Laffite’s

Umm… If you like your food super salty and majorly disappointing… Then this is the place! it is, after all, a hotel restaurant.

Service was great here. The bartender was the only one serving the entire bar. They were short staffed but he did a great job! Food is decent. Prices are very reasonable considering it’s a hotel! I ordered the crab and corn soup. It was lacking in crab but still had a good flavor. For my main meal I ordered the Cajun chicken lettuce wraps. They were ok. It was more of a spicy chicken soup with small strips of lettuce. They were too small for me to use as wraps. The soup lacked in chicken but had a good flavor. I only managed to eat about half. The ribs are really good but they are tiny so only get them if you just want something small.
Overall a nice little place to grab a bite or a drink. They have a bar top and a few small sofa tables spread out so there’s plenty of room to sprawl out and get cozy.

Food poisoning is never a good thing. After eating the ribs with sweet potato soufflé and a dinner salad, all was well. The tastes weren’t great but weren’t bad. Then, at about 2:30 AM I woke up and felt sick. I went to the bathroom and it started. Vomiting and Diarrhea for the rest of the night. I had intended to leave the hotel at 7ish, but couldn’t make it to my car until 11AM. I ate nothing, only drinking water to try and keep hydrated. Since I lost everything and would become drenched in sweat all night long. Since the only things I ate all day were the breakfast at the hotel (omelet) at 6:30 in the morning and the LaFittes dinner, it wasn’t hard to know which made me sick. I would never order or eat their food again. The service was fine. The food, NOT.

The service was very friendly, smiling. The food, unfortunately, was bland/​meh/​unnotable. Tried the gumbo which was recommended, and it was fine, but I found the flavor to be more peppery than cajun spice. The salad was not the most appetizing, but I will grant that I didn’t come in to eat until 9:30pm and the staff was accommodating. The pasta was ok – I will say the reheat in the microwave the next day was much better!
All in all, I think the time, day, and chef on hand probably does matter in terms of your enjoyment of the establishment but I wouldn’t hang my hat on it.

Had Dinner here Saturday night, very enjoyable.
We ordered the Meatloaf (Chefs Special, not your usual meatloaf!) and the Shrimp Creole, outstanding. Creole was spicy but not overly so. Sweet and sour chicken flatbread appetizer was outstanding. Had a night cap in the bar, Derek gave great service.

This is a review a long time in the waiting. I’ve been thinking about his one for some time.
I was working late one night and my co-​worker and I were tired and hungry and looking for a good place to get something to eat. So where did we go… Unilocal.We decided we were in the mood for Cajun and started reading some reviews and came across Laffite’s. After discussing we decided that we would try it out, after all how off can the previous reviews be… not far.
Here’s what I had to eat.
–the sampler
— Creole Crab Cakes (⁴⁄₁₀)
— C’est bon Ribs (⁴⁄₁₀)
— Buffalo wings (³⁄₁₀)
— Vieux Carre Chicken and Sausage Gumbo (²⁄₁₀)
— house salad (−1÷10)
— Crawfish étouffée (−1÷10)
The crab cakes weren’t the worst I’ve had, but weren’t anywhere near the best. they tasted a lot like something I could buy at the local grocery store and heat up in the oven.
The Ribs had a bit of gamey taste to them. The meat did fall off of the bone which I love, but other than that not worth it. I was expecting more sauce on them and was disappointed.
The buffalo wings were dry. Nuff said
The Gumbo… yuck. I could have gone to the store and bough a better Gumbo in a can. It was watery and had an appearance of something only creatures from the dark abyss would enjoy.
The house salad… yup that’s right i am reviewing the house salad. Needless to say didn’t eat more than a couple small bites. How can a restaurant feel comfortable bringing out brown lettuce. Everything about this salad said fail.
The étouffée… I love étouffée. It is by far my favorite cajun dish. I fell in love with this dish in travels to the South for a couple years, and then traveling there for work. Not having been back to the South for a few years now i was really craving it. This was just plain bad. It lacked any desirable flavor. It tasted like something they cooked in my gym shoes. Nothing about this tasted fresh as the menu had led me to believe. I think the worst part about this dish was that the crawdads tasted rotten. Having learned my lesson from down South of eating fresh crawdads that tasted rotten and getting food poisoning, I stopped eating. I was very disappointed in this dish… ok I lied, the whole experience.
Will I ever go back to La’feets…nope, I’ll let my feet take me elsewhere.

