A pleasant enough strip-center Vietnamese place, with nothing to make it stand out (good or bad) from the other dozen or so similar places in Austin.
Decent enough Tex-Mex, in my opinion. I don't find the combo plates quite as compelling as El Gallo's, and parking in the area can be a bit of a problem, but it'd make a good lunch spot if you're in the area. Or a decent enough dinner spot if you're hitting Sixth Street with out-of-towners who want authentic Tex-Mex.
A restaurant that's been in Austin forever, and which seems to be better known for it's maragaritas than the middle-of-the-road TexMex it serves up. Average fajitas, average nachos, average hot sauce. Average average average. Service was reasonably attentive, though. OK if you're in the area, but otherwise uncompelling.
A shame.
There's nothing really wrong with trying to do upscale Louisana-style food. But Ms. B's charges high prices (nearly $30 for my trout special: yes, the portions were generous, but not $30 of generous), and the food's just not good enough to justify these prices.
Another example: bread. You get one piece of bread with your meal, plonked down on a bread plate by your server. Want more bread? That'll be $3 for the "additional bread basket". No, thanks: the bread we got wasn't worth $3.
The downtown Gumbo's blows this place away, in both the price and quality categories.
I wanted to like Mrs. B's, I really did. The advance word on austin.food was good, and Austin can always use another Cajun place. (Though Mrs. B's bills itself as a "Creole" restaurant. In theory, "Creole" food has more of an upper-class, continental flavor to it, while "Cajun" is a more hearty, spicy cuisine. If Mrs. B's food is any indication, "Creole" is a code-word for "The French Problem.")
Barring bathroom oddities, the restaurant itself is rather nice, making a classy, intimate dining spot out of the late, unlamented Ropollo's pizza parlor at Mesa and Spicewood Springs. The service was good as well, keeping my bottomless glass of Dr Pepper well-refilled. Unfortunately, the food itself left much to be desired--mainly more of it.
The only appatizers that looked tempting were the crab cakes. For $10. For a plate of two, each slightly larger than a silver dollar. Moreover, they were barely adequate crab cakes, with an interesting but unexceptional cream sauce with a bit of mustard on the side. The salads were also nothing to write home about either, though, at $3, at least they weren't hideously overpriced.
For an entree, I had a Mahi-mahi special, and I was disappointed. Actually, I was disappointed twice. The first time was when I found out that they wouldn't let you make any substitutions on the specials. The second was when I got my undersized, merely adequate entree (Dwight's trout special was both much tastier and had larger portions). The undersized basket of fries I got (the one's I couldn't substitute for the underwhelming, oddly crunchy pilaf side dish) was reasonably tasty, but the portions on both the shrimp and crawfish etoufee other diners had seemed fairly puny as well.
The food is neither good enough, nor the portions generous enough, to justify the prices Mrs. B's is charging. As much as it may dismay the people on austin.food, I actually like Pappadeaux (which gives you much more generous (and better seasoned) portions for the same amount of money) better.
An Austin standard for Ghu knows how long. Some things never change, and the deep dish Lone Star special certainly hasn't.
By and large, I have nothing much to say about Milto's that I didn't say the last time we were there. Good pizza at a good price, adequate salads, and free soft drink refills. The raspberry chocolate cheesecake was also very tasty. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.