I thought I was visiting Hermann for the wine, but the food ended up being my favorite part of the…read moretrip. When we arrived, the restaurant did seem a little understaffed, so service was slower than usual, but thankfully I had made a reservation and we had no trouble getting seated. Even with the wait, the staff was kind and doing their best, which was totally understandable. I ordered the Zydeco pasta with crawfish, and we also shared the jambalaya casserole. Both dishes were fantastic. The pasta was basically like a rich, flavorful lobster mac & cheese -- absolutely delicious. The jambalaya casserole was topped with this amazing cheesy sauce that made it even better. The restaurant itself was such a cute spot, with way more seating than I expected, including an adorable patio in the back. Overall, such a charming place with amazing comfort food. Definitely a spot I'd come back to 100%.

Pronounced: "ZYe - di - koe". :D…read more We loved our lunch stop! Server Grant was professional, friendly, "we'll make it work for you!" kind of guy. The dining area was clean with a nice stamped concrete floor, had loads of natural light with huge windows in the back, and it had a beautiful New Orleans mural in the back. We wished for a bigger dish for the small cups of gumbo and red beans and rice because they were so good! I'm sure they'd come a bit more seasoned or spicer in the south, but in MO, they seemed to tame it down a bit - still delicious though! (And there are two hot sauces and a Cajun spice blend at the table.) The wedge salad with the homemade blue cheese dressing was delicious!! I'd order the dressing on the side though - our salad was swimming a bit... Enjoy your stop!!

A vegetarian walks into a BBQ restaurant and... -Falls for…read morethe color choices! Check out those vintage chairs near the front. -Enjoys some yummy nachos w/ jalapenos! -Has a good chat with her dining companion and then with- the server and finally with the owner. Has a patio--will have to check it out sometime!

I love finding a great new lunch spot. This is close to work and after two visits, I'm looking…read moreforward to the next one! I had the rib tips the first visit and this time was the pork fritter sandwich. Both can with fries. Friendly and fast service here and it is so much better than the usual fast food fare that is around here. I wish I had found them before.

As a native of Louisiana(Acadiana), this place is legit! I found this place when I was working…read morenearby for the week. Food was amazing and chatting with the owner was even better. I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for great food from great people!

Plan a little extra time to enjoy great food w family & friends. It takes a little time but…read morecompletely worth it for well prepared Louisiana cookin', best Andouille Sausage Po Boy I've had outside of NOLA. It's just how I like it, well seared while still tender & juicy. Fried green tomatoes & Gator Bites were a hit too. Bluesy Zydeco background music that my friends Bauer & Ed will be sure to enjoy! I-70 Travelers & Ozarks goers PRO-TIP: stop here for lunch, it's only 75 minutes away! Keep in mind they close at 2pm & reopen at 4pm for dinner.

Looking for a new place as we are visitors to this town and wanted something different besides our…read moreusuals. Ambience reminds me of New Orleans and yes I am from Louisiana. We were seated right away and the service was top notch. Waitress was always attentive. As for the food, well...... we over-ordered for sure because too many things looked good. I went to the restroom and i casually glanced at others patrons' plates. Some were just downright disgusting... Big ole crab legs hanging off the plate! Shrimp stacked so high it would almost fall off the plate. Huge plates! Pitiful i tell ya! I ordered the crawfish/shrimp ettouffee and it was different than any other i've ever had. My wife reminded me the menu says this was cajun food done St Louis style. My meal was great. Excellent flavor. The wife had some Cod and fried shrimp; again... on an over-filled plate. She had to give me a few pieces of it to help her out. My mother-in-law ordered Coconut shrimp, gave each of us a piece to taste and still had 6 BIG coconut shrimp left that she couldn't eat. If you're math-ing this, the plate had Twelve huge coconut shrimp with fries and some grilled corn. Add to all this a side of hush puppies cause my wife loves them and some cajun batter fried pickles for an appetizer, we had a ton of food. We have found a new place to go to. If you haven't tried this place, you should. I will definitely be back.

