Mannie's Seafood — Restaurant in Jersey Village

They gave me 2 powdered non-dairy creamer packets, instead of half and half with my coffee, and gave me a plastic spoon to stir with instead of a metal spoon like everywhere else in Houston. Tasted like maxwell house 4/10. I had the shrimp gumbo, the roux base was severely lacking in heartiness. Lots of vegetables in it, I rate the gumbo 5/10. I also had the 3 piece grilled tilapia w/ fried rice and French fries. French fries 3/10 are clearly Sysco brand (awful) and the fried rice had absolutely no salt/seasoning and it tasted like the inside of a plastic bag. Dad said it tasted like the inside of a metal can. 1/10

3 pieces of tilapia were of decent size but were definitely not "of the day", seasoning wasn't there. Had to throw half a lime plus salt&pepper and tobasco in order for me to actually finish them. 4/10

The roll that came with it was clearly store bought and had some variety of dough conditioner in it. (If you don't know what dough conditioner is, Google it). 6/10

The meal came with an un-needed knife and a fork, but came without a much-needed spoon.

Along side the fish there two small paper soufflé cups filled with sauces. One was a milky/sweetened tartar sauce (disgusting 1/10) and some kind of ketchup/barbecue/tequila sauce. It tasted like ketchup and tequila, but looked like barbecue 8/10.

All of the tables have a cardboard 6-pack modelo beer holder, which I think looked really really ridiculous. It had some off-brand soy sauce inside it. I say off-brand because the label had been taken off of the bottle and the cap was missing. Kikkoman requires their soy sauce to be served out of a kikkoman bottle. The tobasco bottle had clearly never been cleaned since the cap/spout of the bottle was filthy and caked with dried pepper paste. They're supposed to be cleaned nightly.

The salt and pepper containers were corona bottles fitted with a replacement lid like at willies ice house (across the street).

The menu was made with clip art and word art with comic sans. I need eye bleach after looking at it. Menu needs to look more grown up, and less like some kids highschool class project that they got a B on. Fake plants, bud light banners, and huge neon signs clutter the lobby of the building.

Oh, and they also charged $2.30 for a BOTTLED Sprite with a cup of ice. Not even Mexican Sprite. It was American Sprite, and it wasn't cold. That was absolutely horrific.

Our waitress was friendly but really didn't know what she was doing. She remembered our orders without any problem, but was acting more like a friend at a bar than a waitress.

The restaurant is laid out like Burger King, and had about 5 people in it when we arrived. The table numbers were taped onto each table with scotch tape instead of the waitresses actually trying to remember the...

Ordered gumbo with the fish/shrimp lunch menu - great food, great price. Lunch includes free iced tea. Total for 2 was $17, with shrimp, fish, gumbo, salad, fried rice and iced tea! It doesn't get any better than that for decent seafood at affordable prices.

The fish and shrimp were very tasty.

Wish they had Cajun Chef or Louisiana hot sauce instead of the Mexican chili sauce, but other than that, hard to beat good seafood at this price.

We will...

We love the pork fried rice, fry flounder and fry catfish. All the portions a great size. I always either split something with my little one or my husband and I will share flounder. Prices are great. Food always comes out fresh. Especially the salad always look so fresh. The owner is awesome, so sweet. We go at least two times a month. I preferred this place over any other Seafood places. I actually love Nannie's fried rice much better...