New Orleans Creole Cafe - San Diego

The best Cajun food in SD. One of my favorite places to eat. I always make it part of my visit when in the SD and the owners are the best!

We had such a lovely experience!! Delicious food, I got the BBQ Shrimp and Rice (it was divine!!! , the kindest folks, the quaintest little place, and the best service! Go to the kitchen door to ask for a table!

A little bit of New Orleans in San Diego. We tried to get into this restaurant on our last trip to San Diego pre-Covid and hit on a day it was closed. Fast forward two years later and we found it open on our first post-Covid foray into the world. We tried calling for reservations with no luck and it turns out the restaurant is a 2 person operation and they were running a little late. There was one other couple waiting at the door at opening and we were seated outside. We ordered the Red Beans and Rice, Dark Roux Gumbo, and the Crawfish Etouffee. They offer a petite portion which we ordered and the size was perfect for sharing 3 dishes 3 way. Each dish was perfectly spiced and the flavors reminded us of being at our favorite restaurants in NOLA. The Crawfish Etouffee was our favorite with the crawfish being tender and the dish being so well balanced. The Dark Roux Gumbo was a close second with the combination of peppers in the roux being beautifully flavorful. Paired it all up with an Abita Purple Haze and we could have been sitting in a garden courtyard in NOLA having dinner. Very highly recommended!

This is a small creole food cafe tucked away in Old Town San Diego. The dining room looks like an old school room. Cute! I had a shrimp dish which was very good. I even tried the alligator/pork sausage appetizer. It tasted like the pork it was mixed with but chewier. It's best to make a reservation not because it's crowded but so the cook will know how many are coming.

This place is located right next to the Whaley House. This is the third time I went by the restaurant and the first time it was open. Got the Petit Crawfish Etouffee and the Petit Chicken, Shrimp, and Beef Sausage Gumbo. It was very homey food, but nothing was very impressionable. I didn't touch my rice at all because I felt the Crawfish Etouffee was too bland. Unsure if it's like this all the time but when we went, it was very much a one-man show, so service was slow and inefficient.