The Quarter Creole Cuisine — Restaurant in Claremont

Was dying to try this place then the pandemic hit had to wait over a year but man was it worth it! Once you walk through the door you are greeted immediately buy host and management. It was a Tuesday night with live jazz music starting at 7:30. The place was booked with reservations but we were able to get seated in the bar which was comfortable and honestly there's not a bad seat in the joint. We were greeted by a lovely lady with a beautiful smile who started off by offering us cocktails suggested some appetizers and walked us through the menu.

I started off by ordering "lost on Bourbon Street" wonderful authentic cocktail and the bartender pours heavy no complaints. And my special date for the night (my grandmother) ordered coffee and said it was delicious.

Appetizer: I believe was a crawfish biscuit absolutely delicious second cocktail was "French 75" if you enjoy gin I recommend this cocktail. I did also order an old fashioned but this drink fell short for me. it was lacking in bitters and flavor.

Dinner: I had the seafood gumbo I cannot tell you how much I thoroughly enjoyed this meal "bread is served on request" my grandmother ordered the catfish we did try each other's meals and let me tell you that catfish was one of the best I have ever had in my life the meals were cooked to perfection. Overall we had a very pleasant experience with Wonderful Live music great cocktails and great food.

Things that need a little Improvement. Our server was overloaded with tables service was a little slow but when she did come around she was in the moment stares you in the face didn't look around like she was trying to hurry up and get to the next table she gave you her undivided attention and that was wonderful. Ordering cocktails from the bar was very slow sometimes frustrating how long it would take for the cocktails to come out then I noticed that the cocktails were actually being made but nobody was running the drinks from the bar well this is frustrating. it's a small place if you see a drink sitting up at the well who's ever free run the drinks to the table. this is a very easy fix. again we were happy with our server.

Like I said our server did have a lot of tables and she was working the patio. So when she was busy running food I asked the lady who I believe is one of the managers "she wore glasses and had red hair" if I could have a cup of coffee I asked her because I knew our server was busy and she was intending people on the patio. what was frustrating about the manager was she just passed my coffee order to our server. So after quite a while of not getting my coffee the red-headed manager had walked by and noticed I still didn't have it and said "oh you don't have your coffee yet" let me get that for you. Took the manager about 40 seconds and then I had my cup of black coffee. Sometimes as a restaurant manager your job is to relieve the load and pressure help your team out and make it a smooth night.

Overall very pleasant experience. on the way out a very lovely lady who I also believe is a manager very tall beautiful light skinned woman had a brief conversation with us hugged my grandmother goodbye and gave me some great info on when I should make a reservation for next time. And there will definitely be a next time I'm in love with this place.

P.s Thank you for supporting the Arts and allowing live musicians to Showcase their art. I know it's a sacrifice because you could put four or five tables where they are playing taking up space. We all appreciate you for understanding how important it is to have music...

Just finished my novel not to long ago yay me 👏🏿👏🏿🎉. There is a portion of my book based in NOLA. So I thought it would be fun to check out this Creole restaurant with my niece yesterday. It was there, that I had my first experience with Colorism. The host let me know we needed reservations and that we could not do same day reservations because they are packed and busy. Which was not true I had a friend of mine call who is Caucasian and she was able to make a reservation based on her name and then I had another friend call shortly after who is Nigerian and Tracy told her she couldn't make a reservation but she can sit her and her family at the first come first serve table at the bar area in an hour. When my niece and I arrived we looked around it was literally 4 people seated in the entire restaurant. But she offered a table to us at the chefs counter. The worse seat in the place because the floor was unstable and my niece and I were sliding all over the place. Luckily the bartender saw and he asked the host Tracy if we can change seats and she allowed us to move. The ⭐ belong to him not the restaurant, he was pleasant and kind to us. The food came out in 6 minutes which was odd to us it was plated beautifully and it was subpar to say the lease. We ordered The Quater Catfish the description of this dish was way better than what was brought out to us. The fish lacked flavor, and it taste more like trout than catfish. The one and only shrimp on the plate was microwave hard. There was no lumps of crab meat more like a few shreds in a bland light brown gravy that was not a butter sauce. There was nothing Creole about the plain white basmati no flavor rice. And the ratatouille was scarce and it was more like al dente style bland sauteed mixed vegetables. Nothing authentic about our meal maybe because they are from LA and not La. Staying was a big mistake on my part. Honestly I didn't want to face the reality that we were to dark, I was to big and clearly we were not the right fit for this restaurant; and looking around "Darling" it was obvious this was accurate.This was a sad experience my niece and I had to experience so we won't be back but I doubt the owners would even care #paperbagtest we didn't pass 🤷🏾‍♀️. However I have great material I might have to add to...

Would not recommend. Overpriced, We waited about an hour for our food to arrive. Although the decor was interesting at first - it felt gaudy and felt old and dusty. The busy and unique atmosphere originally drew us in, but we were met with such slow service that we had to wait about 10 minutes before we were asked if we would like to order our appetizers.

We like jambalayas, so we try to go to different restaurants who serve them to see how they make theirs. This was by far the most expensive and smallest portion ratio to every other place I've been to. For $35, I was expecting to be able to take home a whole another box. For comparison, at Downtown Disney we can get a huge portion that tastes great there (and can also get pasta as substitute for rice). Here, it came in a tiny portion on a huge plate, felt very dry, and I even found a tiny piece of sharp stem / bone that I had to pick out of my food. It was spicy, which I liked, but my wife found it way too spicy to continue eating it.

The worst part - and the reason why I decided to write this review before I went to bed - was the unforgivably awful cleanliness of the servers - we noticed that the servers were scratching their head and directly touching the food afterwards before delivering them. They were regularly also seen touching up the food with their bare hands. Absolutely gross.

It was my friend's birthday. The server didn't ask if there was any special occasion or anything, despite the place regularly celebrating birthdays (2 other parties were celebrating birthdays while we were here). For the price of all the food they were charging at a place like this, I was hoping that we'd get a complimentary dessert - but the server never asked about these and instead kept trying to push us to get desserts. I'm not saying that I wish that I was asking for free things - but wished they looked like they cared about your party like other restaurants of this price tag would.

My brother ordered a salad, expecting what a regular salad would look like. What he received was very disappointing mish mash of food that looked like it wanted to be gourmet, but didn't look appetizing or taste good at all. Do NOT...