1886 Humble Backyard — Restaurant in Houston

As a real estate agent, I often visit various restaurants and bars to find great spots with good food and ambiance to recommend to my clients. However, I have never experienced worse service than what I encountered during my first visit to this place.

The young white male server assigned to the outdoor tables did not greet us, did not take our order, never approached our table, and didn’t even make eye contact. What made it more upsetting was that he promptly checked on and took orders from the other outdoor tables — including those who arrived after us and were seated right in front of and behind us.

If you are Asian, I honestly do not recommend coming here.

From 6:00 PM to 8:20 PM on Wednesday, June 18 (when I’m writing this review), he never came to our table. We ended up having to place our order at the bar. Two adults spent $82 + $7 for the bartender who took our order and the food was brought out by someone from the kitchen — not the server.

It honestly felt like this white male server had an issue with Asian guests. Sadly, there was no way to ask for another server, which made the experience even more disappointing.

There were also a lot of mosquitoes. If you’re sensitive to mosquito bites, this place might not be for you either.

The food was average — just like you’d expect from a typical bar. We ordered a steak at 6:00 PM, and it didn’t arrive until 8:30 PM. When it finally did, it was overly salty, again typical of bar food. I took one bite, then asked for a to-go box and left.

The utensils provided were plastic. Honestly, I feel the positive steak reviews here are quite exaggerated. If you're visiting for the first time, I hope this review gives you a more realistic idea of what to expect.

I will not be returning — and I definitely won’t be recommending this place to any of my...

We had been here before had a great time. So we came back. We opened a tab inside the bar. But then went outside. We had a server that came out and check up on us periodically. He had been keeping us refreshed with our drinks. As the night was getting closer to the end. We proceed to go inside. We played darts and the server followed us inside to continue keeping us hydrated. Well as all good things have to come to an end. I proceeded to close out our tab. I gave my wife cash to take care of the server as I felt he did awesome in taking care of us. As I'm waiting in line. The gentleman in dreads signals me to go to him. I ask to close out. He gives me my ticket. I pay out my tab and put 0 as for tip. Sign and start heading out. As we're saying our goodbye for the night to family. My wife hears my name. This guy with dreads came outside called my name out and said that I'm not allowed back to his bar as I didn't tip. On my tab. We responded to tell him that we tipped our server CASH. And it just happened to see our server and explain to that we didn't tip on our tab. As we gave him cash. And we probably won't go back to this location for this reason. Like dude who are you to do that. And for context. My tab was 96.00 rounding it up and I tip the server 20.00 cash. So mathematically I gave our server 20%.

So I'm going to think twice if I...

This place has a nice venue, but needs a new staff, I can’t say all but there’s this guy tall slender young dude with wavy hair and glasses, acts like he doesn’t want to be there. He was arguing openly with a waitress front of us. He was at the bar in the A/C side with the pool table. We ordered our first drinks they were Nutrl’s, they are premixed in a can, first off the drinks were room temp not even cold, and he left the bar went somewhere to get them and came back, if the first ones were hot and you have customers wanting them, maybe take a few more and put them in a freezer. Anyway we made our payment and went back to hang with our friends. We didn’t order food because it took an hour for friends to even get 3 chicken tender plate, so we didn’t even eat. Second time to the bar to get another round, (drinks were hot again) and the guy says he can’t take our card, we were like why, we used it the first time, he huffed didn’t apologize and took it anyway. This kind of service is ridiculous, like the attitude needs be assessed. He doesn’t need to be there, not polite at all rude to do workers, dude go home! Never again, there’s way better spots around...