Creole Cajun Bistro

I recently moved to AZ and I’ve been on this gumbo kick for the past week I’ve tried 4 places in the past week (yes my craving has been crazy) Hands down the best I’ve tried … Thank you!

Great shrimp po boys, best I’ve had outside New Orleans in fact. Haven’t tried anything else there but that’s mostly due to the price. I don’t fault them for that though because the seafood actually tastes fresh. Friendly staff

This place was delicious we had a shrimp oyster PO bo, and crawfish étouffée. The service was amazing and the beignets were to die for!

What a delight experience!
Our first visit did not disappoint.
I had Okra File Andouille Sausage Gumbo. I ordered a cup, a very generous portion served in a «cereal» bowl.
My husband ordered Red Beans, Andouille Sausage and Rice.
Again, a «cup» came in a bowel.
The sausage is homemade and was the highlight of both dishes.
Chef Eric invited us to come back again for LIVE JAZZ twice a month on Saturday night.
We will come back and bring friends.
Cindy M

Meals are always hot, freshly made and bursting with flavor. Beans and Rice is always piping hot and carrying a rich taste.
Chicken is always crispy to order and given in generous portions. In striking a balance to be accommodating to all customers, the Bistro teases patrons with more discerning taste buds towards «mom’s fried chicken.» Perhaps in the best interest of those raised on «mom’s,» the Bistro more carefully manages the saltiness of its chicken.
That is made up with the ‘home-​run out the park’ collard greens.
The experience of music, ambience, beverage selection and variety of tastes leaves the patron planning their quick next return.

We had lunch there and thought the service was good. I had a shrimp po boy that was huge. The shrimp and sauce were good and would order again. A nice ambience and a place I would like to see be successful .
Having grown up in Tex/​Louisiana I do know what gumbo should taste like and I always judge Cajun restaurants by the taste and quality of their gumbo. The gumbo was a disappointment. The roux was too thick, no file available, no okra and the taste was not even close to what gumbo should taste like. I would like to rate it higher but for me, a Cajun restaurant must serve a good and «real» gumbo. Hopefully it will improve in the future.

Came in here for lunch today.
Place was quiet with 1 waitress who was also the bartender. She was very sweet and polite. She got us our drinks. Was apologizing for things being slow. Didn’t really notice it as we were talking and visiting among ourselves.
We ordered shrimp poor boy and sausage poor boy with sweet potato fries to share. The portions are very generous and the 3 of us were full from sharing the 2 subs and even had some to take home.
The subs were fantastic! Shrimp were very tasty crisp and hot. The sausage was very good and had a nice spice to it.
Over all very nice experience in a quiet hidden little restaurant. We will definitely come back.

The food and service were awesome! Olivia (the server) was a breath of fresh air. She was attentive and friendly. I wish all servers were like her. I had the Mac n cheese and tilapia basket and my husband had the jambalaya. Both were really yummy. The only disappointment was that because the portions were generous, we didn’t have any room left to try their amazing whiskey bread pudding.
Don’t let any negative reviews keep you from trying this place. It is well worth it. You won’t be disappointed!

My girlfriend and I went here on Easter Sunday, and weren’t disappointed! I was born and raised in New Orleans, and after traveling and living all over the world, call Gilbert home now. It’s nice to find a place that gives me my childhood dishes cooked just the way that they should be. We will definitely be back!!! Laissez les bon temps roulez!!! :)

WOW! Fantastic food… we wished we had tried this hidden gem earlier. We tried the frenched wings, sweet corn fritters, dirty rice, chicken étouffée, red beans & rice and the whiskey bread pudding for dessert. Everything was amazing but the sweet corn fritters were beyond amazing and the whiskey bread pudding was one of the best desserts we’ve ever had anywhere.
This little bistro is hard to find behind the CVS and Auto Zone but well worth it!

Will never go back to this place! My family and I sat down and waited for over 20 min with no one to come over with water or anything. The place had 3 tables going so I would have thought that they at least would greet us. When we walked in the lady behind the bar just said sit where ever. Place is close to home so it sucks that we did not get a chance to taste the food. But because of the horrible first impression we wont spend any money there and will make sure that no one in the area does either.

I’ll keep it short. The food was slightly better than average and felt a little over priced. The service was definitely lacking, but our server acknowledged it and was very apologetic. I don’t know how much of it was actually her fault. The atmosphere wasn’t anything special. The one nice detail was the selection of Abita beers on draft.

Just tried to order food for the first time ever from this place and asked for it to be a to go order and they said no. Who doesn’t allow a walk in customer to order a to go order? Not sure I’ll ever try to go here again. If it says on their website or online menu that they don’t allow to go orders then I am wrong. But after 10 min looking I don’t see this as a warning to potential customers. The waitress could’ve been a little nicer about it too.

Went here for fat Tuesday.
Pros: The fried alligator was very good and the. dipping sauce was even better. I had 2 draft beers and my girl had the white sangria, both were cold and tasty. The place is pretty good size and has a nice shaded patio. The staff was very nice we will definitely come back.
Cons: The service was a little slow but we were understanding due the number of new employees. If there was one thing the restaurant could do to speed up the process, it would be to get a second register. Also, the bar only seats about 10 people but there are plenty of tables in the place if you want a seat.
Overall a good experience

Sooooooooo glad we found this place! My brother in law found an article about this place in the news paper so we decided to try it out. Oh boy. found another place to add to our routine places to eat out.
I had the shrimp and grits… pretty good and the portions were pretty large. I don’t know what happened but i ate the left overs the next day… man it was amazing! It was better the next day! I think the grease and spices had a chance to soak into the grits… wish I had saved more!
Brother-​in-​law had a bowl of gumbo. I tried a bite and it is on par with some of the better versions I’ve had. And we took some wings how for my wife to try. The breading on the wings was great. Even after 20 minutes streaming in the box/​bag they were still pretty crisp. Can’t wait to try these at the store on our next visit.
And i save the best for last… the beignets! Mother have mercy on my soul I’m in trouble now that I know how good theirs are. Stay for a good coffee and these and I promise you will fall in love.
We will be back… many times for sure!

