Shango New Orleans Bistro & Wine Bar

Fried chicken is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I’m not sure what has happened to this delicious restaurant but they literally have a hack running the kitchen. The chef really does not understand Cajun creole cuisine. You should be able to at least make a decent gumbo but no! It was a poor attempt. Really too bad, it was so delicious back in the day.

Hidden gem! Seafood stew was out of this world and so were hush puppies. Will be coming back ☺️

Heard good things, place comes highly recommended. See for yourself.

Loved the Mac and cheese and corn bread. Very friendly waitress and good atmosphere.

Terrific waitress and service, decent atmosphere, “church pews” may have be part of the ambiance but they are moderately uncomfortable, hence the 1 point deduction for atmosphere.

Been to NOLA a dozen or more times on business and visited K Paul’s restaurant every visit.

I make blacked fish and steaks at home year round on an infrared grill burner with a Hestan titanium pan with a blackening recipe I developed based on the K Paul version with great success.

I’ve always enjoyed blacked fish and steak at K Paul’s. At Shango I asked for a blackened sirloin.

The sirloin was pan seared but not really blackened and lacked the Cajun spices I'm used to in NOLA and on my own grill.

Paradoxically, the Shango kitchen delivered my “blackened” steak in a pool of A-1 steak sauce. I was genuinely puzzled. Why?

Everyone else at my table enjoyed their meals, I was the lone outlier.

I don’t send dishes back at restaurants unless they are genuinely bad or spoiled.This wasn’t bad or spoiled, it was just weird and contrary to the cuisine style Shango is trying to emulate.

It was like a cover band doing a bizarre version of the original bands tune. It just stopped making sense.

Awesome food and vibe!

Awesome unique food options that you don't get other places. This is a perfect place for a date night.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Shrimp PO Boy, Seafood Stew, Blackened Salmon

Disappointed. I have been coming to Shango for years and have always enjoyed the food, service and atmosphere. I am writing this review while I am still sitting at the table because of how disappointed I am. It pains me to write this because the food is very good, but it's amazing how the service and atmosphere can ruin the taste an entire evening. My boyfriend and I ordered and then the flood gates opened. With a couple minutes the soup and salad where served... perfectly fine, but then the appetizer came out and proceeded to get cold while I finished my salad. And then, you guessed it, just after I started the appetizer, out come the entrees. I proceeded to feel extremely rushed, very uncomfortable, and actually just wanted to get the heck out anyway since my relaxing Friday night dinner was over In a matter of minutes. I would have addressed this in person on not via online review had the waitress ask us how everything was, but she never came over to check. In my many years of dinning out, I have complained less than a handful of times, I am usually not comfortable saying anything negative but this experience can't go unaddressed. Unfortunately, I have no interest in ever experiencing that again and will not return.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 1

A wonderful evening for happy hour and dinner a Shango. Jim and his staff are great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very nice restaurant tucked away on Main Street and across from a college campus. Great atmosphere and very good service. The food was AMAZING and we'll definitely return. Thank you for a great experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bartender and food are always great!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Shrimp and Grits

Will is quite literally in my top 5 favorite bartenders of Buffalo.

The food is always spectacular,
The Service is out of this world fantastic,
And the atmosphere is 15/10.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Shrimp and Grits, Blackened Salmon

It was a struggle to give this 3 stars which is a shame because I remember when they first opened and the food was fantastic. I should have known better because the reservation was very easily available on a Friday night and when we got there it was initially empty. We were the only ones there. Back in the day you NEEDED a reservation now it’s just for show. The food was mediocre relying on sauces to convey taste instead of the ingredients themselves. I had the salmon which tasted salty and bland. The rice was meh and whatever the little round thing was i took one bite snd spit it out. We had two appetizers which were deep fried and more deep fried; and two dinners.I didn’t even finish mine and definitely didn’t want the leftovers. My companions dish looked worse than mine. Overcooked pasta and frozen shrimp the sauce was watery and only decent thing in the bowl was the sausage. He didn’t finish his meal either. The interior looks tired and the garage door was open which brought in a ton of flies. We spent as much time swatting flies away as trying to eat. I almost knocked over my glass of wine trying to swat one very aggressive fly away from my face. We left without dessert and really wished we had gone somewhere else. This restaurant needs a rethink fast or they aren’t going to be around for long. Really a shame overall.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Literally everything we ate was delicious. The grilled broccoli, the pork belly, the calamari, the fried chicken and the blackened salmon were out of this world. Service was fantastic as well. Love this place!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Fried Calamari