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| - My husband and I discovered Z-Tejas nearly 20 years ago and it WAS amazing! After not having been for a while because we moved across town, we decided to travel the 30 minutes for Mother's Day dinner.
Wow. It is NOT the same place. I don't even know where to start. The service was poor. Very poor. Drink glasses were empty nearly the entire meal. The table wasn't cleared as we finished eating, so it was crowded with dirty and empty dishes and glasses.
And the food. I will confess the dumplings (yeah, they're back) were good. The queso was great. But that was it. They used to provide unlimited cornbread, but now they charge after the first pan. I get that, but even for a table of 5, we were only given one pan of corn bread...cut into four slices. How does that work?
My entree (the stuffed pork tenderloin that I've had numerous times) was OK...but luke warm, and not the amazing entree I'd had in the past. It was a little scorched on the bottom like it had been pre-cooked and then reheated.
The biggest disappointment? The fruit cobbler. It used to be amazing. Like crazy, delicious amazing. This time it literally tasted like a frozen pie that was heated a little and put in a cast iron skillet to serve. It wasn't even hot enough to melt the ice cream. And the amazing sauce that used to come with the? Non-existent. The server told me they had changed the recipe a few times...this wasn't a recipe, it was literally pie smashed into a skillet.
I must be the only person who didn't know how bad the restaurant had become. It was almost empty. Of course the irony is that people were being turned away, being told there weren't tables (maybe the were short staffed?). Well, they can have my table...not sure I will ever be back...which is so sad for me because it used to be my favorite place.
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