The Grand Bayou Cajun Kitchen — Restaurant in Ontario

The service was absolutely top notch. Our server was enthusiastic and friendly. I realize that during partial quarantine the full menu wasn't being offered but I thought that the wrinkled photocopies we were handed would be the correct menu. It wasn't. Approximately half of what was in the modified menu wasnt available. Me chose alternates and assumed that what we ordered would resemble Cajun cuisine. It didn't. It was basically meat pizza and deluxe pizza with Andouille sausage instead of bacon. The shrimp dinner came with the kind of fries you get at Taco Bell, a side of canned beef gravy and half a plate of very over- deep fried mini shrimp with cocktail sauce. The coating in the shrimp was so hard it was cutting my gums and I started peeling it off. This place could be great, but they have to make actual Cajun inspired recipes AND have a few of them avaliable reliably. Instead of returning, which is an hour's drive for us, we're going to look elsewhere for crab cakes...

Tried the voodoo chicken. It was ok. Bbq sauce is heavy on vinegar, I wish I asked for another sauce. It was supposed to come with coleslaw but mine didnt. After I asked the waitress why, only then she told me that they ran out. I asked if I can get any other salad instead, she said there is nothing else and that she gave me extra fries anyway (didnt look like I had extra fries but whatever). On the menu voodoo chicken comes with plume or bbq sauce. I got the bbq sauce but was surprised that I was charged an extra $2 for it when I got the bill. I assume when something is described in the menu it should be included in the price. Had to ask twice for a glass for my beer. Water glasses are stained, looks like marks that water leaves when it dries. Probably clean but looks awful. Lowest tip % on the machine is 15%.

In conclusion, there are better places to eat...

I now know why for YEARS I drove right by the place! The first sign to turn around and run should have been the excessively drunk man that stumbled out and back into the place? Or was it that the place was empty? Maybe it was my pop that tasted like carbonated water? Hmmmm, possibly when my husband asked about a specific menu item and the waitress had no idea what he was talking about?

Bottom line is the atmosphere sucks, the waitress was friendly but to the point she would just join in our dinner conversation, the food was poorly cooked and was tasteless. When the waitress came to the table, the bells and whistles did. It go off that 2 meals were going back barely touched ( the other 2 meals were eaten, outta starvation). For 2 people with an app and a beverage, that was. $70 lesson. Lesson learned!

Keep driving and don’t let the pictures on...