meat selection is top notch on the flame plancha it tasted as good as any steakhouse
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
DBL
Uniquely smoky fajita meat, excellent cuts of both beef and chicken . Much better deal than most of the other nice Tex-Mex joints, and a great patio space. Great drinks of course too
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos Birria De Res, Fajita, Chicken Fajitas
Moshe Telles
Order the extra premium margarita (prickly pear flavor) it is the best! ?
Atmosphere: 5
B Marie
Loved this place!! Customer service was awesome and the food is even better! 10/10 recommend and will be returning.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michelle Hon
Eat outside if you can. Inside can be smokey.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alex Dzeda
Food is good, manager had good service recovery (and had good service on previous visit). Solid "upscale" tex-mex option.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Otis Carper
Best Tex- Mex in town.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos Birria De Res, Brisket Nachos, Brisket Enchiladas
Frank Frietsch
Nice place good food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Maxine
Food was delicious and the service was attentive
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Luca D
Wow, great Tex Mex. Loved it. Nice to be seated outside.
Best Tex - Mex restaurant in Houston no doubt!!! We have been here 4 times since someone else recommended and it’s been amazing every single time. Thank you Alba for taking care of us, she’s an amazing waitress ??
personally, i wouldn’t recommend this place. i came here for lunch with my partner and my food was not cooked well. two days later, i was in the ER with a pain that would not let me sleep. turns out, my food was contaminated and gave me an infection. never coming back here.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
Dana Wendell
I’d like to start by saying I don’t write bad reviews. However our experience tonight was not good. I’d also like to add that every person at my table works in the food and beverage industry.Service started out fine, queso and drinks were good as usual. I was brought a Coke I didnt order, but it’s fine. I’ll drink it. Things really went downhill by the time we got our fajitas. We ordered a large combo of chicken and beef to split between the four of us with an add on of pork ribs. I immediately noticed there were pieces of raw chicken. We flagged down the waiter to bring this to his attention and he told us the beef was cooked medium rare so the chicken was too. Excuse me? Absolutely not. Medium rare chicken is not a thing. He asked if we wanted it cooked more. I mean, yeah, but also it NEEDED to be cooked more. This is not a personal preference, but a requirement. The chicken was fixed and brought back to the table.We ran out of flour tortillas and asked for more, ten minutes go by and we still haven’t gotten more tortillas. We also remembered we had asked for the add on of pork ribs to the fajitas when we originally ordered and they didn’t make it to the table by the time we had run out of the tortillas plus an additional 10 minutes. That’s a fairly long wait. So we flagged him down and he said yes, the tortillas were coming—we said okay, but asked if he had remembered to put the ribs in and he said yes, he would check on them. We said not to worry about if they weren’t on the way.Another five minutes go by, still no tortillas. We flag down someone else for tortillas. Another five, still none. We were told the ribs were coming but asked if we still wanted them. We said no. I do not think the ribs were ever coming. We wouldn’t usually ask for them to be cancelled, but we were getting full and kind of over it. No update on tortillas from him and at this point we are annoyed. So we flag down a third person, and twenty five minutes after we originally asked for tortillas they made it to the table. The meat is cold but we finish our meal.Twenty more minutes go by past the time we are done eating and we have to flag him down to ask him for the check.I noticed all of the tables around us, tables of only white people, were checked on very frequently and were seated, ate, paid and left by the time we were able to get our checks. I was the only white person at our table… it felt like the restaurant prioritized the other all white tables. Being in the service industry, we try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. But please do better.Chicken that is raw in the middle is absolutely unacceptable and we didn’t appreciate the pushback on why that chicken might be raw. This should be a no questions asked, immediate apology, let-us-make-this-right situation. I’m still flabbergasted he asked if we wanted it to be cooked more. Yes dude. Anyone would. Being in the industry, we understand how the kitchen works. The cook, expo, AND server failed to notice uncooked chicken. Being that these are fajitas so the meat is sliced, the raw portions were on full display. Literally right there on top. I saw a lot of reviews claiming food poisoning from this place and I believe it. Some people don’t know the difference between what might be a fatty piece on chicken and what might be raw. But all three of the hands our food went through should know the difference.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Queso Blanco
Will
One of the best restaurants I’ve been to in Houston. The queso is great, fajitas super yummy, but the brisket enchiladas take the cake. I could eat them all day; the meat is amazing.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket Enchiladas
Shanna Bass
We ordered the “medium size combo fajitas’ for $41 and we got the 6 slices of meat pictured below. I called the restaurant to make sure this was the correct order and I was told don’t order from here again if we don’t like- so guess what- we won’t! Not sure what happened to customer service. Sad as we have been regular patrons of this and the Pit Room for many years.
meat selection is top notch on the flame plancha it tasted as good as any steakhouse
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Uniquely smoky fajita meat, excellent cuts of both beef and chicken . Much better deal than most of the other nice Tex-Mex joints, and a great patio space. Great drinks of course too
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos Birria De Res, Fajita, Chicken Fajitas
Order the extra premium margarita (prickly pear flavor) it is the best! ?
