Don's Specialty Meats

The plate lunch was fantastic and perfectly seasoned. It was a good healthy portion. No complaints here.

5 star experience. Quality of meats and service is A1. Purchased oysters, rabbit meat, turducken for Thanksgiving, and green peppers stuffed with crab meat. All items were excellent. Looking forward to cooking on Thanksgiving. Thanks for making my experience amazing. Excited about future purchases.

This place is amazing soooo much to choose from. Sausage and boudin is awesome. Can't wait until I go back that way.

Quality control is gone, ordered a pound of pork cracklins, product was ice cold and hard like a rock, I understand they won't be steaming hot, but these were literally cold, called the store and the mgr says, what do you expect they sit in a plastic bucket😐, on a previous visit, I received the same thing but thought it was a one time incident, apparently not. I'll just stop going, just thought I would share.

Chicken cracklings cold and over cooked. Chili dogs 🤢chili taste like watered down extremely minced meat with sugar, no chili powder, garlic or salt. The dog is a large Vienna sausage only a canned Vienna sausage has flavor whereas this didn’t. You folks should be ashamed of yourselves ‼️ Also there was no Coffee. Everywhere in Louisiana there’s fresh coffee 24/7 except Don’s 🤷‍♂️ staff unpleasant and moping around. Huge store only 5 customers at the time. Mark Cole & Billy Frey are only competing for the biggest bank account and popularity. Zero morals left. Customers and customer satisfaction no longer of importance to these people

The people associated with this place are 100%worried only about themselves if you are any kind of a good hearted person I suggest you stay far away from this place their products will stop your blood flow and the way you will be treated regardless of your loyalty will be completely against all Human logic if your children get a job here send your name we will pray for you one long sentence cause they aren't worth another breath👎👎

Just stopped by for boudin nachos and a boudin egg roll. The chips were exceptionally stale and I was given a seafood egg roll that I am allergic too. The food has really gone downhill lately at this location.

Stopped for boudin and stayed for lunch. The grilled shrimp Po Boy was fantastic. My wife had crawfish pistolette and we shared and order of onion rings. Too bad we live 1000 miles away or we'd be there on a regular basis. Quite a treat!

Always look forward to stopping here when passing through. Boudin balls and chicken cracklings are our favorites. All the people who work here are always friendly and upbeat. Sometimes we fill our cooler with food and some of their specialty products. All so good!

I am so glad I tried this place. Service is outstanding! That alone gets them 5 stars. The Boudin and Cracklin was a first for me. I loved it. The beef and pork smoked sausage was a huge burst of flavor every bite. I will definitely be back here and I hope y'all give this place a chance. Tons of different meats to take home as well.

Chicken cracklins - trust me..... get TWO scoops. We also love the stuffed chickens to cook later.

This is a lunch counter and little convenience store with clean restrooms. Had the grilled chicken salad. The chicken was perfectly seasoned and the lettuce was fresh, not from a bag. Was pleasantly surprised there was a salad option and it was made with fresh ingredients. Took about 10 minutes to come out and we ate at the outdoor tables which were also clean.

We picked up boudin balls and boudin using their drive-thru. Service was great. Happy smiling face, great attitude. Boudin balls need to be redesigned. The outer coating was terrible. Probably the worse I've ever had. Boudin was a bit better. Was not dry. Was a bit to much white pepper giving that lingering taste making you look for a drink to calm it down. Location is handy. I'll try again in about a year

If you are looking for boudin balls this is the spot. They are big and meaty and not full of rice like some places make them. The pepper jack version was ok and the cracklin was a little hard but if you get them freshly prepared they would have been better. This Is my first time at the new location off of highway in Carencro which is very convenient. There are plate lunch specials daily and a number of specialty meats to choose from.

Texas born - and my particular area has a lot Cajun influence in TX... I always stop here to pick up my boxes of boudin ( makes a great gift, snack or dish to serve at a backyard gathering) . I can prepare them better my way by throwing them on a grill!! If you're a pork grind fan don't forget to pick some warm pork grinds up!! I also get a bunch of their andouille sausage and freeze it for when I make gumbo. The also are a McWare dealer- McWare only supplies to local family owned businesses and not big box corporations to help give small businesses a competitive advantage. Check McWare out too!

