Big Daddy’s Bourbon Street Bistro & Oyster Bar

I was sad to see this place close. The scotch bonnet sauce was delish.

Sad to see this place close. I have good memories of this place with my fiancé before getting married.
You will be missed big daddy!

Closing July 19 — visit soon if you love this place too:
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! Dear guests,
We want to thank you for your loyal patronage over the years and let you know that as of July 19^th 2015, Big Daddy’s will be closing for renovations.
We will reopen in early September as Lone Star Texas Grill! We’ll be serving up the big bold tastes of Texas in every dish — be sure to try our authentic, award-​winning fajitas!
Leading up to July 19^th, our hour of operations will be as follows:
Sunday — Wednesday 11:30 am to 10:00 pm Thursday — Saturday 11:30 am to midnight

Quality! What a great environment for drinks or cheap oysters! Always specials that you want to try! Excellent service, great pricing, local to everything. And who doesn’t like to say they are going to big daddy’s!!?

Beautiful restaurant. Delicious food. Great portions. Super filling.
Seafood fondue was my favourite, will definitely go back!

Stopped in at 11pm on a Friday night. Our server was great, really friendly and attentive.
We started with some drinks: margarita and cosmo. Both were weak and boring.
Then we shared a giant piece of jalapeño corn bread — which we hadn’t. It was boring (as well), bland, and not worth the calories.
I then got excited about the jambalaya, which the waitress described as great. It wasn’t. It was small, uninteresting, barely any spice and barely any meat/​sausage.
I also got a salad, which was tiny with few ingredients and disappointing, especially for the price.

Went there last night with my girlfriend and had an absolutely amazing time. The food was spot on, everything we ordered was tasty, filling and looked lovely.
Our waiter was amazing!

Wait staff is extremely nice and serviceable. My meal was good but the crab cakes app was more filler than crab meat, the oyster Rockefeller app were good. My friend had the mixed seafood entrée and he liked it. I opted for the lobster and was very happy with it.

I really enjoy the atmosphere, the service was really food came on good timing and enjoyed every bit of it! The wine hmm not so much the greatest but still had a really good time!

Came here for summerlicious and had no complaints! They had good portions and their oysters bar was good too. The atmosphere was friendly and casual and they had jazz music playing… I felt like I was in new Orleans.

I’ve always gone for the Bourbon Street Bites and drinks in the bar area. It is ideal to go with a group of friends because you can taste a bit of everything, but it’s also a great place to go for a date. The food is really delicious! The seafood fondue has to be my favourite dish — it’s their signature appetizer. It’s served hot, creamy, cheesy with pieces of seafood and it is fun to dip into with the toasted pieces of baguette that come with it. The oysters are also amazing — fresh and juicy and come with a whole array of sauces to slurp up which is great for all you sauce lovers out there.
I’ve never had a bad dish at this place! Great food, great service — definitely worth trying out!

Ambience was very cozy, loved the décor I felt like I was in someone’s home versus restaurant. Wait staff was very attentitive, I think the manager even came to assist as well. We orderded the 3 course meal for $ 30. We both ordered Mussels, I had fish and chips, he had steak, desert was pecan pie and bread pudding, I was full halfway though my fish and chips, had to take deserts to go. The food was really good, my only complaint was the breading of the fish was a bit mushy insteady of flakey. We will definitely go back again.

The food was alright, we went for apps around 11pm on Mar 27, 2015. There wasn’t anything outstanding and the oysters were small.
Good service, however the food wasn’t great but wasn’t bad.

I came here last Saturday with my parents and bf to celebrate my dad’s birthday. I’ve been here several times before and so I knew the food would be good.
My bf and I ordered from their Prix Fixe menu and my parents ordered from the regular menu, getting a soup to share for their starters. I ordered their clam chowder which I had many times before and it never disappoints! The soup is smooth and creamy with rich flavours from the clams. Definitely a must-​have. I chose the steak from the Prix Fixe menu and asked for medium rare. The steak was cooked perfectly and tasted great with the cracked pepper sauce. The vegetables were nice and crispy which went well with the steak. My bf ordered the chicken from the Prix Fixe menu and he loved it. He said the chicken was very tender and moist on the inside and that the tomato sauce was delicious. Both my parents ordered the Mixed Platter because it offered a bit of everything. I tried some of the bacon, shrimp and lobster and I have to say that everything was absolutely delicious! The seasonings they used were very tasty and they enhanced the flavours of the seafood. For dessert we got chocolate ice cream and pecan tart a la mode. The pecan tart was still very hot and fresh, and the filling tasted wonderful with the perfect amount of sweetness.
Overall, we had a great experience at Big Daddy’s and enjoyed the delicious food as always. I recommend choosing from the 3 course Prix Fixe menu because they offer a variety of different dishes to choose from and it’s all worth it for the price of $ 29.

I’ve visited here for Winterlicious from before and I thought it wasn’t too special. but my bf wanted to try here. so here I was again.
Service was good.
We ordered:
OYSTERS (CHEF’S CHOICE)
This was good — had a good selection of sauces.
BOURBON STREET CRAB CAKES
Way too mushy. There were no textures within the crab cake. It’s just all mushy crab meat with a bland taste.
BIG DADDY’S SHELLFISH BOIL
Over-​cooked and not good at all :(I’d have to say the corn is probably the best part of this dish.

