MAX's Wine Dive — Restaurant in Houston

So my wife, and I decided to try this place out after passing by it a million times. I would like to start off with most of the food was delicious. We had their fried deviled eggs which were amazing! They came on top of an awesome aioli sauce. We also tried the cheese plate (which didn't have a price next it on the menu) foolish me just assumed it would be average cost as the "other appetizers listed" it came with a pretzel bread (which was good), a few candied pecans (fantastic) a smear of dijon mustard (well.. tasted like regular dijon mustard) some grapes, but the real villain of this plate was some blue cheese supposedly from france. It was so bad, I immediately lost my appetite. It tasted like it was cultured from rat milk, and left under a dusty refrigerator to ferment. We politely informed the waitress of our distaste, and she replied that she would ask if they can replace it with the other mystery cheese (which was rather good actually) 10 minutes pass and she came to ask if we were still picking at it and I'm having tons of thoughts running through my mind like: 1. Does it look like im picking at this pile of disgusting cheese (that we already told you I didn't enjoy) 2. Do you not see that it turned me into Yoda from star wars? 3. Does that mean the cheese cant be replaced with cheese that actually is edible? How much am I gonna have to pay for this appalling cheese?

Fast forward through my rant:

Chicken dinner was very good, deviled eggs were good, and my opinion should be clear on the cheese plate (which was not worth $20)

Friendly staff but a bit deceitful about the replacement.

All said and done my bill was around $80 for the food I described, and 2 glasses of wine. I might go back one day but I certainly need time to cool off about...

The service we received on Sunday morning was the worst service I have ever experienced in a restaurant. We made reservations for 11am and we're immediately seated at our table. I tried to scan the QR code to see the menu but the brunch menu had a glitch and would only show a small part of the menu. We wanted to order a bottle of bubbles for mimosas but couldn't see what the selections were. Same with the food. There was nothing to see. When our waitress came back to our table, I asked may we see a paper menu. She said no. They don't have menus. Just the QR code for your phone. Then she walked away. Ummm, ok. How are we supposed to order when we have no way of seeing the menu? She returned a while later and we explained that the QR code wasn't working. She looked at our phone and said that there was a glitch. Then she said, "I don't know. I guess try Googling the menu." And then she walked away again! We sat there in confusion and I watched her thinking she may try to remedy the situation. I saw her speaking to the host at the front but she never returned to the table. We eventually got up and left the restaurant. We clearly weren't going to be helped.

As we were leaving, I tried explaining to the host that we couldn't order so we are leaving and he was extremely condescending. I don't understand it. I used to love MAX's Wine Dive. This used to be our go to place for Sunday brunch.

I hope management sees this review and reconsiders having some paper menus on hand. Not everyone will be able to use the QR code menus.

I totally recommend Laurenzo's down the road for brunch. If I and going to spend a couple hundred dollars for brunch, I will go to a place that will...

As a regular here, I’m extremely disappointed in this place. I came here today 9/17/2023, for brunch with my mom. We both ordered the chicken & waffles; and substituted the waffles for French toast. When our food first came out, our chicken was extremely small. I mentioned it to the waiter and she was so sweet she immediately said she’ll bring our more. In the midst of waiting for the fresh chicken we decided to taste the chicken on our plate. The chicken was completely pink on the inside!!! As the other chicken came out, I informed the waiter just to let the chef know the chicken was not only small but under cooked aswell. At this point my nerves was bad I’m checking every piece I try. I break apart the new chicken it’s STILL completely pink on the inside. I went to break open all of the fresh pieces of chicken and they all were pink!!! SHM!! By this time I asked to speak with a manager. Cody comes over and give a very dry apology, and asked do I want more chicken. UM NO. He then offers to take the plate from in front of me and ask do a I want something else. I said not. He then said he’d be back by to check on us but never came back. I’m more vocal than my mom but we had the same issue. Our tab comes out and everything was on there. You’d think after serving a customer pink chicken you’d comp there meals… Salmonella is real and could be very deadly if consumed. To make matters worst the owner Rocko was there and didn’t even swing by the table to check on customers who was served raw chicken. I’m annoyed I didn’t get pictures to show how pink this...