Cajun Bistro 7 — Restaurant in San Jose

I feel bad for writing this review, because the owners and waitstaffed all look like they were really nice people. But I knew it was going to be an incredibly bad meal when I walked in, my girlfriend was hungry.

The restaurant is in extremely strong contention for the worst meal that I've ever had in my life. I tasted the food they brought out but I didn't eat any of it. I was initially concerned that an Asian restaurant was trying to do cajun, without a hint of irony, but it was somehow worse than I had thought. Southern food and Cajun is not my specialty, but I know it well enough to know what tastes good. I've never seen a Cajun place that gives you surgical gloves at the table, if you have any Southern pride whatsoever or are even slightly foody, this place is going to feel very insulting.

The restaurant is all 20 something year old or high school kids, and the wait staff on ceremoniously brings out a metal bowl with a giant plastic bag which inexplicably has the boiled food along with the sauce. There's a multitude of problems here and it's hard to know where to begin, my clams for all smashed with shell pieces throughout the whole plastic bag, for some reason the plastic bag was full of shrimp antenna, and the sauce was just nothing short of an abomination. It was truly, astonishingly bad even belying explanation, but it was this sort of super runny consistency low quality milk with just terrible spices, it honestly felt like an exaggerated joke of what terrible Chinese food would be like if they didn't understand what Cajun was but maybe saw it on TV once.

Honestly, and I feel bad for saying this, generally my negative reviews I try to have some constructive feedback for the proprietors, maybe suggestions about things that they could work on. In this case I can't there's nothing redeeming about this establishment. They definitely seem like they're doing very well with the late teenager crowd of various Asian ethnicities but I must say in the strongest possible terms, avoid...

When my daughter came back to visit from NY, she happened to crave for Cajun seafood, we went to Cajun Crack'n in Milpitas and this time my son recommended this restaurant that he likes after eating here with friends before. This one is in the VN shopping center, very crowded shopping center so it's very hard to find a parking spots even there are many. So, the restaurant is small, and the servers don't know how to be pleasant or attentive, if you need something you have to ask only when they want to see you even the aprons. I didn't have good feelings with this restaurant. The restaurant is typical VN family restaurants, just simple tables and chairs, not very airy. Like every cajun seafood restaurant, they have some combo for people to choose. One thing that disappointed my daughter was NO snow crab legs, only King Crab for $80/lb. I didn't care fore the seafood that much, there's no catfish fried for me so I ordered something to eat, beef cubes sauteed with linguine which so soggy and soft. I cook linguine better than this. There's not much on the menu for seafood that I really like. My daughter sadly ordered the combo $70 which didn't have much in it. If it's up to me I just get up and leave, go some places that have what you want but since my son recommended this so we stayed. We ordered some fried calamari and fries for appetizers, they're ok, nothing special, I could still taste the calamari seafood odor. The main course came, the sauce didn't look very good, but my wife and daughter said it was ok, not bad. My son seemed to enjoy it more. Anyhow, we decided that this restaurant is just for my son and his friends not for us. Never been in a restaurant and feeling so unhappy and unexcited...

Took around 40 mins after sitting down to order and get any food.

Ordered the garlic parmesan noodles, mussels, king crab, shrimp, and Cajun fries. The garlic noodles were good and the Cajun fries were nice and spiced but only seasoned at the top. The mussels were in the original sauce in medium heat but, the sauce just tastes like butter and minced garlic. Mussels were decent but a little fishy tasting. The shrimp is head on— and there’s no option for without. We got the spicy original and they were definitely a little overcooked, because the shell is very hard to remove from the meat and they’re not cut clean at the top to remove the shrimp poop. If you’re looking for real spicy, the closest thing is the Cajun fries. The crab tasted pretty old and spoiled. There’s a bitter aftertaste in old crab and when the shell is bendy and flexible, it’s not the greatest sign. They don’t have anything to offer to crack the crab open, so it was tough to finish. The price for everything is decent except the crab. It’s market price and was around $90 for a pound of crab and it wasn’t even fresh. Comes with basically a stick of melted butter, sugar, and onions.

Made me miss east coast Mr and Mrs...