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Review: Cylone Anaya Take A Hike-Ah

Posted on June 24th, 2008 10:03am by Nancy Nichols
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Can you say sour cream? Almost every bite of food–except the beans–had sour cream in it. Including the guacamole. Sorry Todd, I love you almost as much as West Hollywood on Halloween, but maybe I’m not gay enough to get Cyclone Anaya. (For the record: I am a card-carrying fag hag and not anti-gay by any means.) The beef taco was tasteless ground beef in a prefab shell, the soft chicken taco was slathered with sour cream, and the tiny shrimp wrapped in bacon was burned. Our lunch, with tip and a 10-minute wait for an absent valet parking dude, was $52. No ‘ritas. Sorry Houston, your Tex-Mex doesn’t fit my Dallas taste profile or my Tex-Mex culinary point of view. And the interior? It’s handsome, but there is nothing Texy or Mexy about it–you could change the menu overnight and not change a chair and it would fit. Which will probably happen.

6 Comments to “Review: Cylone Anaya Take A Hike-Ah”

Craig @ June 24th, 2008 at 10:39 am

THANK you! I’ve been there three times, because each time it was just enticing enough for me to return and hope they’d managed to get their **** together, but to no avail. Painfully slow service + serving up a sauce with chunks of beef in it to my vegetarian fiance after she specifically asked if it was meatless + overpriced menu + a complete indifference by management to any of the above = no thanks, not again. Not in a town with Mia’s, Rafa’s, MiCo, etc.

And what’s with the bottle of Silver Oak on each table? Am I supposed to be impressed? Or just drink that bottle because it’s already on the table? I don’t get it, but neither, apparently, do the folks at Cyclone Anaya’s. I don’t think they’ll last long.
Darren @ June 24th, 2008 at 10:47 am

Have not been impressed with the place. Went there for brunch on Sunday. Will not go back again.
Nancy Nichols @ June 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am

Craig, well they can leave those bottles of Silver Oak on the table when the new steak place opens. It makes no sense, you’re right.
Ben @ June 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

I personally loved the place. The salsa was great!
J Paul @ June 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

I was non-plussed with the whole place. The margaritas are very good unless you know how much they cost….not worth it! So many other places in town are much better than this place and most of them are priced better as well. Destined to be anothe ghost of the Crazy Crab hex.
Brandy @ June 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am

We went yesterday for lunch. Don’t get me started on the Silver Oak bottles. OK, one thing… if I’m going to be buying a hundred dollar bottle of wine, I want it the back of the cellar AT THE RIGHT FREAKING TEMPERATURE, not hanging out with everyone eating chips and salsa.

The lunch menu is the least impressive of any mexican diner in town. I mean, you can choose one or two choices for the ‘entree’. One of the choices is actually, ‘cup of queso’. Would anyone get that as a choice?

“I’d like to order the combo; a tamale and a side of freaking queso?” The rest of the menu is overpriced (for the quality) for lunch.

Why do people do this?

Oh, for the record we ended up going there b/c we had plans to do the sushi buffet (i know, i know…but it is quick, decent, and cheap) at Sushi Sapporo. But, they sat us without telling us they changed the whole concept. Now lunch is 19.95 (instead of 12 or 14.95) and you order all you want off the selected menu. Just wasn’t in the mood at that point, so we went next door. Should have stayed.

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