text: While my experience was not as appalling as the previous reviewers I too can hardly recommend a meal at The Bayou But I did after some thought choose to give it two stars rather than one so let me explain whynnThe food was not terrible It was bland and uncreative I ordered the red beans and rice with andouille sausage The hearty portion of it that I was served was pretty good but undersalted and perhaps underseasoned in general The highlight of the meal might have been our appetizer of Bourbon Hot Wings which were nice and meaty with a good spicy sauce coating themnnWhat was really more atrocious than the food at The Bayou was the decor and the service Michael R noted that the murals on the inside walls of the restaurant are tacky and touristy I will give him that but my bigger complaint was the furniture The restaurant is entirely indoors and yet the only tablechair options are metal grate patio furniture Great for an evening outdoors and necessary I understand if you need weather resistant pieces but uncomfortable and unnecessary indoors nnAnd the service was slow It took our server a long time to seat us and to bring us our drinks The appetizer was slow coming out as was the main course The time in between service and the obligatory checkin how is everything was long as well which was unfortunate because it meant that we did not even get salt on our table until we were halfway through our main course The slow service also meant that when I was unsatisfied with my drink I ordered an Old Fashioned What they served me was a watery glass of whiskey with seemingly no other flavoring it took a while to exchange it for the Nola Cola which was actually quite goodnnTwo stars or one the bottom line on The Bayou is probably still do not bother