Mama Deauxs, formerly known as Cafe du Qvondayez (sp?) is BACK! and had a very typical experience today with my good friend rick daris. We were watching the cats at GAMEDAY (best west side townie bar post-Bobby T's) and decided to go check it out.
Was there an open sign? yes
Was the door open? yes
Were there multiple kids just hanging out watching crap on a tablet? yes
Were they open? no, not until 5pm
Would you like to check out the menu? yes
Are you guys working and trying to get a quick order in for lunch? *check watch and see it is 3pm* No.
Well it usually takes 15 min because we make everything from scratch and some items take longer. Ok, no problem.
What would you like to order? Shrimp Etouffee and Cajun Seawfood Gumbo.
Ok that will be 18 min, I can bring it down to the bar if you want. We can come get it, no worries.
~30 min later we both had a wonderful meal.
We both ordered a full size platter/meal and the Gumbo was like 3x the serving size as the Etouffee, no clue why. Both were really, really good.
I will definitely be back, zero chance I dine in unless I bring a deck of cards and maybe shuttle over for cocktails from GAMEDAY (unclear if they will get their liquor license, looks like beer only for now).
If everyone pledges to go there 1x a week and get one other person to go 1x a week we might just keep this place open this time despite themselves.
https://www.mamadeauxs.com/