Buster’s Soul Food

I had my very first shrimp poboy here. I have to agree with most of the comments regarding this joint. For starters, the place is dirty has a lot of weirdo drunks, bad service by some smug old man and sub par food. I cam back twice because I am weirdthatway. It was ickier the second time. Just stay on the streetcar=====keep on goin. Not worth getting off for, even if it is to get out of the rain.
Maria Dziubla ~ Crescent City ~ weekender ~

Buster’s is just strange.
There are no apparent rules, but that’s okay because I can free-​form it a little bit.
The nice man with the funny glasses made my food appear post-​haste. The drunk man at the bar sang songs to me and told me all about the neighborhood. The woman in the white crocheted hat wandered behind the bar several times for dixie cups. I just sort of sat there, looking stupid.
The food was nice. Eating it in my apartment was nicer.

This place was hideous. I was raised down south and love nothing more than good soul food. My husband and I took a ride on the St. Charles Street Car and stumbled upon Busters with a huge sign proclaiming «SOUL FOOD». We figured it was worth a shot. It wasnt. It was a musty dim lit nearly vacant bar at best. The menu was bleak offering gumbo and a pulled pork sandwich with not much else. They were both edible but nothing special.
Mostly I felt jipped for falling for the false advertising. Steer clear of this dump. You’ll thank me for it.

Not the best I’ve had at all. Just uninspired really. I think the St. Charles location reels in the visitors like me. Sausage and chicken were entirely too salty. Good greens, good cornbread, very warm service.

I admit, I was a little nervous when I walked in because it was a dark, bar looking place. Before I turned to run out, Donovan (bartender)greeted me ever so sweetly and ushered me in. I was hooked and could not get free!
I had the Red Beans and Rice with a side of mustard greens and cornbread. MMM-​MMM good!!! The food was excellent and I was as happy as a pig in slop!
I don’t give it five stars because some chick was smoking like a chimney and had a mouth to boot! But once again Donovan was SUPER nice as were his other patrons who helprd me with directions back to my hotel. Go here… you won’t be disappointed!

I wanted to run into st. Charles and get myself hit by a car when I ate here. Food was lame, low quality, tourist crap.

We just ate at Buster’s this afternoon. Stay away. There is nothing positive to note about this place.
We walked in out of the rain a couple hours prior to the St. Pat’s parade in the Garden District. There was not much of a crowd. My wife and I only wanted a bite to eat. There was no wait staff and no direction on how the place operated. Luckily, a couple already seated explained that you had to go to the bar up front, place your order, then take the order slip the bartender gives you to the kitchen window in the back. Many thanks to that couple… how could we possibly have guessed that process.
We went back to the tables only to realize all the tables were dirty; dishes, not wiped down, etc. on all of them. We cleared our tables, moving garbage to another dirty table, and wiped it down with a napkin. We then scavenged the only ketchup bottle with anything in it (¹⁄₃ full).
The shrimp po-​boy was on stale french bread and mediocre at best.
It hard to find a place without at least one redeeming factor but it seems we did.

Oh. My. God.
My experience at Buster’s can’t be any farther from the previous reviewer.
I only went in there because I recently moved pretty much right around the corner from there. The menu is pretty much your standard New Orleans «tourist» food (gumbo, jambalaya, po-​boys, etc), but with some variations you don’t usually see.
I went in and I ordered the smothered pork chop platter (2 pork chops, mashed potatoes & gravy and 2 side items). DEE! LISH! Seriously. The meat was so tender, it fell off the bone. It was perfectly seasoned. Juicy. Mmmmm. I’m salivating as I write this just remembering how good this was. The platter came with a generous helping of mashed potatoes and gravy. And that gravy was SO GOOD. They also put tons of grilled/​carmelized onions on the side.
But what’s really did it for me is that all platters come with 2 side items. I ordered the macaroni and cheese and the jambalaya. Now, that was some bomb-​ass macaroni! I mean, if I had to rate all macaroni & cheese I’ve ever had on a scale from 1 to 10, this would be a 9.5 (my grandmother makes the best). I think it’s terrible that I live around the corner from this place, because I WILL put on weight.
The jambalaya… eh, I’ve had better. It was a little too tomatoey (I’m just making up words tonight) for me, but it was still ok.
And the best part— all of that (it was basically a standard take-​out box FILLED with food) for only $ 10.
My roommate is an extremely picky eater and when I took the first bite of my food, I told her she HAD to try it. I almost had to fight her to get my food back!
This soul food is pretty close to the way my grandmother cooks, so I’d call it pretty authentic. The only thing I regret is not trying their greens and cornbread. But I’ll definitely be back, so I know I’ll get around to it.

My fist po-​boy in the south was here. Service was not very professional, and food was just OK. I would not go back. That is what I get for attending a chain of some kind (supposedly some kind of franchise owns it).
This is the restaurant in the Garden district. I just do not have their address.