Wunsche Bros. Cafe & Saloon — Restaurant in Spring

If I could rate everything 5 stars and then add more, I would. TL;DR: Incredible food, phenomenal staff, and an atmosphere that is absolutely worth missing a flight home over. Lloyd (I have Llyod written in my notes, so sorry if I had it right by hand) was great (especially after hearing that he's a new hire), and the bartender Madyson was an absolute treat to talk to.

ANYONE who visits the North side of Houston and asks their Uber driver if there's anything worth checking out should instantly have this place suggested to them. And if you live there or in Spring, you better be telling all your friends about it.

The food was what got me to put this place into my GPS. I didn't know much except that I wanted some of that BEER BREAD! I also saw the turkey club on there and was like, "Oh yeah, I gotta try this!"

But then, I arrived on site. Crossing some cool railroad stuff, I entered into an area that looked like it had almost reached the end of Prohibition, and this old beautiful saloon was right there at the end of the road.

I get inside, and the host seats me after asking if this was my first time in. I chose to sit at a table by myself instead of the bar. I kinda wish I had set at the bar, but then I wouldn't have the opportunity to praise the waiter I had for my table. Anyways, the host gave me an awesome history lesson about the place. I won't spoil much, but yes. This actually truly is an authentic saloon from 1902.

So, here I am in this saloon, a musician is setting up wine bottles on the mantle for a nice backdrop, and I'm oogling this list of bourbons. On it, there are four of them with a rectangle around them (Balcones Baby Blue, Balcones Pot Still, Balcones Rye, and Balcones Rumble), which all turned out to have a Texas history of their own, but that's not for this review.

Lloyd comes up to the table and shares some of the same history lesson (I can't fault him on that, the host just beat him to it). I sent the poor guy back and forth to the bartender with questions about splitting a single pour into four for sampling, telling him that it was fine that only two of them were available at that time (Pot Still and Rumble), and had him actually get the manager to override their computer to make that sampling possible for me. All the while, he was positive and I noticed him take care of every other one of his tables all at the same time. Guy was a champ.

Anyways, the bourbon was great, the beer bread was great, the fries and ranch were SO GOOD, and the turkey club was one of the best ones I've ever had.

I stopped by the bartender, Madyson, to thank her for putting up with my questioning, and we had a wonderful little chat about whiskeys and how these particular ones were made special. Gosh, I could have stood and talked with her for hours if I didn't have a flight soon and she didn't have customers to tend to.

I took a two minute glance upstairs, at least up until I got to the private upper bar that a party had reserved, and then called my Uber up.

As it turns out, NOBODY seems to know about that historical area, and it's a crime that a place this great didn't have a line out the door at 4pm. Seriously, locals and tourists, visit this place.

Turns out, I actually DID miss my flight by about 30 seconds. If I had called the Uber BEFORE walking upstairs, I'd be home right now. My only regret? That I didn't book my next flight for late enough in the day for me to explore that little area for a while longer (including the...

Save your money, DON'T waste it here! There is NOTHING about this restaurant that suggests any interest on the part of the management to provide a pleasant, comfortable atmosphere much less a good meal for customers! WARNING!!! DO NOT use the restroom here if you do not wish to share it with strangers of the opposite sex! Do NOT send your child alone to the restroom! We warn our kids about "stranger danger" and Wunsche Bros. is putting them in a potentially dangerous situation with a RIDICULOUS communal restroom. I have never experienced something as creepy and uncomfortable and UNNECESSARY in a restaurant! Is the management trying to make some kind of woke political statement? This is hardly the place for it! We came for a late lunch, it was not busy but our server was INATTENTIVE. There were at least eight servers (including ours) loitering around talking and yukking it up near our table. The music was so loud that we had to shout at the table...you expect this at a nightclub, but not when you meet friends for a meal and conversation in a restaurant. We even changed tables trying to find a quieter spot and still had to ask TWICE for the music to be turned down...our server seemed annoyed by this...in fact, after serving coffee, she never returned for a refill or to check our table. She brought the check, collected payment then sat down for her own meal while we were still visiting with our friends...a coffee warm up WOULD have been nice... The food was mediocre especially for the price. The hamburger I ordered was served open face with the bun lying in a pool of grease. The meat was dry and tasteless. One small packet of mustard was buried under the dry, tough fries but my fingers were too slippery from the grease soaked bun to open it...thanks a lot, our server had disappeared by then. My guest ordered the "ribeye steak" sandwich which could have been any kind of meat, it was so thoroughly chopped up...mostly bun anyway. He didn't bother to finish eating it...I am embarrassed that I brought a guest to this restaurant! There is no excuse for such bad food at premium prices. People come to Wunsche Bros to experience the history of the place however, a creepy communal restroom, overpriced bad food and indifferent service are what they will get for their trouble. We will NOT return to this place and strongly advise that you do not either...the creepy, unsafe communal restroom was the last straw to a thoroughly unpleasant...

My wife and I went today for my birthday and I had been seeing them on Tiktok and the food looked great and the servers appeared so friendly. We got there and were greeted fantastically by two ladies and were seated right away and given menu's. After deciding what we wanted we just sat there waiting for a wait staff to come over. All we could see is 6 - 8 servers just standing next to each other staring around the restaurant. Finally a waitress comes and asks for our drink order, I let her know we were ready to order as well as we had been there awhile already. She said something about it being crazy in the back even though the restaurant was not even that busy. We then didn't see her again until I had to try multiple times to get a refill since we were never asked if we wanted one. Then someone else brought our food the tables are close together which is fine except when the waiter for the table next to us wants to stand in between our table and the table he is speaking with so his butt is less than 6 inches from our food, I had to ask him to move because it was just rude and disgusting. He then stands behind his table like he should have and then goes right back and sticks his butt right over my wife's food!! The service and the ambience were absolutely horrible but, the food was good I will NEVER go back and I suggest if you go just order it to go!! I was excited about going and left with so much disappointment!! To put the cherry on top I paid in cash and she brought my cash but, not my change and I feel like whether it's a penny or a dollar it is my money to choose whether I wanted it or not, so instead of leaving a tip which I am adamant about doing good or bad because that's how I am but, as far as I am concerned she made that change her tip when she decided not bring it with the rest...