Vermilionville La Cuisine De Maman

Hearty, tasty and typical Louisiana meal with friendly service. The gumbo and bread pudding were to die for!

The cuisine is good and resembles that of mothers or even grandmothers without a doubt. Taste, generosity, simple but authentic and well cooked. The buffet format is a little disappointing on Sundays (fairly high price (especially for children) and therefore quite limited choice of dishes and meat (rice, pasta, honeyed ham and beef stew. A few vegetables but the whole remains quite simple). For desserts or gumbo you will have to ask. The atmosphere is very canteen and lacks a bit of finesse (very very noisy). However, it remains a good restaurant, especially in this area. there is little competition!

This was my first time eating at La Cuisine de Mamon...the restaurant at historic Vermillion ville and I was VERY DISAPPOINTED! I had heard a lot about the restaurant and it's chef and I wanted to give it a try and see for myself. I came around 1 pm for lunch, and the restaurant was empty with the exception of one of the vermilionville employees. It was a Wednesday, and I opted to have the plate lunch special of the day, which was roasted turkey. The lunch came with a choice of either a salad or gumbo cup, the main entre was accompanied by mashed potatoes and a mixed vegetable melody, and a dessert of bread pudding was included in the $13.95 Lunch price. I had the gumbo cup and was very surprised at the taste. It was very good and had a lot of chicken and sausage pieces in the cup. This made me look forward to my plate lunch to come...but alas, I was let down by what was presented to me. The plate was very unappetizing in its presentation, it looked like the food had been thoughtlessly thrown on...very messy quite ugly to behold. As for the taste of the food...it left much to be desired. The roast turkey was 2 chunks of pre formed turkey, and the sides of mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables were to put it nicely very disgusting in both taste and appearance. Definitely not like the food Mama used to make and Serve at home. The meal had a very dry bisquet on the side....too dry to be eaten, unless cardboard is your preferred taste. The whole meal reminded me of the bad cafeteria food I was served in High School. The one saving grace of the whole meal was the piece of bread pudding that was served at the end of the meal. It was warm and had a good tasting sauce to go with it, which helped to drown out the taste of the awful plate lunch that came before it. I do have to compliment the service, as both the hostess and waitress were very kind and welcoming. Maybe I made it to lunch on a bad day? I am told that there weekend buffets are very tasty, so I may try and make it back on a weekend to give the restaurant another try, but as for my lunch experience today, on a scale of 1 to 10...I would give it a 2..maybe a 3.

Food to salty tasting. Jambalaya and Gumbo. Ramp too far away fromm restaurant for people with walkers. Bread pudding was dry

So good! Had a salad with hamburger steak peas and mashed potatoes. Yummy