I read the reviews but didn’t believe them… that will teach me. They started by telling me it was going to be a long wait for my food since they were unusually busy. I counted 12 people in the place and 6 were all at the same table. Ordered the étouffée, flavor was good but rice was undercooked & crunchy. Definitely skip this place if you have a choice.

Thank god I only had the corn and crab chowder. it was so salty I really needed the bread to kill the salt. the only thing that was done right was the ice tea.

We were so excited to try this place because we love New Orleans food & what a huge disappointment. The appetizers were ok but the meals were bland & had a pond water taste. I wish I had checked reviews before going. The waitress was nice.

FAMOUS FOR
— Probably nothing!
I TRIED:
— Bayou Sampler
— Creole Crab Cake (⁵⁄₁₀)
— C’est Bön Ribs (⁴⁄₁₀)
— Buffalo Wings (⁴⁄₁₀)
— Vieux Carre Chicken & Sausage Gumbo (³⁄₁₀)
— Lafitte’s House Salad (⁰⁄₁₀)
— Bayou Country Creole (¹⁄₁₀)
I discovered Cajun food several years ago when some friends took me to Heaven on Seven, and the gumbo was awesome! I haven’t been to too many Cajun places since, but for me, that’s the place to beat. I randomly had a flashback of Heaven on Seven, so sitting in the office, working late, as usual, my coworker and I decided to search Unilocal for Cajun, and we found one single place near us. And here we are.
This is the Embassy Suite’s in house restaurant. According to their website, their menu was developed by John Folse, CURRENT president of the American Culinary Institute. Nope! Check for yourself. Ok, I’ve already spent way too much time on this review, because this place just feels like a scam. It plain sucks. The website spouts off this crap and… forget it, I’ll just review the food and get outta here.
CREOLE CRAB CAKE
We got the Bayou sampler, and it came with the wings, ribs, and crab cake. The crab cake was halfway decent. I’ve had Baltimore crab cakes, and I’ve had microwave crab cakes. This is close to the microwave one, but that’s not all that bad! Just because you make it in a microwave doesn’t mean it sucks. And that’s about as much good as I can say about this. Though it was one of the only halfway decent things we tried, it’s not worth $ 9.95 to get it by itself.
RIBS
These are supposedly covered in a Cajun BBQ sauce, and really, I don’t think it quite worked. It tasted like Sweet Baby Rays with a sprinkle of… something unnatural. Something in this concoction actually, very subtly, tasted gamy! The texture was actually pretty good. Tender, and fell off the bone. At first, it doesn’t taste bad, but once I recognized that mild gamy flavor, it’s all I could taste.
BUFFALO WINGS
These are supposed to be tossed in a «Cajun spicy sweet sauce,» but there was nothing authentic, exotic, or mindblowing about this. These… are…BUFFALO WINGS! And not great ones either! So, that ends our Bayou Sampler. Very mediocre, but probably the best thing here.
GUMBO
When it came out, it looked very… pale. As I drowned the white rice, I noticed the gumbo was a lot more watery than I remember. It’s not quite Chicken Noodle Soup, but it’s not Tomato Soup either. It’s almost like… Minestrone. Surprisingly, it had an acceptable amount of flavor and seasoning. Here’s how I explain this. If I could go to the grocery store, and buy Campbell’s Chunky Gumbo, and this is what came out, I’d be stoked! If I went to a restaurant and paid $ 4 for this, I am not entertained.
HOUSE SALAD
Who the hell takes time to review a side salad? Well, this was such a spectacular fail, I had to mention it! This was the most horrifying house salad I’ve ever seen! I mean, I’m talking about Denny’s and Baker’s Square being gourmet compared to this! It couldn’t even get 1 star out of 10! First, it was dehydrated! If they splashed it with water, it may have earned 1 star! Second, about 50−75% of the lettuce leaves were browning! YUCK! The tomatoes tasted like fail. Oh and lastly, I asked if I could have a Caesar Salad, and they said «Sure!» But I got a house salad with Caesar dressing. I know, I know, First World Problems, but whatever.
BAYOU COUNTRY CREOLE
Ok! Finally we get to our main course. It’s a hot plate, with 3 lines drawn on it. Creole, white rice, and steamed veggies. My first bite contained a tomato, which was probably the other half of my salad tomato. The whole thing just tasted kinda funny. It took several bites for me to really try to figure out what the familiar taste was, and I got it. Tomato Soup! I took several bites that were completely devoid of tomatoes, and all it really tasted like was tomato soup with peppers and shrimp. Honestly, there was no «Cajun» spice or anything to be found here. It was like straight up tomato paste and veggies. The shrimp were jumbo, but overcooked, so they were a bit tough and chewy. Tomatoes, onions, celery, bell peppers, and garlic, and all I could taste was the tomatoes.
ONE STAR?!
Yes! My coworker got the Étouffée, and he said it was disgusting too. I actually debated on whether or not to give it 1 or 2, but the fact that we split the bill and each paid $ 34 for this meal (when we could’ve gone to Morton’s for Restaurant Week and paid $ 33) made it a no brainer. I don’t give many 1’s. In fact, I give more 5’s than 1’s, and I consider myself a pretty stingy reviewer. So I guess, in that case… Congratulations Lafitte’s, you are among the company of a few!
Oh, side note. If John Folse developing the menu had anything to do with him typing the menu, he needs to be smacked. Interchangeably uses «bbq» and then «BBQ». What is «ADozen large chicken.»? You ever been to «Mardi Gra?» Bad tense: «tossed and garnish with…» and so on!

