Daniel Kinard

Review of Anna's Mexican Restaurant

My wife and I were passing through Lubbock on our ...

My wife and I were passing through Lubbock on our way home from vacation and stopped for the night. We had been out of state and were missing our good Texas Mexican food. We were sorely disappointed by going here. The menu was pretty limited, no enchilada dinners or different fajita plates here, instead they had a few chicken dishes, your standard fajita plate and some combo plates (which were all pretty similar). We went for the fajitas thinking fajitas are always good, the flavor was alright but they loaded it with more bell peppers than meat. The beef was also more like chipped beef than skirt steak or anything else that you would usually see for fajitas
Their other problem was the service. We got drinks and chips/ salsa in a decent amount of time, but about ten minutes later the waitress brought out our pico and shredded cheese that came with the meal, and that was it. We figured our food was on its way but ten minutes later a different server came out and asked us what we were missing. All we could do was laugh, gesture at the table, and say our whole meal. Shortly after our waitress came by and said there was a mixup and that our food would be out shortly. She took my tea glass and apparently decided to hold it hostage because it wasn't seen again for another ten minutes untill our food finally came out. The waitress apologized for the wait and graciously decided to bend the strict two tortilla policy and told us there were two extra tortillas in the container.... Alas there were not and we couldn't help but laugh some more.
Some other things I noticed were that the refried beans seemed to be some of the cheap canned variety with water added to it. And the tortillas seemed to come out of a bag. Overall it seemed as if this whole restaurant was sombody's romantisized idea of Mexico and Mexican food. I realize that Mexican food in Mexico is not what it is in Texas but the food is better than that and the look of the place was also like nothing I'd ever seen.
This is only the second restaurant review I have ever written and hopefully its the last, because a place has to really screw up for me to take the trouble to write about it. I would like to thank them for the entertainment value of it though because all we could do was laugh after a full day in the car.