I have wanted to try this place for awhile now! So I was super excited to give it a go for girls night out.
The staff was super friendly and our waiter was great on food suggestions. The atmosphere was nice and quiet but I can see the bar was a happening place by the time we left.
As for the food, my group went with the 3 course prix fixe menu. What was ordered for the apps were the fried pickles, clam chowder and cornbread. They all looked delicious when they arrived to the table and it was in a timely matter as well.
However, the downfall came for the mains. I ordered the southern fried chicken and it was very good! With a touch of more sauce, it would be perfecto! Yum yum! One of the gals ordered the Jambalaya and ended up getting food poisoning from the dish. So that is a big «no no.»
In the end, it was a good experience to try a place I’ve always wanted to go too. But, the fact my friend was sick for two days off the Jambalaya makes me weary to return sadly.

Came in here for a business function and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. The only problem (for the purposes of this review, that is) is that 1) I didn’t have to pay for it and 2) the whole meal consisted of appetizers. So while the review may suffer a bit for the lack of info re $$ and how the entrees tasted, my belly and wallet were extremely happy.
The location of the place is a bit awkward and hidden from the main street, as you have to walk down several steps of stairs, and if you were just passing by and not paying attention, you’d miss it. Inside, the interior is what I imagine New Orleans is like, though I suspect that feeling is similar to a non-​Asian walking into a 70’s Chinese restaurant that overdoes its decoration with REALLY, REALLY Chinese things and thinking that THIS is what China looks like. At least it’s spacious, and boy have they got room to host MULTIPLE large groups.
Among the many foodstuffs we ordered, my favourite was the butter cajun wings, which were greasy, rich, with a bit of kick at the end (everything a growing boy needs!), while the crispy calamari were one of the better and fresher ones I’ve had, sans any rubbery texture. I also enjoyed the sweet potato fries, which were crispy without being overdone, and with a DELISHUS dipping sauce on the side.
Food came fast, service was friendly and attentive. The restaurant was empty but we did come at 4 pm, hardly the most popular of mealtimes, so that may not be a fair judgment. Overall, I realize that many of the things I mention lack full detail, but all I can say is I’d definitely come back, even just for those butter cajun wings. It’s enough to make a grown man turn into a Pavlovian canine just by the mere thought of it.
And for the half-​dozen of you who got that reference, well done. You CLEARLY were the coolest kids in school, just like me.

Came here during happy hour and all the appetizers are $ 2 off!
But you do have the sit at the bar!
Got the chef’s special oysters, which was 4 for $ 6.
The oysters were really fresh and sweet, but they were on the smaller side.
Beer on tap are on the pricer side.
Chill place to talk with your co-​workers or grab a simple meal on the bar.

I really liked Big Daddy’s.
I came here on a Sunday night for a birthday party.
We had reservations for 8 pm.
We waited for about 10 minutes as the hostess set up our tables (I thought they’d already be ready before we got there).
The birthday girl let the waitress know there would be more people coming. About 10 more. We were put in a back room (the space is bigger than I thought it would be!) but because of the amount of people, we had to sit in two separate rows because the space isn’t wide enough to accommodate a long table.
This was fine.
I really liked the fixed price menu, they had so many things to try and it was only a dollar more than the summerlicious menu ($ 26 for an app, main, and dessert!).
I ordered the gumbo soup (amazing), jambalaya fettuccini (super good), and pecan tart with ice cream (yum).
The soup was really, really good. The fettuccini could have had a bit more sauce but I definitely liked it.
The pecan tart was good, I wasn’t fond of the gelatinous texture, but the tart, pecans, and ice cream tasted very good!
I also tried the cheese fondue with chicken.
It smelled amazing and tasted even better!
I tried some of my boyfriend’s fish and chips and I don’t love fries (I love ketchup) but these fries were unreal! They were so delicious, probably the best fries I’ve had.
I also had the corn bread and butter which I quite enjoyed.
I had a cosmo which was $ 9. It was good but small.
I didn’t see any beer list in the drink menu.
I didn’t try any oysters this time around. I’ll be coming back to try those!
Our server was working hard, it was just one girl.
It did take a long time for our mains to come out and then a while for our dessert to come out after that. By the time we got our bills it was after 11:30 (ahhh, on a work night).
She did bring around some water pitchers but we drained those pretty quickly and I asked two times for her to bring more water but there were periods where we didn’t have any.
She was patient and polite and great with splitting bills though.
I think if it had been a smaller group, these little things wouldn’t have been a problem.
No matter, because I did really enjoy my meal here and will definitely be visiting again!

They have good food here, make sure you make reservations, it gets busy here even on week days.
The wait staff is a bit slow but they are all very friendly.
the chef’s selection of oysters… he always gives us the smallest one he can find and it’s not good kind if you know what I mean.
I like to get my Cajun fix here, and especially when they have the CRAWFISH Boil, I wish they would do this more often. and the crawfish arrived late this year (2014) and we were done dinner by the time it came :(so disappointed.