PIERRE MASPERO'S

She says:
After being duped into eating lunch at the non-original, name-stealing Café Maspero, we discovered the real Maspero’s around the corner… the one with the really great food for a great price.

Or did we?

The Original Pierre Maspero’s is a dark, pub-like space with brick walls and tightly-packed wooden tables. It would have been charming if we hadn’t spent our entire meal shooing flying termites off our table and, at times, ourselves. While Pierre Maspero’s can’t be blamed for termite spawning season, wiping alates from your clothes simply doesn’t make for a pleasant dining experience.

At least we were about to get some really great food at a great price. Right?

Wrong. We began with the crab cakes. Unfortunately they lacked any true crabby flavor, and the texture was also off, as the cakes fell apart with a touch of the fork.

He says:
The Cochon De Lait sounded terrific on the menu (a po boy of slow-roasted pork loin with garlic and jalapenos) but turned out terrifically boring. I didn’t detect any garlic or jalapenos; even worse, I could not taste the pork. Biting into this sandwich was like eating … nothing.

She says:
I chose one of the traditional Cajun dishes Maspero’s highlighted as a specialty, the crawfish Pierre pasta. The fettucine pasta tossed with crawfish tails and a cream sauce was a lesson in blandness. I don’t think I could prepare pasta this tasteless if I tried! When a termite finally flew straight into my food, I shrugged and let it wallow in the pasta’s misery. I’d had enough.

We say:
Maybe there’s yet another Maspero’s hidden somewhere in the French Quarter, that reclusive, fantastical gem with great food at a great price. It is not Pierre Maspero’s.




Pierre Maspero’s
440 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130
http://www.pierremasperosrestaurant.com/