Charleston Bistro, Sweet Shoppe & Wine Bar — Restaurant in Lake Charles

I found the food to be delicious, me and my wife had the fried crawfish po-boy on the New Orleans style bun. My little girl had the chicken salad sandwich with sweet potato fries. The Establishment is extremely nice and does a good job of paying homage to the old Historic downtown area. The place in general is very clean with a very relaxing atmosphere, the servers are also very courteous and our food came out quickly. I found the prices on the menu both at lunch and dinner to be very affordable for the level of service that you receive here. They have a very delicious looking sweet shop on the side if you're into sweets, we had the cupcakes which I found to be overpriced and tasted like they were a couple of days old. I had to dock them one star because of this because a $3 cupcake that tastes like it's old is unacceptable when you have the likes of Mels Bakery and Sweet Chic in Lake Charles that have yet to be beat in my book. They have a lot more to offer than just cupcakes in there so I can only offer my opinion on the cupcakes, it all appears to be delicious though. Me and my wife were both impressed enough that we will definitely...

I would have given a two except the shrimp cocktail (though overblown with wasted items that we didn't eat), and my daughters shrimp poboy were okay though not exceptional at all. MY food on the other hand was horrible. I had the crab cakes they were too bread filled. Coyote Blues has better crab cakes. In addition, we had to wait forever for our food though the place did not seem that busy. I can wait for food if it is worth it. Mine wasn't. I was so hoping for this to be worthwhile. Lastly, our bread was slammed down without even the benefit of bread plates. I had to ask for them. $56.00 better spent elsewhere. (And, despite all this I still left a $10 tip). We were there about 1:30 on Friday, June 29th. Had high hopes this would become a regular place to visit was wanting to try the meatloaf and the beef tips as a go to place for lunch while working...

The place is just awful. My family started going when it first opened (5 stars). Atmosphere, food, and service were amazing! Every visit thereafter has declined. Our last lunch: My wife's "sammich" had one slice of turkey. Liturally one slice of turkey. Who does that?! I had to open my roast beast sammich to see if it had meat on it. It was sad to say the least. The soup they surved was cold and i'd be generous to say it was 3oz, if not less. And to top it all off, I asked for the house red and the waitress tried to charge me $20 for it. Shady to say the least. So sad that they turned a place with such a great atmosphere into an overpriced dump. Your money would be better spent down the street at one of the other venues like Tia Juanitas Fish Camp (fish tacos) or Botskys...