TGI FRIDAYS - Metairie

Great food as always in a beautiful setting!

Six of us went for a light dinner after a show. We shared starters which were all awesome! My brother had a salad (arugula, beets, beets, pistachios and crème fraiche) that he declared was the best he had ever eaten. Very pleasant, friendly and helpful staff. The only thing missing was a glass of wine and a couple of beers ... it's BYO which we didn't realize.

Very tasty food. Excellent presentation. Friendly staff. Nice ambience. Neat neighborhood scene. Highly recommended. The place has potential.

The appetizers were EXCELLENT !!!!!!!!!! ( Brie Brulee unbelievably delicious!!!!!!!!!) The beet salad and garden salad was refreshingly cold,crisp, very tasty and a superb bite.The entrees? Not so much: Crab and shrimp pasta had succulent shrimp but the homemade rigatoni were NOT cooked..like eating raw dough. The Taziki sauce was UNDER everything on the Gyro Platte, and difficult to access in order to spread on the pita/meat/greens combo, and the meat was soft and crumbly, almost like poorly mixed meatloaf. The presentation of the gyro plate per se was eye-catching but the arrangement made it difficult to assemble everything.The salmon was awesome, as were the potatoes and beets, but the greens under everything were too chewy and not tasty at all. The blueberry panna cotta was flavorless , but the mousse cake/pie had a heavenly crust. Coffee was strong, tasty, had NO bitterness.I would recommend Thea's for FABULOUS appetizers and an awesome beet salad but the entrees left a lot to be desired .

This was our first time at Thea but it won't be our last! Everything from the food to the service was first class. The decor is beautiful and the staff is very friendly. Love that it is a BYOB. The arugula beet salad was amazing and our entrees were equally impressive.

Thea is a BYOB so be sure to bring a bottle or two! We did a variety of the appetizers and salads instead of doing entrées. We started with the Brie and berry salad and the flatbread du jour, which was a vegetable flatbread. Both were excellent! We then got the beet and arugula salad, the truffle Parmesan frites, and the assorted crustini. These were excellent as well, definitely get the Parmesan truffle frites!!! We both prefered the beet salad to the Brie salad. We then got the Brie brûlée as our dessert. Totally amazing! A must!!!

This was our second time at Thea, taking our son and his wife. They ordered the arancini since she's from Tuscany, and even with her high bar, they loved it. My wife had the pasta with seafood and really enjoyed it . Our son had ordered the veal Milanese but missed the last one, so chose the chicken Milanese and gave it high marks. We shared an orange cheesecake and coffee, all of which were generous and very flavorful. The only glitch in service was they were short of chilled white wine "buckets", so we ad libbed with good old ice around the (byob) bottle. Otherwise, our server and trainee took great care of us.