This really should be a five star review. I went and had one of the plate lunches the beef tips over rice and it was stellar. Very very good food for a reasonable price. The Wi-Fi did not work. I asked three employees to give me the Wi-Fi password and they all said that they weren't authorized to give it out to anybody even though it was a guest Wi-FiOne girl flat out told me I'm not even trying to get you the password. It was rude. You lose two stores for poor customer service and no Wi-Fi

A legit boudin etc. Take it and go - indoor area kinda sparse. The meat market is strong

Ok so after being gone for a year I was so ready for some Billy's boudin but I was so disappointed after $60 of hot food and it not tasting the same ata lo I decided to try the new Don's. I'm not a fan of their I-10 location, never have been. The new Don's on I-49 and hector Conlley is amazing! First of all I was impressed driving up. I know it's new but it was just sooooo clean. Walked inside to their very large store and took a gander at everything. We ended up with boudin and cracklin. I wish I wasn't full I'd love to eat more. The boudin was perfect and cracklin seasoned just how I like it. As I was walking out I saw slush puppies! I haven't seen those in 15 years! I was so excited. Two thumbs up. As you are checking out do yourself a favor and buy a popcorn ball... or four. Huge but addicting. They are locally made and sold at very few stores. Worth the drive! Enjoy. I did.

This is a new location that just opened a few days ago. This is a great new dining and specialty meat market in Cajun country. They have separate ordering counters for boudin and cracklins. There is a different counter for ordering plate lunches and various other foods. Outside they have eating areas. I would highly recommend this place if you're looking for authentic Cajun meats and specialty items like boudin.

I bought cracklings. Quality control is poor. I received more pieces of hard meat than cracklings. 20 years ago there was better quality control. I don't know what is going on now. Don you used to have the best cracklings in all of south Louisiana. Not anymore

We ordered a large selection of various meats and had them shipped. They were packed well and arrived frozen solid. The Boudin was fantastic and had a little spicy kick. Order lots - probably my all time favorite Boudin. The Andouille was very good. The Tasso was spicy and very good. The Hot Pork Sausage was spicy and great. Shipping was expensive but that is not Don's fault - the markup is reasonable.

Barbecue on Sunday is good but NO barbecue sauce on meat. Asked for sauce and disappointment when told smoked barbecue. Cracklings pieces & specialty meats keeps me coming back. Boudin balls are too tiny. Such a clean spot and excellent services.

Had items shipped, Boudin and Cracklins. Both were awful, awful, awful. The Boudins were not authentic at all. Too much pot quality, tough meat, not enough rice. All I could taste was pepper. Worst Boudin I've ever had in my life. I am from that area of Louisiana. I grew up eating real genuine homemade Boudin that my grandmother made. I know Boudin and these Boudins I received from Don's, I threw away all of them after the first bite of one. Real sad and a waste of money, lots of money. Including the Cracklins that were hard, overcooked and had a burnt taste. I purchased 2-1.5 lbs jars that I had to throw away. I've been to Don's before, in person and it wasn't like this. But that was years ago. What happened? Maybe new management, I don't know. I even wrote them an email directly, to let them know how dissatisfied I was, they didn't respond.

Great service. We go every time we are in town. Food is delish. Hambugars on Saturday is a must try. You will not be disappointed.

Excellent selection! Clean, neat, new and well organized. We were sent here to pick up boudin balls for a friend and enjoyed the shopping experience.

My work buys their burgers for events and they are great every time! They also have some pretty good plate lunches too during the week.

Tourist trap. Post-Lockdown cracklins are now over $21 per pound - not much spice on them either. The plate lunch was ok. The shrimp poboy, which is NOT made on poboy bread... had 12 shrimps on it. Wanted ice water not soda...ice for water was 35 cents per cup...really? It's just ice! We just got drinks out of our car cooler and we sat outside to eat...and to top it off you are charged an extra 4 percent if you use a credit card... bet you didn't see that sign on the door!

Stopped by for the plate lunch special at about 1 pm. Out of the stuffed catfish so I got shrimp etoufee. Was asked if I wanted fried fish with it. Fish was cold, mostly just skin. Looked like and had the texture of cracklings. Horrible! Asked for tartar sauce and had to pay extra for that. Menu said it came with bread pudding but I got fruit salad on my plate. Carrots also cold. Etoufee was good. Might try it again but very disappointed.

What better way to end an all girls trip than to get some fresh fried crackling's! It melts in your mouth and has a bit of a bite to it! *drools*

I tried the boudin anxiously and was immediately disappointed. Bland. I should have given another dish a try but was only focused on the boudin. Plus after my Saints lost to the Cowboys i needed some consoling; with this food the loss was more painful. I've had plenty of boudin in my young life, this place has no merit. I would be stopping here again unless i need to potty.

It's been a while since I've had any but as I remember; the best boudin I've ever eaten came from this meat market. My parents used to ship it to me in Iraq while I was in the marines!

I always feel uncomfortable in there. I'm 37 and I feel like there's no adults working in this store. If your not a local (meaning they see you every day) they treat you like $hit. I've bought meat from them one time and was so unhappy with the service I only shopped there when I had to. The meat was nothing special. I could have gotten it anywhere. But really I don't like this place for there service, and I live a mile down the road. Yup I drive an extra couple miles to not shop at Don's...