Cajun Kitchen Cafe

Incredible food and nice ambient. Fast service and nice ownership.

This place is incredible. Everything on the menu is fantastic. I usually get the same coupe items, eggs benedict and Jim's Special. Never deviating. This go around I decided to get the crispy chicken benedict on Saturday and on Sunday I tried the chiliquilies. They're always amazing, no matter what I seem to order. My favourite though is the regular benedict with apple chicken sausage instead of ham.

Steve's Chili Scramble and Rancheros. Great Champagne deal - bottle of Champagne. OJ & Pomegranate juice and Beignets to die for!!

Great spot to get some great food. Never knew how busy it gets, but well worth the wait.

We like going here for breakfast. My daughter usually gets the kids pancakes and requests that they add the chocolate chips and toppings from one of the items on the regular menu. The omelets and scrambles are good as well. Can't go wrong with just about anything on the menu.

I’m from New Orleans and this is not the Cajun experience I was expecting.

Pros
Price
Hashbrowns
Home fries
Outdoor seating

Cons
Bad service
Read on...

We parked across from the place since their lot was full and sat outside in the sunshine. I ordered a vegetarian crazie shirley’s scramble and my friend ordered the California Benedict.

My server made a mistake and brought out a different dish with meat in it, but was quick to rectify the situation. My scramble came out soon after, but the eggs and mushrooms had no flavor. (The hasbrowns and toast were good.) Also... despite the initial problem being meat... there was still meat on my plate under the hashbrowns. Apparently they had just transferred the hashbrowns from one plate to another which would have been okay except that meat makes me really sick.

The California Benedict was cold when it arrived and one of the eggs was not poached. Ry was really hungry and didn’t want to have to wait any longer so he ate it anyway. He also said he thought the hollandaise was salty. But the home fries were good.

I tried to talk to our server about our experience at the end of our meal, but he wasn’t feeling very receptive and became defensive.

Great location. Great service. Great food. Everytime. One of my favorites when I was a local and still one of my favorites when I visit. This is their newest location and it holds up to it's over a decade of goodness in and around the Santa Barbara area.

Really fast service, great food and staff that is attentive. I asked for huevos rancheros with soyrizo cause I don't eat meat and the sever suggested getting black beans since pinto beans have pork. Patio area is nice and in the morning (9:40am right now) it's all in the shade which is nice

Food is decent but they charge $2-3 more per item than the menu has the food listed for which is super weird. Plus they include the tip in the bill already (we had a group of 6), and then still bring up the tipping screen without telling you that it was included, so they’re hoping to get tipped twice. Super scummy practice, $9 waffles turned into $21 total. Be aware

About the experience you would expect at a Cafe, nothing too fancy, a bit pricey, but food tasted good and came out quickly. The mix of Cajun and breakfast food was interesting, and the place gave off much more American breakfast / brunch location style, so it almost seemed like the Cajun was on the side. Perhaps if they leaned more into the Cajun side and more away from regular breakfast location items they could address their name better, or advance the theme of the place to match the name. We were a bit surprised that drip coffee cost a bit at this location whereas most Cafes a drip coffee is complimentary with the meal. Overall, an alright experience for the price and breakfast options.