Friday night is date night, so I took my wife out for some New Orleans-style food. We decided on…read moreGulf Shores Restaurant & Grill. We were greeted and seated right away, which was a nice start to the evening. This was our first visit to this particular location, although we've dined a few times over the years at their Creve Coeur restaurant. Our server was also tending bar that evening. He was polite and attentive, although a bit soft-spoken, which made him a little difficult to hear at times in the busy restaurant. We started with drinks--my wife ordered her usual glass of Chardonnay, and I went with a Corona. For dinner, my wife chose the blackened red snapper tacos with green beans and beans and rice, while I ordered the seaside combo with cod and shrimp, served with green beans and potato wedges. Our food arrived in about 25 minutes, and everything tasted very good. My wife especially kept talking about how flavorful the red snapper tacos were. The seafood tasted fresh, and the sides complemented the meals nicely. Overall, both the service and food made for a very enjoyable evening. The only downside was the price, as the dishes are definitely on the higher side. Still, with seafood being shipped in from the coast/gulf, that's somewhat understandable. All in all, it was a good dining experience, and we'd consider coming back again for another date night.

I had an appointment late on a Monday afternoon. Afterward, my husband and I went to get dinner…read more Unfortunately, a lot of places are closed on Monday! But this place was not. There were a fair number of people there when we arrived. I think most were there having a drink (or drinks) after work. I could also tell there were a lot of regulars there. It's a dive bar. But I've been in way divier (I know it's not a real word) bars though! We were told to sit anywhere and given menus. Our server was good - friendly and efficient. My husband had been here a few times before, but this was my first time. I was impressed! Other places like this that I have been to usually have pretty crappy service, especially if you're not a regular. Our food came out in a short amount of time and everything was hot and tasted good, I see no reason not t

For a "hole in the wall" the food is good! We were there for breakfast and I had the Bones'…read moreHotcake Breakfast. 2 pancakes, bacon, eggs and potatoes if you want. It was good. Service was good considering there was only one bartender for the entire place. ONE MAJOR DRAWBACK: We were sitting on the patio (it was a nice morning) and they allow smoking on the patio....that is a major drawback for me.

Got in early on a Friday night. Super reasonable prices, delicious food, good service and the…read morepeople are very open and friendly! Place is bigger than it looks and sis I mention the food was very good? It was great! Perfectly cooked crab just comes right out of the shell!! We will definitely be back!!!

Food was amazing, well seasoned and succulent! My husband and I shared the seaside platter and we…read morehad leftovers. Ok, it was potato leftovers because we DEMOLISHED the shrimp, crab, sausage, and eggs! Highly recommended!

Good service and food…read more I went for lunch and couldn't eat it all and took the rest home.

It wasn't that crowded when I came by for dinner on a weekend. The server is extremely friendly and…read moreaccommodating. The food stayed hot while I ate, so it made the meal enjoyable. I feel like the shrimps weren't as fresh and the snow crabs were over cooked. I'd like to point out that it's ridiculous for the sausages to be separated from the combo. It was quite expensive to come over here, but for the birthday experience. It's not too bad.

Came here with a friend for a seafood boil! The inside isn't fancy, just pretty spacious with some…read moredecor, but it's really more about the food than the atmosphere. The waitresses were fast, came right over with menus and took our order quickly, and the food came out fast too. We were a party of two and shared two combos, but I noticed other tables ordering one combo per person which works too depending on how hungry you are. The snow crab was so juicy and the mussels were super fresh. We got the mixed seasoning with no spice, and the potatoes were sooo good to balance out. The corn was amazing, and the shrimp was enormous and so juicy, I'm not sure how they got it that good. The sauce leans pretty salty, and I ended up drinking like three cups of water, but eating it with the potatos balances it out. Price point felt fair and I left stuffed!! Would definitely come back.

