Feb 5, 2012

Gumbo Kitchen - Croxton, 4 February 2012

Gumbo, gumbo....

Sitting on the grass in the sunshine, cider in one hand, controlling the dog with the other (cos the food smells great) with a bunch of other (much younger, well, except for Rod Quantock..) hispters. Groovy (yeh, showing my age...) tunes and blankets and lots of fixies.

We intended to just have entree before going home for dinner, but even sharing a Dom between three of us was dinner enough (well, except for the dog, but she's always hungry).

Good chips, great chipotle sauce, the beef debris certainly adds to the savouriness and heartiness, but is probably overkill - speshly for a girl spiralling towards vegetarianism.

Unfortunately, they had sold out of shrimp po boys by the time we got to the end of the queue..So we will just have to track down gumbo, gumbo again sometime soon.

and of course we finished with lemon ice box pie - sweet, sour and fat, three of my favourites... Yum!

And I'm only eating lettuce tomorrow.....

Food  -                    7
Drinks list -            4 (not licensed, which is OK as long as you remember to BYO...)
Service -                 8
Ambiance -             8 (but of course it depends on where they park...
Value for money-   6 (seemed a bit expensive for what it was)

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3 comments:

  1. Hey,
    just qualifying one comment, re: bit expensive for what it was. The beef we cook takes 8 hours, is slowly braised, then hand shredded and stirred through home made gravy. The gumbo has been recently commented by visitors as better than many restaurants in New Orleans, and we make every effort to ensure it is a top restaurant quality dish, not "fast food" as many people expect food from a truck. Oh, one last thing. In the kitchen last week we had 8 chefs hats and a Michelin star. So we are a restaurant on wheels, not a food truck. Food quality is important to us.
    Thanks
    Michael
    Gumbo Kitchen

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  2. Do you respond to these things? As a food blogger, what are your qualifications? Do you have a cert in commercial cookery? have you owned a hospitality business? have you worked in the industry? This gourmet food truck is a restaurant on wheels, not a van selling cheap food. If you ordered a gumbo from Gumbo Kitchen, i bet its going to taste better than 95% of venues around. And you get to enjoy it on a picnic rug in the setting of a beautiful garden.

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  3. Mike - I am merely a consumer, someone who eats at restaurants, a customer - you know the ones, the ones you are meant to be serving and keeping satisfied.

    I wrote an overwhelming positive review and get trolled for it. I merely wrote that I thought it a little over priced, not that I didn't like it - an opinion, BTW, I am perfectly entitled to hold.

    I voted to like it on urbanspoon, I even said that I was going to return again soon. Both of which I am now rectifying and I will telling all my friends about your rude overreaction.

    As the operator of a serivce-based business I would have thought you would be seeking to improve, searching out constructive feedback to inform your future developments. Look at some of the other reviews - they're not giving you 10/10 either.

    So be grateful for honest, constructive feedback, not a troll...

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