Tessie's Place

Called and ordered food from here when I was sick . It was so bad I had to write a review so others would know. I ordered $70 worth of food for takeout. Shrimp creole, tomato basil soup, chili, gumbo and chicken noodle soup. We also ordered the mirliton appetizer and onion rings. I had gotten some chicken noodle soup from the Hobbnober on West Metairie the day prior and it was outstanding. This day however they had a different soup of the day so I decided to try Tessie's. Big mistake! They might as well poured water into a quart size container and threw in some sliced canned carrots pasta and a couple of bites of chicken. Watery and bland, no flavor whatsoever. The tomato basil soup was a complete match to the Campbell's tomato soup I could buy in a can. My husband loves shrimp creole but couldn't even eat two bites of this! The onion rings were dry with no flavor and the marathon dressing was flavorless. Complete waste of our money. If you want good food, this is definitely not the place.

My goodness, I haven't been there for years because they messed up the fried chicken, was the best around when Tessie had the place, she passed and the chicken went south. Well i looked on the website and saw some good reviews, so i ordered the fried chicken, it was not good. How can someone fry chicken without adding some kind of seasoning to the batter. Had to salt it down to eat it. Sorry. Not good.

Went for Fri lunch crowded but comfortable. Discovered a special of a bowl of gumbo w/sandwich on side.The chicken salad was delicous& I did $1upgrade to get seafood gumbo.it was great w/dark roux soup loaded w/shrimp.O f course we started w/french fried onionrings, some of the best in the city. This lunch combo is less than $10.GOOD FOOD&GOOD PRICES.We enjoyed having Jennifer wait on us.She cannot do enough to assure a pleasant visit.

Nice friendly staff at this restaurant. We ordered drinks, of course, appetizers and the main dish. There were four of us. It took longer than normal for us to get our food. This did not bother us since we were able to just have a long conversation in the meantime. Once the food was out it was a very wonderful experience. I personally had and enjoyed the Alfredo noodles and shrimp.