Tad's Louisiana Cooking — Restaurant in College Station

I have to admit I am very disheartened to write this as I was hoping college station was finally getting a seafood restaurant we could visit regularly.

First, the staff. The hostess at the front was very polite and informative about the greeting and wait time. We chose to sit outside and she let us know if we got cold to just ask out waitress and we could change tables or go inside if there was a table available which I though was very kind and accommodating. So far so good. The first waitress who visited us was fast to get our drink orders and the second waitress, who would be serving us for the rest of our stay, brought them out pretty quick. She asked us if we were ready to order and we asked for more time due the the number of meals they offer, more on that later. We closed out menus and she came out and took our order. This is where things went south. My wife ordered her meal, the fish taco and SW egg rolls lunch combo and I asked for a recommendation. The first thing she tells me is that she doesn't recommend any of the fried food because she didn't think it was very good here. That was my first red flag. I mentioned that's alright and if there was any grilled seafood she would recommend instead. She listed a few items but mentioned she hadn't tried any but 1. I went with the blackened shrimp alfredo in the end. After this exchange, nothing... For 30 minutes no drinks, no check-ins, no updates, nothing. Finally we got our food telling us the excuse that a party of 10 just walked in and ate. Never saw her again til we finally asked a hostess seating another couple for the check again our waitress gave us excuses as to why it was taking so long.

Part 2, the food. First off the menu is massive. There are too many options in my opinion, many of them able to be consolidated into a single item with options. I will say the food was good but most definitely over priced. For what we got I certainly expected a bit more. Honestly I would go to Razoo's and get a better meal for less than what we had here. And again, the food was good just not worth what we paid. (as a sidenote, come here with a large party at your own risk, as the automatic gratuity is higher here than any establishment I have been to).

Part 3, why we won't come back. When dining at a restaurant there is one thing I hold to be the most important thing to consider and that is cleanliness. Unfortunately, the serving rack that the fish taco was served on had prices of stuck food and what looked like soap residue on it. I have posted pictures of this and want to note that the areas I'm focusing on are not where the food was placed and were stuck to the metal and could not be easily wiped off. The white residue on the bottom could be wiped away with a moist napkin and looks like nothing that was served as food.

Again I had high hopes for TaD's but unfortunately it falls short of something I could recommend.

Update 3/27/22 We decided to give Tads another shot and redeem themselves for the last experience we had.

This time we had 5 in our party. Based on my experience this time, I hate to say it but nothing has changed since this last time. In fact, I feel this experience was worse. Between completely forgetting our appetizer, the side salads that came 15 min after the meal, and the cold crawfish that came after everyone else was done with their food, not to mention the "powdery" catfish and under seasoned food, I can not recommend anyone to eat at Tad's. I will give credit to the waiter for attempting to make it right by bringing me extra crawfish but the amount of dead and crushed crawfish and shells really just made my first order complete. Tad's, I gave you a second chance like you asked but unfortunately you fell...

I went here for the first and last time today! The booth seating was terrible like sitting on bare wood very uncomfortable. I ordered a steak medium the first part of it was fatty and juicy still somewhat pink but when i got to the middle of it was completely overcooked. When I told the server she responded appropriately and took it back. Then immediately came back and informed me the manager said it was half gone so they couldn’t do anything. I said well I'm not going to eat that it’s overcooked at least can you do some sort of courtesy. When the bill came they took $6 dollars of a $43 steak that I only ate half of and they threw the rest away. The server was nice. I asked for the manager. Mind you the fact that my meal was done and i was paying and I had to ask for the manager is absurd to me. The minute that food went back the manager should have been the one to come back to the table and speak with me but she cowardly let the server handle it! When she came to the table she had an attitude like I was trying to get over on the restaurant by complaining that my medium steak was overcooked, which it was and she agreed the meat was overcooked but still she felt justified with her disgusting attitude towards me like I did something to them!! She was so unprofessional clearly terrible at her job and unaware of what a mangers duties are! I explained to her how things should have gone. All the while she never apologized to me for my overcooked food. Charging me full price for food i couldn’t even finish because it was severely overcooked! The restaurant also charges a 3% connivence fee to your bill to help them cut down on costs!!! Absolutely ridiculous! So the $6.00 i got off was now $3.00 there’s a paper note taped on the front door which I'm sure no one reads! This place is basically stealing money from people!! Don’t waste your time going here!! What a nightmare! The manager looked like a kid! She clearly has no skill set in the service industry or how to treat people with dignity and respect! Instead she stole my money and insulted my character acting like I'm trying to steal from them but its actually them who are doing the stealing with their secret 3% convenience fee added to your bill after your card is processed!! Absolutely disgusting!! Terrible...

I’m in town visiting my family from Florida. They brought me here for the crawfish special Tuesday night because I love crawfish (originally from Louisiana) and I don’t get to eat it in south Florida. Everything started out great then went down hill fast. We had a party of 10 but we were super easy. All of us drank water and got 3 happy hour beers (all mich ultra). All of us ordered the crawfish special among one person ordering the boiled shrimp. When food came out everything was correct except the boiled shrimp. The server made the mistake and thought they said shrimp poboy (don’t now how that could be mistaken if they are suppose to ask about LTO and sides, which she didn’t). We never got a refill on waters during the 2.5 hours of being there. I had to give my mom my water since I had a beer for her to have something to drink. We asked for butter and seasoning and never got it until asking another server for it. Our server destiny was only there to take our order and never saw her again. But she was prompt on her other 2 tables behind us and gave them great service. I’m assuming she didn’t care about us since she was getting an automatic gratuity of 20%. I work in the service industry and I would have never treated my table like this. I don’t care if I was serving 1 person or 20. They all get the same service from me. At least give us a pitcher of water to refill our own glasses. Like duh. Work smarter not harder. We wanted to order more crawfish but waited forever to do so and when she finally came back she asked if we’re ready for our checks. We said no and assumed we were being rushed out. We got our other order eventually. After waiting another 30 minutes after we were done, Our checks came out messed up. We started to tell her about it and she walked off mid conversation. Another girl had to come and get our stuff corrected, which she had an attitude as well. The service absolutely killed the whole experience. My family dine there a lot and said this isn’t the first time the service has been terrible but they enjoy the food. We will be taking our business to OMG for future crawfish cravings. I’m giving 3 stars because of the good food but the service deserves negative stars and I wish we could have given the tip to...