Evangeline Downs Inc

Rude breakfast people jump in front of you when refilling things, the front desk manager leaves her desk and locks the front door… no sign to tell guests how to get back in. The pool and hot tub where dirty and green! Food in buffet is over priced and horrible. No ventilation in rooms and walls a paper thin… you hear everything inside and out!

This place has gone so far downhill that’s it’s practically underground now. It is a trash infested rat trap. The smoke is horrible, the points are useless, food is disgusting, and service is a nightmare.

Whoa mama! This was the first place we stopped to eat in L. A after driving in from Dallas. We were told it was REALLY good food, best in the area. But let me tell ya, Our Cajun hosts won’t be taking anyone back there again for several reasons.
First we went for the buffet on the first floor, but it was $ 68 for two on this Friday night, so we went to the upstairs buffet overlooking the track. The casino employees stopped us at the elevator and gave us blue colored wrists bands and charged us $ 15/​pp for the buffet. But then hand wrote in a $ 6.08 tip on top of that before giving me the cc slip to sign. I objected but was with a group so I didn’t raise too much hell over it. They said that’s the way they always do it.
Once upstairs it was odd, very odd. We asked to be seated on the same floor with the buffet so we didn’t have women in heels walking up and down stairs with food in their hands but our request was ignored. After finding our table we went to get plates from the buffet line but unfortunately the first three plates I picked up looked like they had been washed by the horses running the track, DIRTY very dirty. I picked up a spoon and it too was covered in grime. I sifted through a few more and finally found something clean’ish. Going forward I was looking pretty closely at the food. I found a few things that seemed edible and then headed over to a lady who was working a small table with roast beef. I walked up and it was like I wasn’t even there. She just stared off blankly, it was ODD very ODD. She finally cut a slice of meat off and put it on my plate but didn’t offer anything else or do anything else. We exchange no words at all. I took a little au jus, and horse radish and headed back to the table.
The waitress got our first round of drinks and I proceeded to eat the gruel on my plate. All of it was awful. Literally some of the worst food I’ve ever eaten. The 6 of us started making comments along the lines of «Well at least they got the Tabasco right» Even my coke was off. The ratio of syrup to soda was light. The meat was cold, the food was bland, the quality was horrific. Even the icing on their cup cakes was straight up corn syrup, Crisco and food coloring.
The waitress didn’t revisit our table after the initial round of drinks. Well after we were done eating and ½ our table had left the building she still hadn’t brought our bill. We eventually went up stairs, found her, asked for the bill and paid.
I was happy that we hadn’t paid $ 68 for the buffet downstairs. It appeared as if they had exactly the same deserts and likely had the same exactly quality of food.
Whatever you do, don’t spend your money in such an absolute crap hole.
Standing track side was ok, but wear pants and long sleeves the bugs will eat you alive.

Nice small backwoods race track with a casino attached. The buffet is very good with a lot of cajun choices on the menu though oddly enough the signature dish of boudin was not on the menu when I went. There is no grandstand though there is a free area similar to an OTB with all of the tracks around the country. There is also a clubhouse area upstairs. Overall it was a fun experience and very popular with the locals.

$ 10/​seafood buffet
Considering it’s a buffer the food was good, especially the sauces put over the rice.
There was a lot of breading on the shrimp, so I cut down to the shrimp
DESSERTS WERE FANTASTIC — small (~3″ diameter) individual pecan pie as well as chocolate pudding pies were very tasty with excellent crust. The soft ice cream was unusually good.
Great buy for your money, especially if you’re hungry.

5 stars for the buffet. i’m not a buffet person. but for 10 bucks and all you can eat REAL CAJUN food, you can’t go wrong. boiled shrimp, crawfish etouffe, gumbo, shrimp pasta, shrimp creole, etc. i was impressed.
i wasn’t really crazy about the casino. i didn’t see any tables (poker) and the service was poor.

I stopped in here to check out the casino with a co-​worker while in Opelousas. The place is well kept, and there are plenty of slot machines to choose from. There are no table games to be found. Unfortunately there was no live racing going on while I was there.
If your in the area looking for something to do, it’s not a bad choice.