Sunday dinner, around 6:30 p.m. The hostess' stand was very pleasant and accommodating. In fact, the entire staff at Zydeco was all very pleasant and eager to help/serve. Service at is easily 5/5!

We sat outside on this makeshift patio area, which borders the street and the sidewalk. It sits right in between. I chose to sit out here as the weather was warm, and it was nice to be outside.

While the service and decor were "great," in our opinions the food was just "good." Not bad, but also not terrific. For the positive rating this restaurant has, and for the prices, I was expecting a little better.

Drinks 4/5: Wife had Cloudchaser (gin, grapefruit, egg white, bitters) and I had a Jameson, neat. The pour on the Jameson was pretty darn stingy, haha. At $12 it seemed a little steep. I had a beer later on in the meal, since my micro-shot of Jameson was gone in a flash. My wife had a glass of wine toward the end too, a white Sancerre.

Appetizer 4/5: We had the bread + $1 butter option (sweet butter) but the ratio of butter to bread was funny. Way too much butter to only a few small slices of bread. Plus the butter was really hard. The salt was a nice touch. The real star was the Grilled Spanish Octopus with house made capicola and an olive tapenade. Yummy dish! Octopus was not chewey, and was the perfect grill texture.

Main 3/5: We ordered the 12oz. Ribeye, which was on the special menu and costs $62. It came with a small portion of potatoes au gratin, summer mushrooms, and asparagus. We ordered our steak medium. The asparagus was way too over-salted, to the point that I was picking off large pieces of maldon salt flakes. The steak was oddly medium on one half, and yet practically over-done on the other. Never seen such a thing, haha. My wife didn't mind since she likes it cooked a little more on the well-done side, so not a total loss, but when you're paying $62 for a steak it'd be nice if it was prepared the way you order it. All in all a filling steak, albeit the way it was cooked, and the salt content being too high.

Dessert 3/5: We tried the Oregon Cherry Cobbler. The cherries were the real star of this dish, but the biscuit pieces were overcooked, hard, and super dry. I was hoping for more of a biscuit texture, light, flaky. What we got were 5 pieces of overcooked dough in the shape of almonds. Ice cream was good, but it was such a tiny scoop that it threw off the ratio—it wasn't enough for the dessert.

Overall 4/5: we enjoyed our meal, and thought the restaurant had a lot of excellent options to choose from. I'd like to return and try some other options on their menu. Looking forward to it.