) Â It also came with gumbo which I had to season to give it any noticeable flavor. Â Â I was very disappointed. Â It most definitely wasn't worth the calories!! Â BUT, if you must stop, I'd recommend a burger.
Review Source:So we were looking to try something local and authentic, and my guess is that this is close. Â We went for lunch in the middle of the week and the parking lot was packed. Â As soon as we stepped in, it was clearly a locals place because we stuck out like a sore thumb.
We ordered the fried gator and the crawfish etouffee, both were really good and I could tell they were cooked fresh. Â
The server was the sweetest woman - we told her we just wanted to try something new and she just HAD to have us try three dishes from the buffet because she was so eager to share the local cuisine. Â We tried the seafood pasta (no pasta in there really, just seafood and cream! YUM!), fried catfish and a rice dish. Â All three were really good, so I'd recommend just getting the buffet if you stop by - it was $10 or $11 dollars and most everyone that came in seemed to go for the buffet.