Piccadilly Cafeteria

My father came to visit me for the weekend and we wanted a place to sit down and eat but that was quick. Behold, Picadillys is just that. Cafeteria style dining was a refreshing change and the food was pretty good. The corn bread was dry but everything else was excellent! I had the Crawfish Étouffée and it was great. The waitress we had was very friendly and routinely checked on our drinks and did a great job. For cafeteria food it is a little on the $ side but it also offers better dishes than Salisbury steak. The have a good selection and I am definitely glad I gave it a try!

It’s a little dated… as well as most of the clientele. However the food is mostly nutritious with the veggies and such. I had swai fish today and it was tasty. The veggies may be canned or frozen but still good. Service was «a-​ok»! I would recommend a dilli dish — meet and two veggies for 9.99 inc dinner roll. Parking is challenging but manageable. It’s just off the service road to access.

This place has some of the best food around and it won’t cost you an arm and leg we’re else can two people eat for less than 25.00. I always have the large chopped steak and the greens and you can’t go wrong with the liver and onions. the fried chicken is pretty good too. I also like the marinated vegetable saled. Do not compare the one on Jefferson hwy with this one their food is terrible at that one is nasty.

I went to this restaurant I’ve never been to before.
Ordered food.
They charged me too much. I accidentally got a double meal. The cashier recognized my confusion and accommodated my new-​be experience.
I sat down to eat.
I ate.
Looked around.
I saw 97% old people.
This was a old folks retirement restaurant.
No wonder most of the food was soft and mushy… Though I must admit it beats in taste and quality any fast food joint, I still have most of my teeth, oh well, I had to settle for ground meat instead of a nice steak this time.

This is territory that brings nostalgia for me. Cafeteria is the key word in the name. Not a buffet. Still the focus is on a generation that is about two ahead of my generation. Better than public school food, at least back when I went to public school. My parents used to occasionally take us kids to a place similar, though I don’t know the name. My younger sister and I would have to share a meal. It was something special in my memory.
The food is kept warm under heat lamps, and is the same standard fare as a usual cafeteria. I had the chicken pot pies, which comes with two sides, I chose corn and fried okra. It was all completely uniform and met all low expectations. Free refills on most beverages. The restaurant is neat and very clean. Service is typical of a chain restaurant. I will not go out of my way to come back, but if I happen to be in the area again, I will be back.

It is average at a decent price and my kIds get a great deal. I would put this cafeteria against most diners for quality and value.
Lady week the one on Clearview changed cooks and it was By far their worse but it will get better.

I was excited to come to Piccadilly because I hadn’t been since I was a good. Well, the nostalgia wore off very quickly. I decided to try to be somewhat healthy and got the lemon-​pepper baked chicken, fried okra (I said somewhat), carrot soufflé, cornbread sticks, and pie.
Well, the chicken was weird. I don’t know, but I didn’t finish it. The soufflé and okra were good, as usual. But the cornbread sticks were unbelievably dry. The pie was… good. I guess. We couldn’t figure out what type of pie it was. There was some chocolate, some pecan, some goo, and whipped cream. It was ok. Very sugary.
Not the Piccadilly I remember. Sadface.

This is our go to place when we can’t decide what we want to eat. Good variety and selections, and the staff is extremely friendly for the most part. Food and service is much better at this location than the one on Jefferson Hwy, near Ochsner’s Hospital.

I specifically have a crush on these (4) Eastern European girls. They come from an Eastern European bloc country not too far from say-​NE Romania. If there is an elder person at the food register they ALWAYS offer to carry their tray. They hustle, never leaving a glass unfilled. Working in such an efficient team using hand signals and such, piccadilly is lucky to have them. In addition they provide much needed eye candy to the men & women. I tip them everything I have because they deserve and work for it, no «entitlement here». These are the personnel we need in our country. They deserve amnesty more than someone that sends their kid on a train alone from El Salvador. But the food is great (excuse me do you need more ketchup for your fries?) compared to that sloppy cafeteria place In Texas!!!

All the familiar things: baked fish, macaroni and cheese, corn, garlic bread and Barqs’ red drink. It was like being a kid again because while I know they’ve advertised they’ve changed their menu it was still very familiar. In a good way familiar. Like when remembering how stacks and queues work in programming. The stacks are like a stack of Piccadillly trays, Last In First Out.
After my unfortunate tire fiasco mom came and picked me up from Firestone and we decided to grab dinner at the Piccadilly next door. It’s been years since I’ve been inside one. Hell it might have been since before I was married for all I remember, but there I walked through one of two sets of doors, made way to the beginning of the cafeteria line, an army of employees ready to serve items from the yards of hot food.
If there’s one thing I can say about it. It’s consistent. Okay I can say more. The waitress came by a couple times to clear trays and check on drinks. Table was clean, no problems, mom paid so awesome!
A quick note, to everyone complaining about the bland food and old people. Be happy Piccadillly still exists. A&G has already been long gone for decades now. After you’re past 65 (or 75) you’ll be excited when the bus comes in front of the group home to bring you on your weekly outing to a place that serves food that won’t aggravate your ulcer. Respect your elders and get off my lawn.

Went here and had catfish and sides… violently sick the day after horrible stomach pains. Food poisoning fo sure. Please check out the Department of Health’s website and look at Piccadilly’s inspection:
Thank God my two year old didnt get sick like I did. My family will NOT be returning here.

I see why most of these cafeteria’s have closed around the city. This place serves school grade food with no taste in which every looks to have been made from a box and pre-​packaged. The only thing worth eating here is the carrot soufflé. I hope to never have to return here except for when I am an octogenarian like most of their customers though I doubt they will be around 50 years from now at least I hope.

