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People always say to me,
Rob, why don't you do more negative reviews? You can't like everybody?
While my philosophy has typically been one of putting more energy into
telling you where the good places to eat are than telling you what disgusting
spawn from Hell to avoid, occasionally I just have to let it fly.
So let me tell you about Landry's. Lovely Lake Austin
location notwithstanding, I understand, because of heavy advertising,
why someone would go there once, but why anyone would actually go back
is simply beyond me. In my case, it's been group pressure from other
basketball parents. Landry's tries to pass itself off as a 1940's style
Cajun-style seafood eatery. From what I've had there in the past, some
of the dishes tasted like they've been around since the 1940's.
For the appetizers, about the only thing I can muster
up some enthusiasm for are the thin and crispy onion strings. I like
those. The boiled shrimp are tasteless and flat while the seafood stuffed
mushrooms simply taste like mushrooms stuffed with an inordinate amount
of butter and breakcrumbs.
Pasta dishes? Please? Every cook at Landry's should
be airlifted to Pascale's Mainelli in New Orleans and not allowed to
return until they've learned how to make cajun pasta. The shrimp fettucine
was runny and almost without taste. The shrimp and the alfredo sauce
had absolutely nothing to do with each other, talk about strange bedfellows!
Ditto with the grilled seafood pasta. No texture here at all, worse,
no taste.
The Alaskan King Crab Legs tasted like they had
gotten sent over on the titanic they were so watery. And the soft shell
crab had no discernable flavor except butter. I wanted to taste the
crab and I was sorely disappointed. The catfish was unevenly cooked,
one end done perfectly, the other cold and lumpy and much too chewy.
And the waiter must have thought I'd ordered sushi because the tuna
steak came out resembling something I might go to a Japanese, not a
Cajun restaurant, for.
I'm sorry, I don't get this restaurant. I don't
understand it, I don't recommend it, and I most certainly don't like
it. The sauces taste like the come out of cans and they have no relationship
whatsoever with the meats and fishes they are supposed to complement
and accompany. And it's too bad, because they have this great location
on Town Lake. But it takes more than onion rings to make me happy. In
the case of Landry's, a whole lot more.
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