Steamboat House Restaurant

My husband and I met some people for dinner one evening, and were excited to check it out since we are moving not far from there in another month. The restaurant is impressive looking from the outside and even more so on the inside. Once we made it past all of the fascinating historical Texas memorabilia our experience immediately went down hill. The young girl serving us was friendly, but entirely unattentive. I made the HUGE mistake of ordering the special, which was supposed to be blackened red snapper. It took 50 min. for our main course to arrive; thankfully we ordered an appetizer. My order looked a little odd, when they put it in front of me, but I was hungry and dove in to try it. For one thing, it's never a good sign when you need the steak knife when eating fish. Oddly enough it was cold, round and long like a pork tenderloin and nothing like a snapper filet, and curiously void of any flavor. I sent it back, which by the way is only the second time I've ever done that. The manager rushed out when informed to assist. I handed her the plate she gave my fish an odd look and then attempted to poke it with the fork. When she was unsuccessful she rushed it away and offered to bring me anything I'd like. I graciously declined since I now had a touch of a sour stomach (which got worse later that night, and Tums didn't fix it either) and shared my husbands steak and shrimp, which was alright.

Even his meal was a little reminiscent of Golden Corral. Eatible mind you, but not anything even approaching what you'd expect at a self proclaimed "up scale" Texas steak house.

My suggestion: Go in to the seperate bar area, enjoy a coctail or beer, paroose the Texas artifacts and then move on for dinner elsewhere!!

P.S. Shared the experience with a girlfriend who said she and her husband made the same mistake but when they went it smelled of open sewer inside. When they delicately questioned the waitress her response was, "Oh yeah, that happens from time to time."