Tastebudz Creole Kitchen Restaurant

I may have not had the best experience, I did have take out.
I ordered several items, oxtail and lobster Mac and Cheese, chicken and shrimp with cornbread, jerk chicken with sweet potato, and steak and loaded potatoes.
I did try the food immediately while it was hot, the portion size was decent for to go containers to fit it all.
I am, however, dissatisfied with the food for the price.
While oxtail and lobster are usually expensive choices, the item was around $60, it included macaroni and cheese with some spice added, a lobster tail filleted in half, and a couple of pieces of oxtail.
The macaroni, being a praised staple item, was subpar in my opinion.
It was no better than fast food restaurant options.
The lobster was somewhat overcooked, giving it a rubbery texture.
The oxtail was okay, but nothing to make note of either.
The cornbread was also a little on the dry side, and the sweet potatoes had an excessive amount of cinnamon in my opinion.
Everything else was decent, still a little pricey for what it was.
I did enjoy the atmosphere, love the artwork on the walls, and the layout gave an open cafeteria vibe.
Service was nice, and sure I did order a lot and there was a decent amount of people so maybe my long wait time of 45 minutes was warranted, but still quite a while.
Overall, an okay place, I would recommend the cheaper items as I do not find the higher end protein choices worthwhile.
I've had my fair share of Creole, Southern and Cajun style foods and this won't be at the top of my list unfortunately.

Been dying to try this place for months because the advertising on the flyers and social media is fire! So I took my better half for lunch today. I ordered the steak and lobster baked potato, and she had the oxtails, sweet potatoes and mac n cheese.
With 2 drinks, taffy grapes and banana pudding the price was $122. I truly hate to say that it was not even close to being good food.
Overly priced, over cooked, and OVERLY SALTY!!!! Honestly it tasted like day old leftovers that someone re-seasoned and re-heated.
I TRIED BUT COULDN’T EAT IT.
Whatever they were calling steak was definitely some kind of roast.
And what they called a baked potato was chopped up red potatoes under my proteins.
The banana pudding had crushed up wafers throughout so it had the consistency of a loose cake, however I did like the strawberry shortcake grapes. I frequent lots of restaurants and I know they can be hit or miss, but to put my experience into perspective…I feel that most anybody else would have definitely complained and demanded a refund.
Overall 2 out of 10 would not recommend.

I would give 3.5 stars.
Expected alot from the place but the service was late and very random.
Had crab and shrimp combo meal.
It was way too expensive.
Mac and cheese was great though.
Ambience was great, wall painting.
The place is not bad but felt like little overrated.

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