Anna's Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in Lubbock

My wife and I were passing through Lubbock on our way home from vacation and stopped for the night. We had been out of state and were missing our good Texas Mexican food. We were sorely disappointed by going here. The menu was pretty limited, no enchilada dinners or different fajita plates here, instead they had a few chicken dishes, your standard fajita plate and some combo plates (which were all pretty similar). We went for the fajitas thinking fajitas are always good, the flavor was alright but they loaded it with more bell peppers than meat. The beef was also more like chipped beef than skirt steak or anything else that you would usually see for fajitas Their other problem was the service. We got drinks and chips/ salsa in a decent amount of time, but about ten minutes later the waitress brought out our pico and shredded cheese that came with the meal, and that was it. We figured our food was on its way but ten minutes later a different server came out and asked us what we were missing. All we could do was laugh, gesture at the table, and say our whole meal. Shortly after our waitress came by and said there was a mixup and that our food would be out shortly. She took my tea glass and apparently decided to hold it hostage because it wasn't seen again for another ten minutes untill our food finally came out. The waitress apologized for the wait and graciously decided to bend the strict two tortilla policy and told us there were two extra tortillas in the container.... Alas there were not and we couldn't help but laugh some more. Some other things I noticed were that the refried beans seemed to be some of the cheap canned variety with water added to it. And the tortillas seemed to come out of a bag. Overall it seemed as if this whole restaurant was sombody's romantisized idea of Mexico and Mexican food. I realize that Mexican food in Mexico is not what it is in Texas but the food is better than that and the look of the place was also like nothing I'd ever seen. This is only the second restaurant review I have ever written and hopefully its the last, because a place has to really screw up for me to take the trouble to write about it. I would like to thank them for the entertainment value of it though because all we could do was laugh after a full...

Was craving some Mamaritas nachos today but traffic was pretty bad so I thought I would swing by Anna's since it is a few blocks from my house. Had eaten here one time before in November and it was meh. Ordered their Nachos El Grande appetizer and a tea to go. Said 8.99 on the menu which I thought was a little steep for nachos but whatever. Not outrageous. I paid before I got the food. Charged me 13 bucks. Guess she rang it up as fajita nachos or their small drinks cost like 3 bucks. Again, not a huge deal. Hope they are good, though! They got the order out fairly quickly (under 10 minutes). It was brought out to me by the front desk and I asked if they put salsa in the sack. The girl smiled and said salsa wasn't included. I don't know if the people at Anna's realize this, but Chuy's does free nachos on weekdays right down the road. I feel like the B-team that was working today at 2:30pm probably made a slight mistake in charging me, but c'mon, practically every other Mexican food restaurant in Lubbock gives salsa away. When I got home and ate the nachos, they were mediocre. I'm just glad I didn't opt to sit down at the restaurant and eat. If I gave a decent tip, it would have cost me 16-18 bucks to eat some mediocre nachos. At least I might have gotten...

It’s a little upsetting to me that the best thing about my experience at this Mexican food restaurant were the French fries my kids got with their meals. Before I go any further I will say that the kids meals are very generous in their portions so If that’s important to you...

I’ve been going back and forth between two and three stars for this place but I settled on two because I really was not at all impressed and will not be going back. I ordered the brisket flautas and while none of our food took very long at all to come to the table, my flautas were altogether flavorless and the “cheese sauce” they come with was lumpy and some of the worst I’ve ever had.

Even their “salsa,” which while tasted okay, had the look and consistency of marinara sauce. The beans and rice and the French fries are really the only good marks I can bestow upon this place. It wasn’t very clean. They were using a table near ours to stack dirty dishes on.

The food looked and smelled really good. I was really quite excited when it came out. Then I bit into it and the whole story changed. There really are several incredibly better Mexican restaurants in Lubbock and the surrounding areas, I REALLY wouldn’t suggest spending your hard-earned dollars...