Bourbon Street Grill

I come to their eaton centre location all the time for the blackened chicken Caesar, I absolutely love it, it’s a big serving and tastes absolutely amazing!

This is the location in the Eaton Centre food court.
It’s ok. It’s definitely not gourmet. It’s just average, bland, mall food court fare. The meat is either heavily battered and sauced, or in the case of the namesake bourbon chicken, it’s just «meh». In the case of the battered dishes, sometimes you get a piece of «meat» that is actually just solid batter. Unless you go at a busy time, the food can look like it’s been sitting there for a while.
On this particular day, they had 99 cent drinks. So that’s good.
One issue is that the cash register is a bottleneck, so the line backs up and blocks the counter. This means you can’t see what you’re ordering, which can be awkward if you’re not a regular here. In an effort to relive the bottleneck the employees here will take the tray for the person next to you and try to force your tray off the counter while you’re paying. As if you have anywhere else to put your tray while you’re waiting for their terminal to load.
I bumped them up to 3 stars because they’re slightly better than Ruby Thai, in the same food court.

This is one of my favorite food court places at Eaton Centre. Recently there are many great places that offer healthier options, I am second guessing their meat dishes, however Bourbon Street Grill has tastier meat than other place. I especially like this place because they always have mashed potatoes and about five different veggie options. It is really hard to find food court dinner with tons od veggies and mash, most times it’s just junky meat, fried rice and noodles.
I was also impressed that the veggies were not an oil bomb, as it can be. And of course, the mash are from the bag but at least they offer such option.

Yikes. And double yikes.
I’m assuming this particular section refers to the Bourbon St Grill in Eaton Centre. Which I just went to today. And I can safely say I’m never going back.
Look, the whole Bourbon Chicken thing is pretty weird according to me. It’s very much like the Island Chicken in Caribbean Queen, and some sort of chicken dish whose name I’ve forgotten — in California Thai. All these quasi-​pseudo-​fusion-​Asian-​confusion food court places that attempt to do an «east meets west» thing. I don’t mind it, but I think it’s really overplayed.
It doesn’t mean that it’s not delicious, because I’ve had Bourbon Chicken at the Markville location many times before and it was delicious. The one here was: bland, tasteless, a bit tough, and utterly lacking in sauce. Fail on all counts. The rice, also a glistening moist decadence in the Markville location, was also dry and uninspired. The green beans looked like they barely wanted to even be there.
This isn’t healthy food, so at least make it TASTE good. But not this one. If you signature dish sucked so hard, I don’t want to know what the others are like. Abject failure on all counts.

I actually ended up buying my dinner here after trying a sample, which definitely peaked my interest because of the sweet and sticky barbecued meats. My friends and I were tired of walking around Eaton Centre so we decided to grab a bite but because of clashing food preferences, we ended up at the food court rather than a restaurant.
At the time, I had never seen Bourbon Street Grill before so I thought that I would give it a try and I’m glad that I did! I spent around $ 10 or so getting some meat and vegetables served on a container or rice and I was fairly happy with my dinner.
For some strange reason though, I did not enjoy my second meal here as much and it simply tasted over-​dressed in sauce. Their food is decent for the price and I would say that this vendor is one of the better ones at Eaton Centre’s food court.

Not the greatest, no. I went at a busy time and had the bourbon chicken. The sauce tasted watered down and the I wasn’t impressed with the vegetables and jambalya rice that I had with the chicken. The service left much to be desired since they were just rushing everyone through.

Took the 2 meats plus pasta and veggies. Sadly, the best part was the zucchini. I left nauseated — the flavours just didn’t go, and something smelled wrong. I left hungry and I will certainly not return. Thankfully, there are many other options in the food court.

Omg this is good food. Everything except the blackened chicken is worth trying. Go here instead of Ruby Thai. Don’t even try to compare this with Manchu Wok. Manchu Wok? More like «Man You Sok!» The BBQ chicken on Bourbon rice is scrumptious. The shrimp is delectable and don’t get me started on the rice… I can’t keep writing, I’m tearing up.

Keep in mind that Bourbon Street Grill is food court food, this places serves southern food like Manchu Wok serves Chinese food. For what is, I think its an exceptional value for decent food.
You’ll get a very large portion of rice/​meat/​chicken for not much money. I’m a big fan of the jambalaya rice but I haven’t tried the noodles. The sauce on the chickens are all sugarry but I still like them. They are very generous with the meat here, I usually get a combo #3 (two meat items and one vegetable item) which comes to $ 11.93 after tax and is enough food for two meals.

I’ve never had Southern food so don’t have anything to compare this to but like Mike S. said the Bourbon style chicken was a little sweet and sticky. When I went they let you sample the different kinds of chicken.
My order came to $ 8.46 for 1 main, some rice and vegetables which is the standard price for meals in this new food court at the Eaton Centre. (They serve the food in reusable dishes and real cutlery.)
Ample seating — good for people watching but when I went it was a little hard to find empty seats since it was so busy.