Where to start with this review. It was such a mixed bag. The place was emasculate. One of the cleanest dining establishments I’ve eaten in. The décor was cute, complete with a faux cabin. The employees were nice. The gumbo was really good. A light rouex, lots of chicken and full of flavor. The jambalaya was mixed. It was well cooked, nice dark rouex, lots of pork and sausage, but it was lacking flavor. I added lots of hot sauce. The salad was seved dry, with no dressing. The Boudin nuggets were aweful. Overcooked and served with a packet of cheap restaurant BBQ sauce. The crawfish pies were Barbie size, dry and lacked flavor as well. All I tasted was the crust. The white beans were well cooked, but were also lacking any flavor. I’d go back for the gumbo and would give the jambalaya another try.
Ashley M.
Classificação do local: 1 Baton Rouge, LA
Gumbo awful and so is that rude little cashier. Tiff who worked there for a while I’d very kind and live her hair. The new young girl is very rude, can’t talk right she mumbles, and looks like her brain is fried on taking to many drugs. Service bad and fos is ok.
Blake G.
Classificação do local: 2 Baton Rouge, LA
I really want to like this place because they’re so nice and the service is great; but the food is just sub-par. We’ve tried so many times and it just is always middle of the road.
Michelle S.
Classificação do local: 2 Baton Rouge, LA
Really not a fan. they were out of gumbo when we ordered. Small portion, we ended up getting the jambalaya and boudin and both are not very good. The crawfish pies are more like little fried crawfish dumplings which tasted ok but a bit greasy.
Madeline S.
Classificação do local: 1 Hummelstown, PA
We arrived 20 minutes before their posted closing time on the door and online, and they refused to help us. They just kept insisting they were closed, even though we had driven all the way there and they still had the door open. I was very upset with the level of service, given they would not help us with a to go order and the personnel were standing right there.
Chris C.
Classificação do local: 2 Geismar, LA
This location is not as good as the others. At least on the occasion I visited, the jambalaya had very little sausage, was dry and sort of lukewarm. Eerily similar to the way jambalaya usually tastes after nuking leftovers.
Charles H.
Classificação do local: 1 Baton Rouge, LA
The cook has a different style for gumbo, jambalaya and white beans than what I had come to love. The gumbo is light brown and doesn’t have the same taste. The white beans are too hard. Previously they were soft. The jambalaya is not as flavorful. Perhaps the chef is different than the one that was there before. They always had the gummy biscuits, which I would’ serve to anyone but which seem so popular in Louisiana. The salad and salad dressing never had any character but then no one goes there for the salad. I will only go every year or so to see if they have a new cook.
Emily M.
Classificação do local: 4 Baton Rouge, LA
I actually really like the Jambalaya Shoppe – and I am one picky customer when it comes to certain Southern foods like jambalaya. After having it once at a party with friends, I ordered it for a couple’s shower I was throwing, alongside some potato salad and a mixed greens salad. All of it was very tasty, and they packaged it very well, so as to ensure it stayed warm for hours before the party. Everyone seemed to enjoy it a lot – lots of meat(chicken and sausage) and really good flavoring. We also liked the potato salad – added a little Tony’s seasoning on my own to «perfect» it;) I would order from them again, for sure.
Kat G.
Classificação do local: 2 New Orleans, LA
No. No, no, no. Mediocre jambalaya, bagged iceburg salad, and a gumbo that was not a gumbo — no roux, no trinity, but broth with the pallor and thickness of nursing home chicken soup. I will say the cashier was nice, and it’s a good concept — I mean, a bucket of food is simultaneously gross and really, really practically awesome, but the quality isn’t anything I’d come back for.
Nicole H.
Classificação do local: 1 Baton Rouge, LA
Don’t. Do. It. Avoid hearing me say«I told you so» in your head later. Seriously. The service is just fine, heck… its even good. But the food. Its just… barely edible. The gumbo is a farce, and to say that in south Louisiana is ridiculous. There is no flavor, no good seasoning, and certainly no roux to speak of in this dish. I would be willing to give them a pass on the gumbo, since its called the Jambalaya Shoppe. I mean, they never professed to make a good gumbo. And far be it from me to force a review on someone based on anything but their claim to fame. Which brings me to their jambalaya. Really? Dry meat, very little jambalaya-type seasoning, and rice that looked like it had been cooked yesterday and left out. It just wasn’t worth opening that creepy plastic bucket. Just…don’t. Save yourselves. You’re better off with some frozen Stouffer’s version.
Lisa N.
Classificação do local: 4 Fairfax, VA
Hands down, the best jambalaya I’ve ever had! They use a darker rue and the texture is softer than others that I have had, but I love it, especially the pieces of sausage! They have a spice stand so make sure you get lots of Tabasco sauce. The pork and crawfish boudin are tasty as well. A bit chewy but still soft in the inside =) The mini fried boudin balls were just OK. We tried the seafood gumbo as well and I was disappointed. It was watery and basically only had shrimp in it. I’ll definitely come back and get more jambalya and pork boudin!
Bethany F.
Classificação do local: 3 Baton Rouge, LA
1st time eating here. It was good! I am a picky true cajun eater. The Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya was very good! However, the gumbo, had alot of Chicken fat in it! ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh– I have a weak stomach! so, I did not eat it, but that didn’t discount the taste of the Jambalaya. I would eat here again, NO gumbo though!