I came here in search for beignets, but got a full meal as well and was not disappointed! Had alligator, sweet corn fritters, and chicken étouffée which were all amazing. The chef is from Louisiana and was nice to talk to. I’m surprised I had room for beignets after all that but they are surprisingly light yet decadent. Service was great and I will definitely be back.

I love Cajun food, and this place has wonderful service and all the staff is so friendly. We had Cajun hot wings, fried okra and the gumbo.
We will try the alligator when I can convince my wife, we will be coming here again!

Let me start by saying this: great enviroment, clean restaurant with great service.
When we first walked in, we were immediately greet and seat down anywhere of our choice. Shortly after, our waitress showed up with our drinks and also helped us with deciding our menus. Food did take a bit long to prep only because alligator meat and chicken must be fully cooked. I appreciate the fact that the waitress noticed our food was taking longer than what was served in other tables. She took an initiative to peek inside the kitchen for us and keeping us posted.
For appetizer, we ordered allegator meat and chicken wings with Lemon flavor (first time trying allegator meat btw…). My friends are right. It does taste like chicken. The chicken wings are super meaty and absolutely delicious. For our main course, we order thr famous jambalaya. Wow that was so tasty!!! For dessert, we order Beignets (also my first time trying it). It was so sweet, fluffy and delicious. I highly recommend it to other Unilocaler.
Again, kudos to the wonderful service. When we were about to wrap up our meal, again our waitress took initiative asking us if she could order the dessert since the restaurant is getting busier. It is much appreciated. I highly recommend anyone who wants to try Cajun food.

Before my rant begins I want to make it clear that I love keeping local businesses open and the 4 star should really be maybe a 3.5 solely on food.
It was our anniversary Friday, so the bf decided that we should try somewhere new, his co-​worker had told him about this Cajun place that was delicious and asked how I felt about Cajun for dinner. .
We had a little bit of a hard time finding the place since it is tucked away and if you just look at the map it almost looks as if it’s in the same shopping center as Basha’s, but it’s behind CVS.
We walked in and get seated right away with menu’s, we decided on appetizers and our main course 5 to 10 minutes later… but we haven’t been greeted yet. Finally our server comes by and drops off some waters and asked if we wanted anything else to drink. we let her know we were ready to put in appetizers, hush puppies jalapeño style and cajun onion strings please…
15 minutes has gone by and the bf’s sprite was gone and water was half emptied and left on the side of the table… where’s our server. there’s only 4 tables of couples and 1 larger party who were finished.
Our server finally comes by tells us our apps should be out shortly and asks if we were ready to order our meal. Gumbo and the Jambalaya please!
Our appetizers finally come out 20 minutes later. bf absolutely loved the hush puppies! But the onion strings on the other hand were shaved wayyyy too thin. it was all batter, like the onion disintegrated while it was fried. 10 minutes later our server checked on us, we asked for a box for the remaining hush puppies but not the onions strings, she asked if there was something wrong, we told her, she agreed and that was that. then I had to ask her to refill our cups since they’ve been sitting there empty for quite some time now. Patiently waiting for our meal, I watched as another table after us get their food first, hmm they must have not gotten appetizers as I thought to myself. then our server walks up and shows us a blank check book and tells us our order got lost… and asked for us to repeat it. umm funny thing is I don’t believe it got lost, because I don’t recall her ever writing it down and what the heck took her so long to realize our order was missing?! As irritated as I was I politely answered her…
Our food finally came out 15 to 20 minutes later.
Bf’s Gumbo was excellent! Tasty! DELICIOUS! NOW onto my Jambalaya! Yummy as well but a tad spicy for my wimpy butt. but the chicken chunks in it were perfectly cooked, juicy and tender, definitely fresh and not over cooked at all! I asked for a box so I could save room for beignets, waited a good 10 to 15 minutes before I finally got up and asked for the check and our dessert to be to go… we really didn’t want to wait any longer but I also really wanted these beignets… never got the check til I asked a second time. no bag for our left overs were given either until I asked. looked at the check and the onion strings were still on which was fine, whatever. but I had to ask if their onion strings were always that thin she said no and remembered how we disliked it and offered to see if it could be taken off. Finally 10 minutes later our dessert was brought out, and I guess the owner decided to give us a few extra for me and the little one in my tummy. thanks that was a nice gesture… ate my beignets on the way home while listening to my bf tell me how that was the worst service compared to all the other crappy servers we get. but yet the beignets were so amazingly delicious I couldn’t stay mad.
So over all our server was super nice and friendly, but just not server material at all, sorry, not sorry. we were so irritated with the little things that it ruined our dinner and made us just want to get the hell out of there, but then the food was so delicious that it was like a rollercoaster of emotions.
If we decide to eat there again I think we would just do a to go order. so then we don’t have to deal with bad service along with an almost 2 hour dinner time and still tip 20%…
Oh PS their Sausage is amazingly delicious! ;]

I didn’t even know this leave existed until i came out of the parking lot on a side I don’t usually use… And thank goodness I did.
Hubby and I went about 3 pm for a late lunch, ordered four dishes to try and were pleased with most of the food we ate. The red beans and rice were fantastic, the grits too, the fried green tomatoes were good, not a fan of the batter they use, but it was ok as was the catfish. The etoufee was great as well as the andouille sausage.
What made our visit even better was the service staff and the live music.