La Estancia Italian - Katy

So quaint and out of the way. This has become our new favorite restaurant. You can bring your own bottle of wine with no corking fee and the food is excellent!

Family owned local and food is amazing they can help you with private events as well. The place is BYOB which is fun and I just love this place. Open evenings unless you set up a business luncheon ahead of timeFood: 5/5

Where do I begin... Wait staff? Inattentive, deceiving, and difficult to communicate with. And God forbid you ever walk in with a family of 5 or more you 're getting the specials only menu with no prices listed and by the way, the salad they forcefully ask you to pick for each meal is NOT INCLUDED in the meal. Be prepared to spend $50+ per head. The food was below mediocre; it was flavorless, dry, and the snapper tasted... dirty? Heck, the lobster ravioli would have been better coming from the frozen section at Costco. What lobster were they even talking about? It was a mushy flavorless paste! The only thing I could think by the end was I wish I could call up my credit card company and reverse this charge because we got scammed big time. That was the first and last time I will ever eat at La Estancia.

This was the most pathetic restaurant I may have ever been to. We were so excited to eat at a local mom pop restaurant, but boy do I regret it. For starters, we had a group of 8 people and they refused to give us the normal menu. They have a special menu for groups 5+... it consists of food that they don 't have to cook from scratch (I 'm guessing frozen) and the explanation of said menu was poor. The prices are not listed anywhere. They make it sound like your salad is included in the meal, but it 's an extra $9, and it 's the worst caesar salad I 've ever had. The table they set up for us was WAY too small, so thank god we all know each other well. Then, the woman taking our order straight up told us we needed to order right then or else it was going to take an hour to get our food (we did and it still took 40mins). She tried so hard to push the lobster ravioli, which 3 people in our group ordered... it had zero flavor and the lobster was missing? It was pink mush. I had the snapper and there was literally no sauce on my pasta...like the noodles were boiled and put straight on my plate, the fish had a dirty taste, and I think there were maybe 5 tiny capers? Overall so bland. Oh by the way, there are no sides included. Others in our group tried different options but nothing was good. Portion size is also laughable. At the end, we expressed our disappointment to the manager and her solution was to ignore us. She also stood over our shoulder watching what we put for tip... so rude. Anyway, they ruined what was supposed to be a great evening with friends. I paid for myself and 2 others, and with a 14% tip our bill was $160. How?! Thats 3 entrees and 3 salads... without alcohol... beyond insulting. The people giving them high ratings must have never eaten food before. You 've been warned, save your money!

Please stay away from this place. The lady which I believe is the owner did not let us order from the menu. Only from the chalkboard. She kept pushing to order the ravioli and got frustated when we didn’t. Asked why kind if salad we wanted withouth saying the salad did not come up with the entre. Noodels tastes reheated and the rest of the food was tasteless. When the receipt came up the lady kept on watching how much tip I was writing. Did not finish food since it was tasteless. Rather buy food from walmart and microwave as it will taste better. 100% will no be back.