Yesterday was our two-year wedding anniversary.  To celebrate we choose a restaurant that we hadn’t been to before, Gumbo’s Louisiana Style Cafe.  It didn’t hurt that I had bought a coupon a couple of months ago from LivingSocial (similar to Groupon) that gave us $50 of food for the $25 the coupon cost.  We had a couple of other ideas for dinner, but those restaurants were all closed on Mondays.  Anyway, we arrived between six and six-thirty to find Gumbo’s mostly empty.  Again this might be due to it being a Monday, but I was a little surprised.  We were seated at a nice booth table and service was very quick.

We had already decided to try some gumbo before ordering meals.  Kim went with the chicken and sausage, while I ordered the red beans and rice.  Both of these were delicious, though I’d give a slight edge to the chicken and sausage gumbo.  The red beans and rice were fairly typical, but not that it’s a bad thing.  Our server was excellent, suggesting other beers when the one I had chosen was out of stock, as well as voicing her opinion during the crucial entrée selection.  Kim decided to have the pistachio crusted Mahi, which is served over roasted shallot jalapeno cream sauce, topped with sautéed crabmeat and grilled asparagus spears.  Our server commented that this was her favorite.  I decided to have the blackened chicken pasta, typically served over tomato basil sauce.  However, the server recommended that I order it with the mushroom bacon garlic sauce, which I did.  Both of our choices were delicious.  Well I’m assuming Kim’s was delicious, as I didn’t try it, but she did finish the entire piece of fish.  I was glad that I switched the sauce on my pasta, as I thoroughly enjoyed every last bite.

So the food was very good, the price wasn’t overly high, and the service was excellent. I’d definitely recommend this restaurant to any fans of creole food.