Clementine's Kitchen — Restaurant in Laredo

I've been meaning to try this place, but the hours are limited. I finally was looking for a place for the family to get some home cooked food (without cooking at home), and Clementines is just the place. The best part for me is the historic building. It just echoes across time, and when you step inside.....it's like a time warp. The smell of the old wood and paint almost complimented the smell of the food. A quick glance at the short but affordable menu and Chicken Cordon Blue it was. Unfortunately, what I received was chicken fried chicken, with a slice of Swiss chess and a dollop of blue cheese sauce. It was not Chicken Cordon Blue, but it tasted ok. My wife did get the chicken fried chicken, but even she said it needed some salt. There was not a lot of flavor. The green beans were too pica. Almost like they put too much black pepper. My son's spaghetti was cooked to perfection, but the sauce was watery and lacked flavor. My other son ordered a burger, which was clearly hand pressed from ground beef, and he enjoyed it. The hopeful highlight was the anticipation of the flavored lemonade. We were excited to try the dragonfruit and pineapple lemonade. Unfortunately, it was not very lemony, and the flavor was similar to a syrup based drink and not fresh squeezed fruit like agua fresco. I'm very disappointed. The service was good until the lunch crowd came in. There just weren't enough waitresses for the number of people coming in for lunch. All the city workers from downtown flooded the restraunt. Also, there was very limited parking, and we had trouble...

The food was okay, it was like homemade comfort food, nothing extravagant, but okay. The restaurant itself needs a little tidying up, I think, it looks too, too dirty inside, like unkempt. The starter dishes that we got were chipped, a lot, I’m not sure if that was the aesthetic, but it didn’t look too good. The girl who attended us was super nice though, attentive. Although, when we were seated we wanted to ask for something and the girl was sitting a few tables away from us, but she was eating as well, which is totally okay, everyone needs to chow down, but I don’t know, maybe do that in the back? I don’t know, don’t cancel me 😞 granted there wasn’t any other customers in the restaurant aside from us. Overall, it wasn’t a bad experience, and I would like to try more...

My first time eating at this establishment was good/pleasant i ordered the chicken fried chicken with bacon gravy, mashed potatoes & some green things. The chicken was very good, the green things were good too, BUT the mashed potatoes was no bueno, it had no seasoning at all, its as if it was just a boiled potato semi smashed and that's it. No pepper no salt no butter, other than that everything was good, good service from the waitress and food came out fast. Will i go again? Yes i would like to try...