Wishbone Cafe' — Restaurant in Montgomery

I'm a engineer at heart, and I like being presented with constraints, as it causes you to rely on creative solutions to negate those constraints. For example, how would you take the equipment of a hollowed-out Quiznos and make it into a full service restaurant? In the case of Wishbone Cafe, their answer was surprisingly creative, though not without some shortcuts.

I'm sure the sandwiches are all well and good (and in the case of the free sample of collard green soup we were provided, definitely good), but we came for dinner, and we wanted something more substantial. I went for the Louis Armstrong, and the other two people with me each ordered something different.

The dish shouldn't really work - shrimp, scallops, cream sauce, and feta cheese? - but I was impressed, most especially at the freshness of the seafood, though my scallops were itsie-bitsie, each about the size of an M&M. Served over Cajun rice, it was unexpectedly good.

Working in a kitchen like this has its drawbacks, such as having to send each dish through the Quiznos oven, sometimes multiple times. Ingredients are frequently reused, too, most obviously in the cream sauce, which managed to find its way onto all three of our dishes. A lot of the dinner entrees seem to follow the same shrimp-cream-starch template, though if you aren't necessarily looking for a lot of variety (or just like the sauce), it's not really an issue.

The meal ended with a bowl of 'nana pudding, though Wishbone's version differed from most in not really being a pudding at all. Instead, it was banana slices and Nilla wafers tossed in a thick, fresh whipped cream that was lighter than its traditional counterpart and made it more about the banana. Certainly something to try.

Wishbone Cafe's slight Cajun bent and ingenuity make for some interesting eating in a small space, and reminds us that there are good eats to be found all...

Went to the Wishbone Cafe to support my son and "More Elements" last night. The music was good, except they can never get the sound right for the lead singer and the background vocals. The engineers on the sound board did not get it right again. This group of ladies can SANG! Not sing but Sang! When I entered the building the host was talking about my parents how they ran by him in a hurry to sit down when my mother is on a walker with back problems and cant stand very long and he said that it cost $10 to sit on a particular side. I told him no problem and sent money back by my dad to pay for all of us. I had to go to the restroom. We came to support and eat, plus enjoy the show. Last night's vibe was all wrong. After More Elements finished their show, they had a local comedian that was very disrespectful in every way, which ended the evening in a very uncomfortable place for me. I dont know about anybody else, that's the way I felt. If he had hit me in the head with the mic one more time it was really getting ready to go left, because you dont know me like that. This is supposed to be a nice place to relax and not be taken back to the past using the N-word in a disrespectful way! It is unacceptable and I won't be back to this establishment for a while. We spent quite a bit of money on last evening and my dad went back to use the restroom after he had helped my son with loading his equipment and they told him no and the place still had people in the establishment. They said they had to clean the restroom because they were closing and you still have people in there and on the patio and you couldn't let him use the restroom....

Went here on Thursday nite, June 17th, for a group meeting and eats! We were seated promptly as we had reserved a table for 15 people and had about 12 show up. Our server was a nice young man who brought us a house iced tea to taste and it was really good! The pineapple juice added to the tea made it very tasty! He took our orders and we didn't have to wait but about 15 minutes for our food. From there it went down hill. This is supposed to be a "Cajun" restaurant, but it was everything but! My husband ordered a side of red beans and rice and the crab cakes for dinner. The crab cakes were right on, but his red beans and rice were thrown together on the plate with the crab cakes and looked like someone had thrown up on the plate! You never mix red beans and rice! It is served in a bowl with the rice on the bottom and the red beans and sausage on top! He said it needed to go back in the box it came out of!. It was watery and tasted very vinegary! Nasty stuff! I ordered the Pasta Mardi Gras and it was supposed to be crawfish, chicken, and shrimp on angel hair pasta. Well, I never did find any crawfish and the shrimp was overcooked and tasted like rubber, and it was served on spaghetti, not angel hair! Guess the cook forgot his recipe! My son had the crab claws and they were drenched in some white sauce and too much oil and goo! They were pretty bad for crab claws! We will never eat here again. I lived in Biloxi, Ms for years and this is not even close to Cajun! Screw up red beans and rice, a...