This is a long one so strap in fellas.

SO says her parents want to eat out last night and they wanted to go to Dutch's outside of French Settlemenf. I had never been so I'm like alright let's check it out.

We get there at about 7:15 and it's live music night. We get a table right away and sit down and order some waters and beers as well as a couple apps, mozz sticks and these seafood stuffed pistolettes that our server said was a customer favorite.

Our server was about 17 so she couldn't bring the beers and the bartender would have to, no problem. We get the apps in a timely manner, maybe 10 minutes or so and the pistollete app that was $9 comes with 3 small pistolettes about the size of a half dollar. We bite into them and there's nothing but bread, stuffing pretty much non-existent.

At this point we get a little annoyed and let the server know about it but not in a "I want my money back" kinda way, just joking like hey did y'all actually stuff these things?

7:30 - So stepdad and I order steaks and SO and her mom order hamburger steaks. Beers still haven't arrived. Annnnd the wait begins.

Come 8:15, still no food. Server says they're busy because of the live music night. Then she asks if we want some more beers. We say we never got the first ones. She says she's sorry and she'll get on it. Bartender brings out beers afterwards. At this point we're all talking openly about how bad the service is and the feeling in the entire dining area is palpable. Multiple people just leave the restaurant because they were waiting so long.

8:30 and we stop the server and tell her this is getting ridiculous. It shouldn't take more than minutes to cook steaks and hamburger steaks don't take long to prep either. Then she says the kitchen is having trouble getting to the orders. I say OUR FOOD ISN'T COOKING? She's like uhhh lemme go check on it. Comes back out of the kitchen and says they had started cooking on it already, wasn't buying it. We just rough it out because it's late now and there's no point in going anywhere else.

Food finally comes at 9:00. Stepdad bites into his baked potato and it's cold. He loses it

. Goes in on the server and says take his food away and he's not paying for the steak or the app. Server starts crying and gets the manager. Manager comes over and apologizes and says they've been having trouble staffing and everything since the flood happened, which is understandable. We just explain that this is our first time there and this is how you lose business. It's unacceptable to wait 1.5 hours for food with an empty dining area. Manager cooks another steak for my stepdad to go and apologizes some more.

If there's one good thing I can say about the place it's that my steak was cooked well and pretty damn good. Does not make up for the service though, we won't ever be going back there.

We also tipped the young server pretty well because it wasn't her fault. She took the brunt of the frustration but we apologized to her and made sure to let her know she did nothing wrong.