Star Cafe
Sunday 1/11/09 1pm
21522 FM2100
Crosby, TX 77532
Star Cafe (and Country Club) has a reputation for serving "old fart" food. Everything is bland and soft and can be eaten with a spoon. If you are over 100-years-old, then this is THE place for you to eat. Or if you are periodontically challenged. No teeth required. Everything is under seasoned, runny, gooey & the over-riding color of most entrees is BEIGE. The decor is old school, with vinyl booths and black & white pictures of 50's movies stars gracing the walls.
The restaurant was packed. Every table was taken & there were people queued up at the front door.I guess everybody loves comfort food on a Sunday afternoon. (And I MUST interject at this time that MOST of the clientele were of the toothless and/or decrepit variety). We had the special. Chopped sirloin, with mashed potatoes and broccoli soup (no substitutions). The service was a bit hectic due to the crowd. The iced tea tasted like it had been sitting in the dispenser since 1983. Nothing tastes worse than stank tea. The meat was a plain & simple hamburger patty. There were "grilled" onions which looked more SWEATED than grilled. The mashed potatoes had the consistency of potato soup.The entire plate was covered in a thick, dark, shiny, gelatinous veil of brown gravy. Perched atop it all like a special delicacy was a small right-from-the-package dinner roll that certainly came in a pack of 100 for $1.06 at the day-old bakery. The broccoli-cheese soup was actually quite tasty, my only complaint being that the cheese (product) left a greasy, globby film on the roof of my mouth.
As far as this GENRE of food goes, this meal was satisfactory. By choosing STAR CAFE, I knew ahead of time that I wasn't going to stumble upon Wolfgang Puck slumming behind the grill. Star Cafe is old skool food, for old skool people. Since I was in an old skool mood. Star Cafe hit the spot.
Star Cafe in Crosby TX gets an EYEBALL UP from JudgedByJody!
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