Le Bontemps Café & Catering Bon Appetit — Restaurant in Portland

I am a travel nurse from the south that recently has been working in the area. I saw the name and immediately thought I would be tasting something similar to home in Louisiana..nope..I had a delivery from this restaurant and was immediately disappointed. I ordered the Catfish platter which is a little misleading. I opened the box to find 1 catfish filet and two sides for $22. The catfish filet was not as big as the batter. It was not tasty and I tasted more seasoning and grease than actual seasoned fish. I normally dont leave reviews like this but to be honest this is not Cajun food it’s a knockoff and to be charging $22 for 1 filet of catfish is not good service. It was misleading because most places on the Ubereats app will put portion size like 2-3 filets etc theirs was blank. The green beans were drowned in minced garlic but it was a decent portion and good to eat. The dirty rice was very good and decently portioned. I also ordered 3 desserts, the cheesecake was a good size portion and so were the beignets. The banana pudding was disappointing. It was like a thick vanilla pudding on top of hard vanilla wafers that should be softened and left to sit in the bottom of the pudding, a couple of banana slices thrown in. Banana pudding should be evenly distributed and left to sit in a fridge to be really good. Im sorry for having to be honest but it was disappointing and for the price it was not worth it to me to pay $42 total for 1 filet catfish 2 sides and 3 dessert sides. I really wanted some good catfish I highly suggest at least making a catfish platter, 2 filets, thats at least fair to the customer . Just sharing some feedback from a girl raised in Louisiana. Hope they take what i say into consideration wasnt trying to be rude just honest. I wont be...

Having just returned from an amazing week long dining tour of New Orleans, we were craving those flavors and chose Le Bontemps for dinner. It was a perfect choice. From what I can tell, it's fairly new and family-run, and that same famous Southern hospitality we felt in Louisiana was definitely here. Everyone was super friendly and fun to chat with. Though more humble and casual than the fancier NOLA restaurants, it definitely stands up in terms of flavor, quality, service, and personality. The only things missing were the white tablecloths and Sazeracs. They even have Bourbon Street style slushy daiquiri machines.

We got the Taste of New Orleans Platter, which included jambalaya, crawfish etouffée, red beans & rice, and collard greens, and the blackened catfish platter with jambalaya and red beans (you can choose your sides), and we threw on an order of fried oysters. So dang good! We couldn't eat it all in one sitting, but the leftovers will definitely be gone before the end of the night. We'll be back for sure whenever we're in the neighborhood or craving Cajun food enough to drive across town for it. We'll be going back for brunch soon too and look forward to getting to know the...

My husband and I are from Louisiana so we were excited to try this restaurant. We originally went for the boudin, but they wouldn’t have any until next week. We ordered the the sampler which included two half entrees and two sides. We picked the gumbo, red beans and rice, andouille sausage and jambalaya. We also ordered peach cobbler. The restaurant was clean, however the staff was unprofessional. That’s all I’m going to say about that. Now to review the food, the red beans and rice was not good at all. It taste like kidney beans and rice. That’s it. No flavor, no salt, no seasoning, no nothing. Just kidney beans out the can and rice. My husband thought the gumbo was ok. The jambalaya was not good. The rice tasted overcooked and again no flavor. Andouille sausage didn’t taste like andouille; it tasted like regular sausage. Lastly, the peach cobbler was good. It was the only thing that had flavor; not too sweet but just right. Overall, to improve this restaurant, up the flavor in the food and definitely work on training your staff to have proper customer service skills and...