Jester Express

Slow business was slow and I had to repeat my drink order like 5 times. Once I got it, it took 30 for one drink, will not be coming back over here and plus the drink was way way over priced

Coffee was sour and jugs were empty. Was able to fill half a cup then had to wait 5 minutes for fresh coffee that was no better than the stale coffee.

The restaurant options in B Concourse are pretty thin, so this is where we had lunch yesterday while awaiting our flight home. The other sit-​down options were a noisy bar or a crowded food court w/​the Praline Connection Restaurant, an ice cream place and Subway. Subway??? WTF?! There may have been other eat-​in options beyond gate B9, but we didn’t walk farther than our gate and we didn’t want to take out food to eat in the gate area. Food at Jester is cooked to order, so that seemed promising. Alan had a cheese steak, Sherri had a grilled chicken sandwich, Ron had a hamburger and I had a fried shrimp salad. Alan also picked up a fruit salad for us to share. Ron and Alan described their sandwiches as «OK» w/​o enthusiasm. Sherri said her chicken was dry. My shrimp salad was pretty good. You can’t go far wrong w/​fried shrimp, after all. The lettuce was fresh and there was shredded mild cheddar cheese atop the lettuce. There were thinly sliced tomato halves at either edge. Dressings were those big pouches of Kraft’s. I chose the balsamic vinaigrette. The tomatoes tasted nasty. I know winter tomatoes aren’t great, but these were really bad. They remained on the plate. The fruit salad was equally bad. We ate a few bites of the various pieces of fruit and tossed the rest out. I wish it had been practical to stop at Stein’s Market & Deli before heading to the airport to pick up sandwiches,
since Joi’s review was so great, but it wasn’t.
Service was polite and accommodating when we ordered. I find it unaccountable that the airport in a city known for its food should have such a paucity of options. Where are the Emeril or John Besh outposts? Or just the local good fried chicken joints? I don’t know what’s in the other concourses, but wasn’t impressed w/​the offerings in B. All over the country we’ve found surprisingly good food options when we’ve needed them, from Houston to Newark to Kansas City to Boston. The lack of good food here goes along w/​the lack of music and the lack of personality in the airport serving a city known for all three.

I had been looking for an oyster salad all over New Orleans, but could never find it on any menu of any restaurant we had been to. So I guess it was meant to be that we came here for lunch because they had oyster salad on their menu!!! It was delicious! The oysters here are from Acme oyster house (thats what I was told). Perfectly fried and so yummie! Plenty of seating at this little sit down joint. They have a TV if you want to keep up with the news and current events. Prices are very reasonable for the airport. I think my oyster salad was about $ 11.50. Not too shabby!