Le Creole is not very good. In fact, it's pretty horrible.

Decided to give it one last try tonight, and I was even more disappointed than the first two times I'd been there.

First off, the good: service was good enough, drinks were amazing.

It's too bad that the food was nowhere near the same level. If I had to sum it up, I'd say that it's like the weird shite a first year culinary school student would put together before they knew what the frick they were doing.

App - fried green tomatoes
Tomatoes either weren't "ripe" enough, or needed to be cooked longer. Breading was tough, too thick, and bland. Shrimp were way under cooked. Very under sauced.

Entree 1 - smoked ribeye
I've had some awesome smoked ribeyes before, but this one really sucked arse. It never hit a high enough temp to render out any of the intramuscular fat, leaving the entire steak riddled with pockets of chewy grossness. I normally eat the gristle attached to a ribeye, so I'm not opposed to eating fat, but this was like chugging solidified bacon drippings.

Entree 2 - cedar plank fish

Holy frick, what a disaster. The fish itself had decent flavor, and was cooked very well, but the rest of the dish was a nightmare. The potatoes were WAY over salted, almost to the point of being inedible. The "cedar plank"...how do I best describe this? Imagine cutting a limb off of an oak, slicing it with a chain saw, lighting the slices on fire and letting them burn for a solid 45 minutes, fishing one out, and throwing a piece of fish on top. That's pretty much what I got. The entire "plank" was charred, with the edges of it with a live ember. The edges of the plate were dusted in ash, making finding a non ashy piece of food an exercise in making me pissed the frick off. The wood was still porous enough to suck all of the sauce in to it as well.


So, if someone could pass thing along to Le Creole and inform them that they're trying way too fricking hard to be fancy (I guess that's what they're aiming for?), that'd be swell.

I can't believe I just dropped $113 on this shite.


And no, I didn't call the manager over or anything. Primarily because it's my fault for giving them another shot, and because the last thing I wanted was for them to offer me replacement food...I just wanted to get out of there.