Bubba Ts' Kitchen — Restaurant in Texas

Reached out to management 24 hours before this review. I have not received a response.

I have been waiting for this location to open because we live very close by, and I'm a Cajun girl. I was on my way home today and decided to place an order for pickup, knowing it would only be a 3 minute car ride home with fresh, hot food. Otherwise, I would have dined in.

A kind young girl answered the phone and took my order. She was knowledgeable about the menu and repeated my order back to me perfectly!

1 order of Boudin Balls, regular sized 1 shrimp poboy, fried 1 small side of cajun fries 1 bread pudding

Come to find out, the young lady works there with her mom and just started last weekend.

I arrived about 5-6 minutes later, and my order was already sitting on the counter in a bag. I thought that was awfully quick! I was hoping everything was made fresh in that short amount of time.

The young lady's mom was at the front (a manager, possibly?), and she was very friendly and welcoming. We chatted for a second while I paid, checked out the remodeling, and waited for her daughter to finish packing my order. They thanked me as I left.

The woman came right out behind me and gave me another bread pudding. She said her daughter had mistakenly heated up my bread pudding in the to-go container which isn't what she was supposed to do (the container melted), and she gave me a cold bread pudding to heat up at home. I thought that it was nice of her to quickly catch me before I left.

I always immediately sample my fries on my way home. These fries were piping hot, but unfortunately, they were stale. No crunch. Mushy and stale. They were not the Cajun fries I ordered either, but regular, plain fries.

I live nearby, so the rest of the food was only in the bag, maybe 3-4 minutes. I got home and immediately opened all the containers. The boudin balls were just ok. With all the positive reviews online, I thought for sure they would be a guaranteed win. The flavor was there, but they weren't hot or crunchy on the outside - like they had been sitting.

The fried shrimp poboy was average. Bread was thin, a little soggy, not like traditional poboy bread, and the shrimp was lukewarm. The flavor was average.

Lastly, the bread pudding. The replacement she gave me heated up well in the microwave, but I wasn't given any of the sauce to go on top of that one. I had to scrape the sauce out of the bottom of the other melted container, and there just wasn't enough.

Your front of the house staff that I interacted with were very courteous, and the restaurant remodel was very well done.

I paid $30 plus a tip....

New place on 1488 about 1/2 mile from Valero and HEB right side of road if going West. I'm one of new strips centers on the corner of the strip. Same people have the on off 99 and Rayfod.

Now the service and food.

Servers ànd front end staff extremely friendly and nice.

My office for years was near Rajin Cajun on Richmond and they set the bar for me on gumbo, shrimp, crawdads.

The had a spot in Woodlands briefly but was in horrible location on Research at back of strip center so the closed.

Since then I Have tried all similar places in Woodlands/Conroe, all were fair to middlin, some way expensive and so on.

We stopped t this one today and had late lunch.

They had great Po Boys, and specials on various options of catfish, shrimp and oyster plates for 9.50. Each with ample lunch and even dinner portionthey have larger array platters and combinations and prices were very decent.

Couple behind us had Crawdads and Mon-Wed t 5.99 pound. I asked them about their bUgs and they said they were very good as was potatos and corn. They had 3 lbs and left with to go box after eatingamd it looked like they still had 3lbs. Point is they have generous amount of the scale.is broke.

I had fried shrimp Po Boy and it was made the way I first tasted one in South Louisiana. It was stuffed with large shrimp. I also had the small seafood gumbo and it was very good. Some places have a really dar reux and I don't care that darkness. Somplaces have little color and the seafood you have to search for.

Here the gumbo was a nice brown and had probably 15 whole small shrimp, and crawdads and oysters. Had no problem picking out what was what.

Wife has the #1 Special I generous catfish filet, 3 large shrimp, and hand made local Onion Rings(really good..no Sysco frown here)overall the food was really good, the place was very clean and and staff great.

Best of all it's less than 2 miles from 242 where we live.

I know juct like Mexican, Italian, Chinese food and cars to each their own. However.i thought this was great.

Our food and 2 drinks were $31 dollars... that's a good price to me

If you live out this way, and like those items you should at least give them a try. When I'm in Houston I still stop by Raging Cajun, but this was comparable and as good as that.

Until they get their signage up...north side 1488 about 1/-12 Mile past HEB/Valero

No I don't have any connections to the place, it's a...

Firstly, this is our second experience with this establishment. The first visit was AMAZING and so memorable! The food was excellent, well seasoned, hot, and fresh, and the customer service was great! 5 stars!!

So, because of that great first impression, maybe we were a bit spoiled and had high expectations. We arrived at about 6 pm, there were only 2 other tables seated with their food. The cooks were both standing in the kitchen, not cooking anything, and it appeared as though they were on their phones (heads down, staring at one spot). The reason I mention that is to say the kitchen wasn't busy at all. We ordered a myriad of items; blackened catfish combo with red beans and Jambalaya rice, chef's salad with blackened Mahi with brocolli and red beans and rice, 2 orders of blackened catfish tacos, and salmon chef's salad with fries and garlic bread and 2 ala carte pieces of chicken, totaling $88, $98 with tip. Some items we ordered were items from our last visit, so we had an expectation of taste and some new items. Also, an important point is that where we're staying is a 6 minute drive from the restaurant. So, we expected hot, fresh food. Well, what we received was mediocre, at best. None, and I mean NONE, of the food was hot or fresh. All the blackened fish items were lukewarm and overcooked. The Jambalaya was dry, like I needed to drink something after every bite. The orders of red beans and rice were ok, nothing like our first visit. The fried chicken was flavorless. I could go on and on about each item, but suffice to say, we were extremely disappointed.

I'm not sure if we'll go back as it's currently a 50/50 overall experience. I'll update my...