Roux Seafood Kitchen — Restaurant in Huntington Beach

Our visit to Roux Seafood. Came for the Louisiana style food and left slightly less enthusiastic. Having visited Louisiana on many occasions I would say it is possible my standards were too high but what I was met with seems to be the standard under their soft opening.

The lack of alcohol made quite more impact then I thought it would especially with limited fountain drink options.

Parking is decent

Kid options are non-existent but they do offer an appetizer of Chicken Tenders which saved us.

Food was less then preferential. We ordered the jambalaya which was overloaded with 3 main ingredients: Spanish Rice, Bell peppers, and red pepper (Cayenne powder). Clearly leaving out the majority of speices recommended for this dish. Consistency was good and rice was cooked which was a bonus but that pepper flavor was overwhelming and not editable for the diners at my table. I ordered the lobster which was sorely disappointing. (Another reviewer described it best at length). The lobster was presented with a mound of noodles pouring over and out of it. The white sauce had literally no flavor which made me want butter and lemons but nothing really topped it right. After you get through 5lbs of noodles you are met with a mostly broken lobster which took some of the fun of cracking it apart. The meat was tough although did glide out of the lobster so that was nice. The lobster honestly reminded me of the frozen stuff they sell at the store in big quantities and not the daily fresh quality advertised.

Overall I'm sorely disappointed despite it being a soft opening the flavors overall were bland or lacking. I hope they manage to workout some of the kinks before opening but unfortunately I won't be back especially with them not catering to...

My wife found Roux while searching for seafood restaurants near us and wanted to try it for her birthday. The place was samewhere between casual and fancy and you could dress either way. They did seem a bit short staffed when we arrived, but our server was working his tail off and was friendly and helpful the whole night. There was also a large party and other tables he was serving and we still felt well attended to. The food was very good overall. We started with clam chowder, a garden salad, gumbo and the spinach-artichoke dip. All were very good. For our entrees, my wife had the Roux Lobster, which she enjoyed. I'm not a huge seafood fan, so I had the ribeye, which was cooked perfectly. I added a lobster tail for my wife to add to her leftovers. The Roux lobster was fresh from the tank, but the added tail seemed to have been frozen. My older son ordered the full rack of lamb. A couple of pieces were a little on the rare side, so we did ask them to be fired a bit more and they came back great. My younger son wanted the alfredo, but with shrimp. They accommodated his request with no issues. The only real issue we had was with the alfredo that my younger son order and also came with the Roux lobster. They came with jalapeños, which wasn't in the description and not something traditionally in alfredo sauce. We brought that up to the server and he offered to remake the pasta without the jalapeños. We greatly appreciate that they made sure everything was right in the end. We noticed that other tables had brought their own wine and beer. We aren't big drinkers, but will be back and will definitely bring a bottle next time if they still don't have their liquor license and don't have a...

This place started extremely strong with the oysters rockefeller. That shouldn't be much of a praise though, because thats a hard dish to get wrong in the first place. These things though were thick, juicy, and extremely rich in a great way. Slapped ontop of that rock hard bread, Roux had found themselves a winning pearl in these oysters. Honestly, I should have ended the dinner here.

Now we get to the "star" of the night called the Lobster Empire... this concoction of seafood, noodles, and sauce really dropped the ball harder than the Hotak Empire which was a very shortlived empire. What we got on our hands here was a severely overcooked lobster, filled with what seemed to be an abundance of frozen scallops and shrimp, then sauce topped. I was advertised a delicate blanc cream sauce over angel hair pasta. Instead I was served this abomination of the blandest cream sauce I wasn't even able to taste, salad tossed together with a Kraft spaghetti box. I had feared I'd come down with the virus not being able to taste anything that was coming off this plate.

Lastly, we end on the restaurant where the restroom's water pressure has the might of a thousand suns blasting into a 2cm deep sink.

I've spent $100 on things far more stepped on than what this place has to offer, but I sure do regret this one more than the others.

All that being said... I would come again. They're in their soft opening so I really can't expect perfection right off that bat. Get a couple drinks in me and another choice off the menu and I 100% have a very differing opinion then the one I currently have above. They really need to expedite that alcohol license application hanging...