Spectators Bar & Grill - Riverstone — Restaurant in Texas

I took my children with me to eat dinner on a Friday night. Place was slow and staff was standing around joking with one another. Ordered the steak and some chicken wings. The wings were good. Then they bring out the steak and I politely ask for some sauce and am told “sorry we ran out yesterday”. YESTERDAY! There is literally a Kroger grocery store LITERALLY across the street. What kind of restaurant management has a $40 steak on the menu and a Kroger grocery store across the street but doesn’t bother to make sure they carry steak sauce? Who sells hot dogs without ketchup? Who sells a $40 steak without steak sauce? Talk about lazy cheap management. Don’t order the steak unless you don’t want sauce with it. Inexcusable when you have a fully stocked grocery store LITERALLY across the street. I planned to sit there and eat my steak with sauce and order drinks, but instead ended up taking my food home so I could enjoy it with sauce properly. Little things like this matter when you charge $40! Dollars for a steak! The same steak is $20 at Texas Roadhouse and they have steak sauce at every single table. This “restaurant” appears to have plenty of staff, but whoever is in charge of inventory was lazy and incompetent and they didn’t warn customers before ordering with a basic courtesy that “we don’t have any steak sauce”. Had they done so, I wouldn’t have spent $40! on a mediocre Steak! This is not a Perry’s Steakhouse steak or even a Ruth Chris steak but just an ordinary $20 Texas Roadhouse steak for double the price yet they did not bother to buy a bottle of sauce across the street! Management asked how things were and I told them about the situation and they did not care and acted like I was unreasonable for asking for steak sauce, when clearly they were grossly negligent. If they are grossly negligent about inventory of basic necessities like steak sauce what else are they neglecting? That’s my deep concern. Where else are they cutting corners to save a few dollars? The wait staff is always different and service has been extremely inconsistent. Previously they completely forgot to bring out the appetizer ahead of the meal, other times they forgot to bring out a meal for one of my kids, etc, etc. So after multiple instances of deficient service I finally decided to point out the problem of something very basic. You don’t walk on the field to play without pants. You shouldn’t sell hot dogs if you don’t have buns and well you should make sure you have steak sauce if you have steak on the menu! Especially when you have a grocery store LITERALLY across the street. There are so few options in the Riverstone and Sienna area and this is incredibly disappointing that this place that looks appealing is staffed by such lazy workers and incompetent management. When you charge prices double the market you’d expect they would not cut corners on service! $18 for a burger and $40 for a steak but they don’t bother to buy a $4 dollar bottle of sauce? That is manifestly...

I really wanted to like this place. They have a great patio in an excellent location. The menu has many great options. However, it was just ok. I brought my family and we ordered up. The breading on the food tonight was messed up; like the can of pretzel salt fell into the breading bin and rather than scooping it out they just mixed it in. The breading was excessively salty as if it’s a trick to hide something. I don’t know. If this was normal then this place gets a one star. I’m hoping that it was a mistake and they were just having an off night. Service was slow and always after that moment when you start to wonder where the waiter is. We did get refills but not a whole lot of happy table talk or a “thanks for coming have a great night”, just dropped the bill and walked to the next table. It’s ok just not used to, no attempt. Several vaping patrons which the staff made no effort to minimize. It was awkward and “part of the atmosphere”. The patio was not very clean. All that aside, if the breading wasn’t messed up, the hot chicken sandwich would have been amazing. I pealed the breading off and enjoyed what was left once I figured out the breading was the source of the psycho salt. The sandwich had great coleslaw and some good pickles with a tasty sauce on the side. I split a wedge salad that was very good. Excellent blue cheese and bacon crumble. It tasted fresh and was quite enjoyable. The kids had some great looking chicken fingers and fries. They were satisfied up to the end of the first chicken finger. Both kids mentioned that their chicken was really salty. This is when I realized the source of the saltiness was the breading. The sweet potato fries were great. Potential with this place but they missed tonight. ...

REVISED REVIEW! We enjoyed ourselves the first time we went so my husband decided to try again. He took my elderly father in law for lunch. I asked him to bring me a BLT. Buyer beware! In the menu description nowhere does it state that the tomato is battered and fried. Problem 1: incorrect description. Problem 2: never fry a ripe tomato, it becomes a mealy, gross mushy mess. Any cook/chef worth their weight knows you only fry thick slices of green tomato. Problem 3: it's fried in batter. Fried tomatoes should be coated in cornmeal. Otherwise you get a greasy flour clump stuck to the top of your mouth. Problem 4: if tomato isnt well drained, lettuce becomes a sponge for grease. Problem 5: 2 slices of bacon does not make a BLT. Sorry spectators, I think you lost guests who would have been regulars.

Food was very good. My husband has wings. They were big and had a lot of meat on them. I had the cheeseburger. Big and delicious. My father in law had the fried shrimp. Crispy batter, big and tender on the inside. Fries were nice and crispy. We had the mimosa flight. It was average but not great. The only disappointment we had was we had to ask multiple times for things like mustard, tartar sauce, etc. So our waitress could have been more attentive. But we thought maybe she is new. We will definitely be back. We like having a fun spot to grab a bite to eat in our...