The Charleston — Restaurant in Friendswood

Cute lunch spot with friends. It’s best if you need to have a quiet conversation to get there right when they open. This place does fill up quickly & the crescendo of laughter from women can get loud. There’s also a delightful shop or two in the strip center to browse & shop for goodies. Took a friend out to celebrate her birthday there. I would also add it would be great if they updated their site on Facebook to show off their dishes, menu etc. There is plenty of parking also. Here is a picture of the dishes we ordered. Birthday lady got a sampler of sandwiches. She liked all but the pimento so she would sub that out for something else. She also enjoyed their tomato basil soup. I had a sampler with just the scoops of two salads the chicken & egg salad with a regular side salad. If you can’t handle mayo based salads they do have plain green salads with fruit. Overall a...

Food was awful. Every dish. The egg salad was sliced and drenched and mixed with an off-brand salad dressing and put on a low budget croissant. Their corn chowder was bland with no flavor. The pumpkin bread was dry. The shrimp salad was boiled shrimp drenched in an off brand salad dressing with no seasoning. The chicken salad tasted like canned deviled spread. Pimento cheese didn’t taste homemade. Everything seemed to be low budget store bought slapped together. No attention to detail. Olive green plastic table covers. No China ... cheap white restaurant plain plates. Their signature Charleston Delight desert served on almost every plate in plastic jello cups, was nothing to write home about. If you delight in an awesome tea room experience, then skip this place! Wish I could give...

I called ahead to see of there was dine in available, never got an answer. I arrived about 1 pm to see and the place was packed. I was seated after 10 min of waiting, my order was taken only to tell me later they were out of potato soup and they substituted with what tasted like canned chicken noodle...😒 and my plate was not served to greet the eyes like it has been served in the past. Wait staff was nice and attentive but experience was not as nice. Perhaps because they were swamped it showed in the service. May try again but...