Atmosphere: 5
Loved this place!! Customer service was awesome and the food is even better! 10/10 recommend and will be returning.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Eat outside if you can. Inside can be smokey.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food is good, manager had good service recovery (and had good service on previous visit). Solid "upscale" tex-mex option.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Best Tex- Mex in town.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos Birria De Res, Brisket Nachos, Brisket Enchiladas
Nice place good food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was delicious and the service was attentive
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wow, great Tex Mex. Loved it. Nice to be seated outside.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Medium Nacho
Restaurantji Recommends
Best Tex - Mex restaurant in Houston no doubt!!! We have been here 4 times since someone else recommended and it’s been amazing every single time. Thank you Alba for taking care of us, she’s an amazing waitress ??
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket Queso, Pork Carnitas, Smoked Chicken Quesadilla Verde, Rice and Beans, Fajita, Charro Beans
personally, i wouldn’t recommend this place. i came here for lunch with my partner and my food was not cooked well. two days later, i was in the ER with a pain that would not let me sleep. turns out, my food was contaminated and gave me an infection. never coming back here.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
I’d like to start by saying I don’t write bad reviews. However our experience tonight was not good. I’d also like to add that every person at my table works in the food and beverage industry.Service started out fine, queso and drinks were good as usual. I was brought a Coke I didnt order, but it’s fine. I’ll drink it. Things really went downhill by the time we got our fajitas. We ordered a large combo of chicken and beef to split between the four of us with an add on of pork ribs. I immediately noticed there were pieces of raw chicken. We flagged down the waiter to bring this to his attention and he told us the beef was cooked medium rare so the chicken was too. Excuse me? Absolutely not. Medium rare chicken is not a thing. He asked if we wanted it cooked more. I mean, yeah, but also it NEEDED to be cooked more. This is not a personal preference, but a requirement. The chicken was fixed and brought back to the table.We ran out of flour tortillas and asked for more, ten minutes go by and we still haven’t gotten more tortillas. We also remembered we had asked for the add on of pork ribs to the fajitas when we originally ordered and they didn’t make it to the table by the time we had run out of the tortillas plus an additional 10 minutes. That’s a fairly long wait. So we flagged him down and he said yes, the tortillas were coming—we said okay, but asked if he had remembered to put the ribs in and he said yes, he would check on them. We said not to worry about if they weren’t on the way.Another five minutes go by, still no tortillas. We flag down someone else for tortillas. Another five, still none. We were told the ribs were coming but asked if we still wanted them. We said no. I do not think the ribs were ever coming. We wouldn’t usually ask for them to be cancelled, but we were getting full and kind of over it. No update on tortillas from him and at this point we are annoyed. So we flag down a third person, and twenty five minutes after we originally asked for tortillas they made it to the table. The meat is cold but we finish our meal.Twenty more minutes go by past the time we are done eating and we have to flag him down to ask him for the check.I noticed all of the tables around us, tables of only white people, were checked on very frequently and were seated, ate, paid and left by the time we were able to get our checks. I was the only white person at our table… it felt like the restaurant prioritized the other all white tables. Being in the service industry, we try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. But please do better.Chicken that is raw in the middle is absolutely unacceptable and we didn’t appreciate the pushback on why that chicken might be raw. This should be a no questions asked, immediate apology, let-us-make-this-right situation. I’m still flabbergasted he asked if we wanted it to be cooked more. Yes dude. Anyone would. Being in the industry, we understand how the kitchen works. The cook, expo, AND server failed to notice uncooked chicken. Being that these are fajitas so the meat is sliced, the raw portions were on full display. Literally right there on top. I saw a lot of reviews claiming food poisoning from this place and I believe it. Some people don’t know the difference between what might be a fatty piece on chicken and what might be raw. But all three of the hands our food went through should know the difference.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Queso Blanco
One of the best restaurants I’ve been to in Houston. The queso is great, fajitas super yummy, but the brisket enchiladas take the cake. I could eat them all day; the meat is amazing.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket Enchiladas
We ordered the “medium size combo fajitas’ for $41 and we got the 6 slices of meat pictured below. I called the restaurant to make sure this was the correct order and I was told don’t order from here again if we don’t like- so guess what- we won’t! Not sure what happened to customer service. Sad as we have been regular patrons of this and the Pit Room for many years.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1