Cordon Bleu

So I decided to give different Haitian restaurants a try. Especially since there is two very good Haitian restaurants literally next door to this place. Umm I wasn’t feeling the food. It tasted like a beginner was cooking this and it was a lot more price wise than Las Vegas. They’re portions are also a lot less, such a rip off! The customer service was horrible. They wait till you come to them to order. Like I came in to stand there for my health. They were playing Hispanic music when its a Haitian restaurant. I mean they were just confused. Yea I definitely wont come back there! There are two of the best Haitian restaurants in Boston literally right across the street! This place just needs to just shut down and call it a day! Horrible food and Horrible service.

I had the opportunity to have lunch with my mother and my friend a couple of days after Christmas. Boy did we have a great time! I ordered griot (fried pork) with black mushroom rice, my mother ordered lambi (conch) with white rice and bean sauce, and my friend ordered fried chick with rice and beans. The food was delicious!
It did take a little while before we got our food; however, as stated previously by one of the reviewers, this indicates that they were preparing fresh food for us. While we waited, the man sitting behind the counter played Haitian music for us. The waitress also let us sample fried Haitian patties made with herring; spicy but scrumptious!
I highly recommend this restaurant! As a matter of fact, I plan on returning there next month with a group of ten friends for dinner.

Rude!
I don’t often walk through Cleary Sq even though I live 5 mins away but yesterday I caught the Fairmont Line so the train dropped me off on the other side of Hyde Park, and therefore I had to walk 10 mins through Cleary Sq to get home. So I decided to stop in at some restaurants, take a peak at their menu, talk to them about vegetarian options, etc. I want to support local businesses so I figured this was my chance to engage with them.
I went to 3 restaurants — two of which were very friendly and helpful, and 1 which was not — and that is this one.
I have always been intrigued by their name and their blue awning, so figured I’d get to know them. I walked in the place around 6:30pm, there were no customers (aka they were not busy). As soon as I walked in, the woman sitting behind the bar closest to me gave me the look of death. Seriously — if her eyes could kill, I’d be dead. I don’t know what her problem was — was it the fact that I have blond hair and blue eyes and I’m going into a restaurant like this? Who knows. Then I asked her for a menu and there were like 6 things on it — all meat. So I said do you have vegetable dishes? And she said No, nothing. And that was that. No engagement, no offer to make me anything, nothing. It was like more like go away white girl and don’t come back.
But obviously they do have some vegetable dishes as I see from the reviews below — beans and rice, plantains, etc. It’s sad she wasn’t willing to talk to me about vegan options, or even welcome me to the restaurant. None of the other staff said anything either — and there were 3 people there just sitting around.
Hyde Park is a very diverse neighborhood and groups/​organizations in the area are doing a great job bringing people together, celebrating diversity/​our community, etc. Unfortunately Cordon Bleu is anti all of this with their attitude and close-​mindedness.

This place is about half a mile down the road from my digs in Hyde Park… we went out kind of late for dinner, thinking we’d go here or the Jamaican place or the African place around the corner, but this was the only spot still open.
We weren’t entirely sure they were still open, but they assured us we could come in and sit down to eat.
Their menu is very simple — only about a dozen items, in French/​English. I ordered the Poisson (I was advised it would take about 20min — LOVE that it was fresh, not sitting in a chafing dish or something), my other half ordered the Legume/​Beef stew, and we sat and watched a strange community channel in Creole French. (at one point, they changed it to something in English — we asked them to change it back so we could hear the language!)
Our food came out — the beef stew first — with a platter of plantains and veggies, and this SUPER spicy sauce (someone FINALLY listened when we said we liked spicy food and we weren’t kidding!)…
My whole red snapper followed shortly — it was broiled in this tasty savory sauce with some veggies on top and salad, rice and platanos on the side. Both meals were fresh and delicious, and we got a chance to talk to the owner about her family and Haiti, which was super-​cool.
She also told us that they’ve applied for their liquor license, but it hasn’t been approved yet — they’ll have a full bar when it is — for now, we had champagne kolas and ginseng up.
It was a great overall experience — I can’t wait to come back and try it again once they’ve got their liquor license!