Restaurant Review

Texas Land and Cattle opened in Mishawaka quite some time ago. Not being a big consumer of beef, I was curious about the selections it had to offer but not in any hurry to become a patron.

A week or so ago I received a coupon for the new lunch specials they were offering. We had a group lunch event coming up at my office so I thought it might be a good opportunity to check the restaurant out. Normally, when the 5 of us leave for our monthly lunch meeting we're still trying to decide where were going as we're driving down the road so having a destination ahead of time was kind of nice.

The building Texas Land and Cattle occupies was formerly a Lonestar restaurant. When we arrived at 1pm the parking lot was virtually empty. I was concerned that they were even open, but they were.

We were promptly seated as we wer only one of two tables in the entire place that were occupied. I panned the restaurant and decided that had not the name on the sign and some of the exterior facade changed, I would have thought I was still at Lonestar as the inside was pretty much the same. I don't know if I was expecting a big change but something noteable may have been nice.

The corner table we were seated at was pushed back into the corner a little too far and so we needed to pull it out somewhat. When I reached under the table it was considerably sticky, sticky enought that I immediately went to the restroom to wash my hands.

The restroom appeared to be clean which wasn't usually the case when I visited here when it was Lonestar. I made my way back to the table and the waitress had arrived and was distributing menus and taking drink orders.

All of uu ordered off the lunch special menu to take advantage of the coupon. Our drinks arrived and we engaged in conversation and waited......and waited...and waited....and waited and waited.

It wasn't long before we all started looking at each other and commented on what could possibly be taking so long. And we waited....and waited.....and waited.
I would say it was a good 30 plus minutes before our food finally arrived. Fortunately it did come out all at once.

The quality of the food was "ok". It wasn't bad, it wasn't spectacular. It was just ok. I think the waitress checked on us one time during the marathon waiting period on drink refills, when I could have used one the most. If I'm not mistaken, she checked on refills 2 or 3 times after we got our food. Interesting approach.

The restaurant seemed clean. The food was avereage. The service, well the waitress was nice, but I think the service was not so good. I'm not sure why we had to wait so long and no reason was ever given. Will I go back? Not in any big hurry that's for sure. Especially not for lunch....I don't have that much time!