How to Dine Out – The Healthy Way
Chuy's Tex Mex Review
As a Mom with severe food intolerance and the desire to eat healthy, I don't eat out much. I don't trust restaurants. BUT, what if I started to review
some restaurants and brought about more awareness and options for food
intolerance?
Don't get me
wrong, I believe that if you have food issues, it is ultimately YOUR
responsibility to take special care in where and what you eat. It's never
the restaurants problem. But, it sure would be nice for people like me
and millions of others out there to be able to eat at more places with
confidence.
This will be my first of many food reviews. I'm going to be very honest and will be reviewing the atmosphere
that accompanies the food. While I'm not one to complain, if I'm going to do this, I gotta do it right for you.
Maybe this is my outlet to bitch about restaurant experiences, maybe it's just me being honest or maybe it's both. :)
First official
review is Chuy's Tex-Mex in College Station, Texas. The negative far
outweighs the positive but I will say, it was the day before Texas A&M
University Classes started which made it very busy.
On the other
hand, they should have expected that and staffed more servers and perhaps not
have a someone new in the kitchen. (The server told me this fact)
I have had other decent experiences there before but nothing I'd rave about. This was maybe the 'straw on the camels back'? Is that what the saying is?
First, my salad was just okay but they did cater to food intolerance. I ordered the Cobb Salad. Nothing fancy but still good and it allowed
me to join in with my family as they ate their Tex Mex favorites.
In the salad, they cooked (fully and then some) an non marinated
chicken breast on a clean surface and omitted any diary or egg. I was just
happy I could confidently stuff my face!
The cobb salad was delivered with missing ingredients but when I
could finally flag down my server she handled it promptly.
The 'Pinky-Up Restaurant Snob' side of me.... Here goes...
Onto the salsa! The first bowl of salsa was great but be careful,
there is a TON of sodium in it. But, the
second bowl was WAY off. I don’t know if it
was old or just the wrong recipe. It looked normal but I had a gag reaction to the
taste. I had to spit as much as I could out and pray that I didn't end up nobody wants from a restaurant.
Normally I would flag down the server but I didn't. This was at the end of the meal at by this time, I didn't have another minute to wait on them. We were strapped for time.
The entire lunch experience was 1 hour and 30 minutes long. I know I’m going to sound like a raging bitch
but they were slow as hell and our server was nonstop helping patrons. She worked very hard but she was doing all she could.
They were obviously packed and not staffed for it. The server also told me that some of their kitchen staff was new. Now when what is supposed to be a quick lunch takes more than 45 minutes, I get pissed and want to send them a invoice for my time lost. Too bitchy?
The music was so loud that the people behind us in both directions
were yelling just to hear each other which means we got to hear two stories
being shouted at the same time. If we
wanted to speak at all, we had to yell.
It was awful.
What was meant to be a fun family lunch ended up being stressful
and annoying. While my boys enjoyed their bowl of salty, calorific Tex Mex,
I wish we would have went someplace else.
If you go there, they don’t have much on the menu for gluten or
dairy free peeps like myself but they do have something so you will at least
have one healthy option!
The original intention of this was to give you ideas on how to eat healthy whilst dining out but that just turned into a full on restaurant rage review. But, I do feel better now for some reason.
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