Cajun King

Nothing Fancy but you can’t Fancy, anyway. I’m here for the FRIED CHICKEN!
It’s a completely unpretentious establishment that’s great for large amounts of good food. Of course, not everything in the buffet is gonna be super excellent… but if you stick to the fried chicken, mash pot, and mac n cheese… it great.
I would think of it as a self-​serve fried chicken lunch place and would definitely come again.

3.5 stars, actually. For the price, I will say that the food is worth it. It is not as ghetto as you would be made to believe. Its not in the best neighborhood but there are other businesses around it. Street parking leaves alot to be desired but we found a spot easily right next to this corner business. The place is clean and I felt comfortable. I wasn’t clutching to my purse.
They charge for water, and claim it’s filtered, which I find pretty cheeky. 80 cents.
They have a decent variety of food arranged on a twenty foot buffet line. I admit I didnt try everything, but everything I did try was pretty good. Fried catfish was excellent. Red beans were good, along with the smoked sausage on the side. I loved their cabbage… but I am an all around cabbage lover.
Theyre pretty good about keep the food filled, but I did come across some pretty skimpy pork chops. that is until a new batch of juicy pork chops came in. I didnt see any ribs that I had read about on other reviews.
The salad part was tiny, hardly noticable. The fruit were pears, pineapples, and oranges. And dessert was some coconut covered white cake and brownies. Brownies weren’t bad.
So, after every meal at a new place, I ask my wonderful boyfriend if he would come back again. I always tend to agree with his opinion. So the verdict is YES. BUT, only if we are in the area. The food is worth the price but not if we have to go out of our way to get there. Dont be scurred of the hood… lol.

I might go 3.5 stars if possible…
The ribs, chicken and pork chops were great.
The mac n cheese, mashed potatoes and
gumbo should never be served again.
$ 6.99 +1.89 soda w/​tax is 9.72.
Fair enough deal to eat here.

The food was disgusting! It was nothing more but a spurious take on authentic New Orleans soul food. The Mac and cheese was a congealed mound of indistinguishable orangish– yellow stuff. The fried chicken was cold and greasy. The gumbo faintly reminded me of something that came out of a can. The best part was the Coke and they obviously didn’t make that.

Eating at Cajun King is an experience in and of itself. I stopped by with a friend on a whim after dropping her car at the nearby Boudreaux’s Automotive. We joked about stopping because of the cheap $ 5.99 price tag and then figured, «hey, what the hell. why not?»
It was crowded on a weekday lunch hour. Signs covered the restaurant telling people to not waste food by getting more than they could eat, warning customers that the numerous cameras would catch them if they tried to smuggle food out of the restaurant, and letting everyone know that there was a 90-​minute dining room time limit. A buffet plus a water cup and tax came to $ 7 and some change. The food choices consisted of typical soul food (delicious buttery cabbage, spicy fried chicken, mac & cheese, cat fish, etc) and some Asian fare (fried rice, sweet & sour chicken, egg rolls). Everything tasted pretty good but we were so stuffed from the first go-​round we couldn’t make a return trip to the buffet line.
If you want to get bang for your buck and some unhealthy yet satisfying buffet food then check Cajun King out.

This place is… ghetto. But it didn’t stop me or my conservative parents. We walk in, and the space spells g-​h-​e-​t-​t-​o. No matter. We walk up to the register and prepay, grab a table, and take our Styrofoam plates to the buffet. STYROFOAM. Plates.
Anyway, there is probably 15ft of counter space for food, the standard stainless steel buffet aisle. Although there is a decent selection of spaghetti, fried chicken, greens, mac-​n-​cheese, etc the BEST items are the fried catfish and red-​beans-​n-​rice. For the last two aforementioned items, I was even tempted to give them 5 stars. Crazy, right?
The fish is amazingly fresh (based on one encounter). The batter becomes secondary because when the fish is this good, it overrides any deficiency, if any. Then the red beans n rice? Holy moly. It taste just like Popeyes. I like Popeyes but at $ 2 for a small container, you can get as much as you want at Cajun King for less than $ 6 or 7, buffet style.
Beast. Simply Beast. P. s. The desserts and fruit are typical of any low end buffet but hey, at the least the brownies were decent.
Overall, the food is amazing especially for the price. Funny thing, they have a sign saying you can’t eat more than 90mins. Weird right? I guess freeloaders who hang around really want to get double their money back, and then some.

