Cafe Annie

05/16/09

Seriously Overrated -

by carrieg at Citysearch

We ordered a $120 bottle of wine, – the decanter was chipped at the mouth, which isn’t something you don’t expect when you spend $300+ for a meal. We tried the fried shrimp appetizer which was fried on a skewer then topped on a dry slaw with bits of lobster. I ordered my NY Strip steak medium, it arrived rare. My husband’s ribeye was not even an inch thick and very bland. The grits were undercooked and not warm. We tried to salvage the dinner with the warm chocolate cobbler, it tasted like a day old cookie thrown in the microwave. The service was worse than the food – we had to ask for the wine list after sitting at the table for 15 minutes. The server would fill 1 glass 3/4 full of wine, and the other 1/4 full. not high end at all! Such a waste of money – we literally called Mark’s on the way home for a reservation the next weekend. HORRIBLE –

• Cons: service, food

01/28/09

where was I

by frustratedone at Citysearch

We had dinner last week and was so embarrassed by the down home feel of the owners. Let me explain, when someone dines out at Cafe Annie, it is usually to enjoy a quiet dinner with a loved one, a personal celebration, or some other significant occasion. The last thing one would expect would be for the owner to sit down next to you and carry on a LOUD conversation with whomever. How do I know she was the owner? Everyone was calling her Mimi and she was making it a point that everyone knew who she was. I understand that owners & managers need to talk with their guests from time to time, but please don't sit down on a chair next to someone unless you are invited, one should stand at the table for a brief time. We are here to dine and spend money in your establishment, not to hear how bad sales are or what other companies are having a rough time, or how your family is doing. Let us enjoy our time. Even with this we did manage to enjoy the food. We are eagerly waiting the opening of their new restaurant, it is time for a change for this restaurant.

01/13/09

Had high expectations

by LilMitty3 at Citysearch

My fiane and I moved to Houston just over a year ago and are avid eaters. We love to get around the city and try out all the restaurants so we were excited to finally try Cafe Annie with a friend of ours. I viewed the menu online before we went and thought it looked great, but soon learned that the descriptions are creative ways to describe just regular, boring food. I was so disappointed by this restaurant. The chicken fried gulf shrimp were just fried shrimp that I could have gotten from a street vendor and the lobster crepe just tasted like eggs. For entrees the tuna was high quality but it was bland and the red fish was boring as well. It says it comes with shrimp and there was no shrimp to be found and the fish itself was dry and fishy tasting. Our friend had the ribeye, which seems safe but after eating part of it, he put down his fork and was finished because the flavor was bad. For dessert we had the berry cobbler which was good but essentially a berry muffin and when we ordered the grilled pound cake it was basically Sara Lee pound cake with some Hershey syrup drizzled over. I will not be going back to Cafe Annie.

• Pros: service was decent
• Cons: food bad