Ok– I’m reviewing Piccadilly on its own merits, not in comparison to other things it’s not. Piccadilly is a cafeteria– not a fancy restaurant, not a up-​and-​coming bistro, not a romantic venue to take your date… a cafeteria.
As a cafeteria, it’s pretty good. This location is typically clean, the servers are efficient and helpful (need a straw, they’ll go get you one… kid drops his fork for the third time, the server brings a new one without even asking.) There’s a fairly wide selection of foods– all of it is decent. You’re not getting top chef amazement-​in-​my-​mouth here, but you really shouldn’t be expecting that at a cafeteria.
The food is not highly spiced and tends toward familiar, basic flavors– which means that you don’t have to worry about finding things that both great-​grandma and the picky preschooler will eat. (If you’re heading out to dinner with great-​grandma and the preschooler, you KNOW what I’m talking about– finding somewhere they’ll both enjoy can be a major challenge.) With a place like this, consistency is key — and Piccadilly is extremely consistent. The food tastes the same today as it did four months ago the last time we were here.
Honestly, I’m not going to go to Piccadilly by myself or with a group of same-​age friends or with my SO. But when grandma wants to bring me and the munchkin– I can always find something here that I can enjoy at least as much as the typical weekday stuff I’d make at home. I tend to get either the etoufee or fried catfish, personally. My preschooler loves the red beans and rice, although he will sometimes vary things up and get the chicken tenders instead. He even eats some of the veggie sides– so that’s a major plus (seriously– they deserve an extra star just for making veggies a 4 year old will eat.)
The prices are good and you get decent portions (typically one entrée and two sides and a bread of your choice.) They do a lot of specials for kids– 99 cents for a kids meal on certain days (smaller portions of one entrée and two sides and either a bread, a pudding, or a jello.) You can also often find coupons to get the 99 cent kids meal on other days. It’s wayyyyy better than taking your kid to a fast food restaurant, so when you’re having one of those «I’d rather walk on hot coals than turn on the stove» days, this is a really good option for getting something moderately healthy into your child’s and your stomachs instead of opting for a burger and fries. It’s healthier and about the same price (For an $ 8.99 meal for me and a 99 cent meal for the munchkin, that’s a full healthy meal for under $ 10 for both of us. Totally reasonable on no-​cook days.) They also have a board with «light meal» options– so you can pick one of those and keep your calorie count under 500 calories if you’re still trying to lose «baby weight» when your kid is 4 (sadly speaking from personal experience here…)
They’ve also got some 2 million high chairs (ok– so maybe just 20 or so, but a heck of a lot more than most restaurants) — so if you’re heading here with a baby or little toddler, you don’t have to worry about whether or not all the high chairs will already be claimed.
So yeah, this particular Piccadilly deserves a decent rating for living up to what it is supposed to be– a basic family-​friendly cafeteria with consistent food, decent prices and efficient service.

When in doubt, stick with old faithful.
Picadilly is a sole survivor in the restaurant war. Don’t forget about fish on Friday abd oh that carrot soufle that you pretended to make (lol). I actually enjoy the baked chicken. It’s usually cooked just right. I just wish this was a drive thru. Talk about convenience.

2.5 stars.
Lets say sometimes atmosphere really matters a lot. Food is nothing impressive.

Probably the worst cafeteria food place I’ve ever been to in my life, and I usually LOVE cafeteria food.
I had the lemon pepper chicken, cabbage, and broccoli cheese casserole. My chicken was uncooked. Asked waitress nicely to please just get me another piece and she acts as is he was in a rush. When she brings out my new piece, there was no lemon pepper sauce on it at all whatsoever. Chicken is salty. Server is wack. I don’t think I would ever come back to this place.
Nothing beats east coasts k&w cafeteria food… Worst first time experience here for me.

For some time my go-​to meal at Piccadilly is chicken strips. Hard to screw up, right? Last time I went to Piccadilly I made my usual order only to be told they were out of strips and would bring my order out in a couple of minutes. I get my sides and sit down with my party. Five minutes goes by. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. Our server says they aren’t ready yet. One of our party was late and sits down with us; when he hears I’m still waiting for my food he mentions that there is an entire bin of strips sitting on the line when he was being served ten minutes ago. So now the server for our table is saying they’re not ready when a second server comes over to see what’s going on and brings me an order of strips. Talk about confusion and horrible service. The only good thing was getting my meal comped for all the trouble.

Never again will I eat here. Not only is everyone in the restaurant 100 years old, but the food tastes like its 100 year old! Bland, mushy, gross. The restaurant is dirty and the servers are slow and inattentive.

When you feel like the world is just beating you down, don’t you just want to go to your grandma’s for a piece of pie or cake or funky jello mold?
My go-​to dinner here is usually fried fish, or baked chicken, green beans, broccoli rice casserole and fried okra. Yes, the carrot soufflé is like crack but I usually feel guilty ordering a whole dish of it so I just steal bites from my son or husband. There is also a nice assortment of pies and cakes at the end of the line. This place is usually quiet, unless you run into the after-​church dining crowd. The food can be «OK» to «Moderately tasty» but you don’t feel like you’re surrounded by hipster diners (or waitstaff) trying to look cool, kids can eat for .99 after 4pm, and the service has always been friendly and attentive in my experience. It’s not healthy and it’s not fancy but neither was my grandma and I’m okay with that.

Piccadilly reminds me of the good olé cafeteria food of my Catholic grammar school days when they actually had the «Cafeteria Ladies» that cooked the food for you!
Favorite dish is the Pecan Crusted Catfish, with Carrot Soufflé (Man beats the dickens out of Sweet Potato Casserole) and a steamed veggie. Get in, eat, get out. Really something for everyone’s price and diet needs. Kid love it because they get to pick there food. Staff has always been friendly.
Check it out! It’s not just your Grandma’s hangout anymore!