Warning Warning

King’s Restaurant – Riviera Texas

We had heard rave reviews of King’s Restaurant and decided to go there for supper Saturday night. When we arrived we were greeted, cordially by the hostess and informed that it would be 45 minutes before a table would become available. That was fine with us; in fact we were anticipating a wait. Exactly 45 minutes we were called in. We had to wait 15 minutes for a waiter and he was surly and couldn’t talk but he mumbled well. He mumbled so well we couldn’t understand him. We placed our order. Exactly 45 minutes later our food arrived.

The reason why we didn’t go home and make a sandwich was the impromptu show was so entertaining. King’s Inn caters to large groups, so we were not being singled out. We sat and watched with envy as the larger groups were given their drinks and refills. We watched in amazement as groups of people would come in after us and was served promptly and with happy smiling waiters. Groups of four or less were ignored. Their orders were taken but the orders were obviously ignored until the larger groups could be taken care of first. I watch as one table walked out. I chuckled when our neighbors made a point of taking a plateful of shrimp off of a recently vacated table and the hostess went ballistic. She reprimanded them for violating health codes and such.

We were so hungry by the time we got our food, served by our surly mumbling waiter, that I couldn’t tell you if the food was good or not. We left a scathing review and (sorry Scott) no tip.

When we were told to visit again I said “No thank you.”