My friend and I went here for dinner. We each got the snow and shrimp combo…read more The sauce has plenty of flavor. The service was okay. The shrimps seems smaller in size than a few year ago. The amount of food you get is definitely less than before which probably due to the rise of food cost.

We lived in New Orleans for 10 years, so we know what New Orleans food should taste like. Our…read moredinner was delicious, not really what we expected in St. Louis!! We will be back.

I've eaten here literally a million times, going back to when it was Joey's. I'd suggest that there…read moreshould be a life-size statue of me at the door along with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, but it might have a negative impact on sales, due to my haters, and I'd hate for this place to have to go out of business. Already, there are signs that things have taken a turn for the worse. They're playing music via an ad-supported Spotify account, complete with Rocket Mortgage ads, and the tables are covered with ads for vinyl siding companies that probably prey on the elderly. The latter is an especially sensitive issue for me as I get on in years. Just because I look dumb doesn't mean that I can easily be taken advantage of. No but really, as many times as I've been here, I don't know that I've had anything other than the (pejorative-sounding) Rajun Cajun, the Seaside Combo and the Fish Tacos. I used to get the Rajun Cajun, but I gradually shifted to the Seaside Combo, which seems oddly generous, given that it comes with six shrimp. It's not exactly inexpensive, but it doesn't seem so unreasonable, at a time when you have to sign up for Klarna just to eat at McDonald's. The shrimp they use are surprisingly decent quality. They're probably not quite jumbo, otherwise they'd describe them as such on the menu (why waste the opportunity?), but they're not far off. The cod planks, on the other hand, are a tad skimpy, somewhere in between the fish stick you'd get at a good elementary school and the ones they serve at Long John Silver's. You get two with the Seaside Combo, and with an order of Fish & Chips. I wonder if they have separate, larger planks that they use for the Fish & Chips. The list of sides is longer than you might think. Some of them carry an upcharge, and it's not always clear why that's the case. Spinach, for example, costs extra, as does corn on the cob. Who'd pay extra just to eat spinach, Popeye? I've only ever gone with the fries and coleslaw, neither of which is regarded as premium, though I'd argue that they're the two best things you can get with fried fish and shrimp. It's hard to mess up food that you're just tossing into a deep fryer, but credit where credit is due: my fish, shrimp and fries were amazing (as was the coleslaw). They were generously battered (by hand, supposedly) and cooked until perfectly crisp. They must be making use of the timers on those deep fryers. They may have purposely cranked the volume on the ad-supported Spotify so we wouldn't hear them going off. If they did, that was smart of them. Pro Tip: Sprinkle Slap Yo Mama on everything, including the coleslaw. Don't sweat the sodium content. The world is obviously coming to an end sooner rather than later anyway. But don't bother with the signature spicy-and-sweet hot sauce, which is gross. I appreciated the way the fish and shrimp were artfully arranged on the plate. But they buried the lemon wedge, and I didn't notice until I'd already eaten one of the shrimp. So that was definitely a missed opportunity. I'd suggest that they invest in slightly larger plates, but I shudder to think what they might have to do to finance that.

Delicious! We had gumbo, mahi mahi tacos that came with red beans and rice. The gumbo came with…read morehomemade cornbread another plus! The service was great. We sat on the upper deck overlooking the river and the ceiling fans kept us cool. Next time we go, I want to rent a pontoon boat and then have lunch.

I recently visited the oyster Bar and this was my first time, however i'm not sure if I will be…read moreback. The good and the bad, I'm not aware of how many entry points this restaurant has but anyone with high heels, but more importantly elderly with a bad back or knees may have difficulty reaching the establishment. I ordered a catfish platter, now the fish was fried crispy and was tasty. The fries were good as well however, I subbed a scoop of red beans and rice for the fries but for the price and the name platter that maybe a little miss leading. Please take a look at my picture below