DON’T DO IT! Returned to New Orleans last weekend for a temporary visit and spent my very last six dollars to try this buffet (my friend and I had been eyeing it since before we left the NOLA in December).
I would have rather had a double cheeseburger at McDonalds. Seriously, the buffet portion was not even worth the price as I could not fill up on the selections piled up.
Everything was passable. Each time I got up to try something new on my plate I was dissapointed. DON“T DO IT!

Excellent buffet for the price! You can’t go wrong! Always hot and they never run short of food! You have all the fried fish you want, greens, cabbage, baked chicken, fried chicken and more! Enjoy!

Yes, it’s 6 bucks… But the food wasn’t the best. im stuck between OK and Ive experienced better because while the selection was good, the food itself wasn’t. The reason it’s cheap is because everything there is available in large quantities for cheap, and what they had reflected that. Half the items were things you could find in the frozen food or already prepared aisles, such as pre made egg rolls and potstickers and dried out barbeque pork that had dried up from hear lamp exposure. The fried chicken was mostly gristle, though the hushpuppies, collard green, and jambalaya was good.
There’s far better selection in NOLA.

$ 5.99 is not a lot of money.
I’m looking on my desk and see a can/​bottle opener, a pepper grinder, an empty bottle of some organic raspberry beer, a broken fleur de lis antique table lighter and a few valiums. Each one of those things cost about 8 bucks each and they all just pretty much suck when compared to the $ 5.99 all you can eat buffet meal I just had.
Now if you blindfolded me and we played — Which gumbo came from Creole King and which came from Liuzzas by the Track, it is admittedly no contest, but you can whop up your plate with a big freaking pile of a variety of New Orleans and try above average, if ot incredible versions of all of it. Or several plates.
Theirried chicken is better than the much overrated McHardys around the corner, mac and cheese is passable, fried catfish as good as most joints and boiled spicy sausage is delicious wherever you are, its not sublime (whatever that means,) but it is good, especially with their home made tartar sauce).
They had veggies if that’s your bag, but luckily they cover the broccoli in so much cheese sauce you cant even see the green. With lettuce, chicken, hard boiled eggs and bacon bits and vinegar I even invented what I now call the Seventh Ward Cobb Salad.
The sweet Asian cashier was singing along to the 89s lunch power hour so I got to hear her renditions of REO Speedwagons Keep on loving you. that was worth $ 4 right there making the meal really just $ 1.99.
When I left, I didn’t walk, I waddled. Sometimes I think New Orleans isn’t the healthiest city.
If your heading to Jazzfest its right along the way… so take a stop and support a local business and see and taste a day in the life of working class New Orleans food,
Really $ 5.99 is insane. I ran the numbers, it makes no sense. Even if they are fishing their own catfish and frying my escaped chickens, I dont see how it is so cheap.

Buffet $ 5.99 All You Can Eat, Monday-​Saturday 10:45am — 7pm. Today as add-​ons they had boiled crawfish for $ 2.29/lb and boiled shrimp was out but $ 4.99/lb.
Po Boys $ 5.99 and $ 6.99. Photos of all the food are displayed above the register.
A couple 30″ LCD TV’s on the wall, local radio station playing. Clean and new.
I put several photos of the buffet and one of outside up.
P. S. Giving a 5 star review to get some more Unilocalers over here! I’d rank it 4.1 star, but want to encourage more reviews!