Eggspectation - San Antonio — Restaurant in San Antonio

Where to begin? Lobster eggs benedict promised to be brought to the table with poached eggs. I got soft boiled eggs. It was so dry, so very dry. Sahara desert dry. Had to order a side of Hollandaise. Husband had the breakfast poutine which promised to come with chorizo...it didn't just fall short it fell off the cliff and we think it's still dropping. The waiter had to bring us a bowl of chorizo for him to put in it. Then there was an issue with the chorizo. It seemed that they tried to go gourmet and make their own. Sadly it didn't work. The lack of spices made it taste like a hamburger with no seasoning and tasted like the meat had been dipped in water. My eggs benedict we're supposed to come with potatoes lyonnaise. I don't know what lyonnaise means to the cooks at eggspectations but apparently to them it means no seasoning. I shouldn't be dishonest here, I had one single potato slice that was overly doused in Lawry's seasoning. We had a side of cheesy grits, a side of lobster meat, and a side of bacon. To their credit the lobster was all claw meat. Unfortunately with no lemon. We made do, as we had ordered, by force, a side of Hollandaise. the cheesy grits also tasted like water had absolutely no salt and no pepper and a scant amount of cheese. The bacon arrived cold but extremely smoky. so smoky in fact that I can still smell it on my hands an hour after we left the restaurant. my husband and I are extremely used to eating food as the chef wants us to taste it and it is rare for us to ask for salt and pepper. We asked for one of each and the grinders arrived with the pepper grinder broken. after waiting a million years for our waiter we finally got a pepper grinder that was not broken. 500 grinds of salt and 600 grinds of pepper later we finally got the grits to taste like something other than water. we added the Smoky bacon and The lobster claw to the cheesy grits with a couple of dashes of Tabasco sauce. After carefully crafting our own lobster bacon cheesy grit dish which we could have made ourselves at home we finally got the flavor we were looking for. The cocktails didn't get any better. The Paloma tasted like the inside of someones shoe. we were tickled at the thought of a strawberry mimosa. we thought it was so adorable that they seem to have champagne on tap. Then we got them in our mouths. We have no idea what the flavor was but it wasn't strawberry and it wasn't mimosa. Toward the middle of our meal I dropped my fork on the floor. No one noticed this shiny silver pointy object on the floor. I proceeded to eat with a knife and a spoon. This place does not make quarantine better. They should cut their losses and just close. if eggspectations would like I can come and show them how to properly cook a lobster that does not go to the table tasting like a bland piece of silly putty. And I can definitely show them how to make a proper paloma. They need a mimosa tutorial... all of them. The owner needs to go in there and taste the damn food and taste the damn drinks and be honest with himself while he's tasting. Our waiter was a dreamboat. He was hot he was muscular he was very very sweet. his eyes above that mask where the thing that dreams are made of. Unfortunately he makes a very piss poor waiter. Really nice though. when we go to do these reviews we tend to order several entrees, several different kinds of drinks etc and we also had water and ice tea on the table and our glasses remained empty a majority of the time. It made us quite sad to spend over $60 on a meal and have it taste like absolutely nothing. Next time I'll cook for myself after church. We did leave the hottie waiter 20%. how could we not with those eyes and...

Me and three other people met there for brunch this past Sunday, 10.19.25. The wait wasn't long despite the amount of cars in the parking lot and out front. We were seated in Alex's section in the back close to the bar. From the get go, he was taking exceeding long to get our drinks and then didn't provide straws and immediately disappeared. We thought nothing of it and got up to get our own straws from the bar. All the people at the table had been in the service industry and understand that you can get in the weeds and left it at that. The manager noticed that we had gotten our own straws and apologized for it and we told him no problem. It seemed that Alex had no problem in providing poor service the remaining of the time. We had to ask for butter several times, ( and several other condiments numerous times) and instead of getting it out to us he was dropping off other plates and drinks. If a waiter is in the weeds, he should ask for help, but no, he kept bringing our requests himself, all be it LATE. I asked for a cup of coffee with Frangelico, and Alex brought me a cup of coffee and cream. We were clearing our bills and I asked, "Is there Frangelico in the coffee?" Alex replied "No" and kept clearing our bills. By this time I had had enough and spoke with the manager and when Alex saw me speaking to him he came back to the table and asked if I wanted some Frangelico to add to my coffee. It was obvious that Alex wasn't interested providing service, much less quality service, he was just trying not to get into trouble. The manager listened attentively and explained that he had been trying to lead by example but that one couldn't beat someone over the head to make them listen. I explained to the manager that we didn't want the tip we left Alex to reflect him thinking we didn't know how to tip. All of the people at the table customarily tip 25-40%. He was gracious enough to give us a gift card for us to come back and give them another try. The food came out room temperature, but it had taken Alex so long to get it to us that no one wanted to send it back.

If you do go to Eggspectation, I HIGHLY urge you to stay out of Alex's section....

I want to start by saying that although my main complaint was about the service, I don’t think it was the waiters’ and bartenders’ fault for the bad service, rather the management as I’m about to explain.

I came with my date for a Wednesday night special they are calling ‘Wine down Wednesday’ and it’s a great special for two personal pizzas and a bottle of wine for 30 bucks. Great deal right?

Well upon arrival I could tell the staff was heavily understaffed, the restaurant wasn’t even close to capacity but rather 1/4 of the seating space was full. So you know a slow night in comparison to their busy Brunch hours.

A waiter walked us to our table and we sat and waited for 10 - 15 minutes and as we were about to leave for not even being able to get a drink to wait on, another waiter arrives as Im sure he noticed no one had serviced us yet, he took our order and brought us our 5th choice of wine since the first 4 they were already out of, he brings it back and so we wait for about 25 - 35 minutes for our food.

Had it been a busy night for the restaurant I would completely understand for the long wait for two pizzas but again the restaurant was only at best a quarter of the maximum capacity. So I can only imagine how understaffed the kitchen was as well. As our food finally arrived, we got our pizzas perfectly hot which explained they were just backed up by what I can only assume the rest of the people were also there for the great special they had.

All in all I enjoyed my food but the wait has me and my date getting in the mood of what we call “hangry” haha. Honestly I felt bad for the waiters I could see them running back and forth trying their best but only saw 2-3 people running around and servicing the tables in the restaurant.

This just tells me the management was not really prepared to have more waiters and cooks for the dinner service, which is a shame as we enjoyed the food but not sure I’d like to wait that long again to eat a pizza and have some wine, again great deal but it’s...