Cajun? Creole? In title only. Poorly done imitations of the real dishes. This is not the kind of place you go out of your way to eat at. This is the kind of place you eat at when you are travelling and you don’t want to go out of the hotel because it’s really late or it’s snowing outside.

HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE food! We ordered some gator things as an appetizer which were super tough and not very flavorful — and I believe like $ 9 for the tiny portion we got.
Our entrée’s were too disgusting to eat more than one bite of. They were bland and tasted like chlorine! We sent them back, paid the bill, and bailed. This place needs a complete overhaul. So gross!
Really…you are much better off financially if you buy some shrimp at the grocery store and cook it in dirty pool water; it’ll taste the same as anything you could purchase at Lafitte’s.

Sorry guys, but I’ve lived in New Orleans and this is NOT authentic cuisine.
The word here is bland. In fact, I’m pretty sure if you look up the word «bland» in the dictionary, it would say, «any supposedly authentic dish served by Lafitte’s». What’s really tragic is how much they pump themselves up on their website, bragging about things like «flawless recipes and presentation» and that «many of the guests comment that they know real Louisiana food, and they concur that Lafitte’s is indeed the real thing.»
Yeah, okay. (eyeroll)
My crawfish etouffe came served with a whole crawfish in the center of it. His beady little eyes implored me to not eat the etouffe. I wish I had listened. I’ve made etouffe from scratch. I can tell you that this roux sucked. Without an excellent roux, etouffe is doomed.
The best part of the meal was getting to terrorize my companion with the crawfish. The busser got quite the chuckle out of that.
Note to Lafitte’s — it’s called ICED tea for a reason. It’s not called lukewarm tea, or room temperature tea, or barely cool tea. Learn it. Live it.