I'll start by saying my dinner at Red Cat is what's prompted me to join this site to warn people not to attempt dinner there! A friend of mine who'd never been to the restaurant/bar either decided to hold her birthday dinner there last night (Friday evening.) I looked online at the menu and saw normal meal prices, ranging from $10-20 per entree. The cajun dishes all sounded quite good so I was looking forward to trying something new. I understand and expect to shell out money to park when going downtown, but I felt a bit blindsided when I had to pay a $10 per person ""entertainment"" fee at the door of a restaurant. So, $30 deep for myself and my date, we'd had yet to eat or drink a thing. My date and I both ordered the catfish ponchatrain (roughly $15 per person) and had mixed drinks and a bottle of their Red Cat Reisling. The quality of the dish was really nothing to write home about, but worse than that was that I was NOT aware that I'd joined Weight Watchers when I paid at the door! It was the tiniest slice of catfish I've ever paid good money for with maybe 3 crawfish on top in the ponchatrain sauce. I failed to see any shrimp or crabmeat as the menu had implied and my side of mashed potatoes may have been served with a melon-baller! It was not the portion expected for the price and everyone at the table commented that their dishes seemed light on the food as well. But the real shock was when the bill came! I realize that we had a large enough party to warrant automatic gratuity (they generously gave themselves 18% so that our waitress could take her sweet time serving anything.) But I was outraged to find that mixed drinks were $10 each and the bottle of wine that yielded 3 glasses was $40! We ended up spending all told (parking and entertainment fees and gratuity) $170 for 2 people. And we only had 3 mixed drinks, make no mistake there! I thought that was a ridiculous amount to spend for such a crummy meal! I highly do NOT recommend Red Cat!
Cons: Service wasn't great and the drinks REALLY add up at their prices!
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