Bistro Babe’s Cafe

I am a fan of the Bistro Babe’s Café food truck. I had a chance to try them out a few months ago at a FAVO event. I had the Bleu Bayou Burger with chips. It was solid. One of the main Babes was working and she was cool. The burger was tasty and I look forward to trying other things on the menu at future events.

Out of the food trucks they had at a wedding we went to last friday, the customer service and food was clearly the best at this truck. Great job!

I really hate when I get so disappointed with a dish that I had high hopes for. Quite a few things went wrong with it.
I ordered a shrimp taco for 4 dollars as did my buddy ahead of me. He had to wait a good while to get his. I had to wait even longer 10 or more minutes after him. Other friends I know had gone to a few other food trucks and got food a lot quicker with a longer line.
While waiting one of the works stepped out of the truck and started smoking a cigarette. I don’t care if you smoke but can you go behind the truck, or out of the way of the customers.
The workers were not super nice, nor rude just not very quick at making 1 shrimp taco.
When I got the taco it looked nothing like a picture I had seen online which featured plump juicy succulent shrimp. My taco had the tiniest shrimp I have seen about nickel sized. They looked like the little frozen ones I used to feed my pet turtle when I was a kid. Not only that but there were only 3 of them.
Because the shrimp element was barely there it caused the pineapple papaya salsa with mango BBQ Sauce to be way overwhelming and for some reason there wasn’t much flavor but more heat from the jalapenos that were there. The whole thing was really off balance. So much off balance that I only ate half and threw the other half away.
If anyone is reading this and thinking «Why the heck did she give them 2 stars for such an awful experience?» Well because maybe I think the idea is there, maybe the components to something great is there but the balance was extremely off.
Maybe something was just off that night, maybe the slow service was just someone on the first day of the job, and after seeing some if the images of the food on places like foodspotting, facebook, etc. Those dishes look pretty darn good. So I gave a little, mistakes happen but for now I can’t give them any more of a nudge.

Am I really the first to review this food truck? Wow … well, here goes!
I tried a hamburger from this truck at least a few months ago. It was my first and only time at it, so the experience isn’t quite fresh in my mind. I haven’t seen the truck out much recently and only just now began to follow it on Facebook (
). The truck also has a Twitter account, too (@bistrobabescafe). Maybe now that I’m monitoring it, I’ll see it out again soon and can try some more of its food. The hamburger I tried was excellent, though I can’t exactly recall what was on it. I’ve added a picture here on Unilocal so you can at least see its presentation. I do remember that some of the ingredients/​toppings were very unique, so if you’re into hamburgers then you may want to try the one served at Bistro Babe’s. I hope to again soon.
For now, I’m giving this four stars since the hamburger was delicious, the service was great and, from what I remember, the rest of the menu consisted of some other seemingly delicious offerings. (I recall that there were at least three things I wanted to try; I couldn’t find an online menu at this time, though, so I don’t remember exactly what they were.) Trying food at this truck again is at or near the top of my list, though, and once I do that I will post an updated review that has a little more, uh, certainty to it instead of my hazy memories.
Check out the truck’s FB/​Twitter pages for the latest and see if you can give it a shot if you happen to see it in person.
EDIT: After I posted this review, I found some pictures from my visit. The burger I had is called the Bleu Bayou Burger (see the picture I’ve added) … it had bleu or blue cheese crumbles, hickory-​smoked bacon and perhaps a fried onion ring (the picture I’ve added of the menu is a little bit blurry, but it’s looks like that’s what it says). It was awesome!