Triple A Restaurant

Unassuming old restaurant, with great breakfast. I ordered 3 breakfast tacos comes with egg additional toppings 50 cents each, but they give you ALOT of food the tacos were huge and very good. Highly recommend ordering the biscuits they are so delicious you don’t need any butter or jelly they are that good. Friendly waitress you could tell customers have been coming there for years, overall nice place would recommend.

If you ever want to feel as if you’re in a small Texas town without taking the trouble to drive out of Houston, try this place. For me, it’s a time-​warp experience since it’s changed very little since I was a teenager going there during visits to Houston in the 60s. Service is always friendly, the menu is not complicated, and it’s your basic southern comfort food, no frills. Check out the footprints worn into the floor at the counter, testimony to generations of customers and an element of true authenticity.

Fast service & friendly waitress. The breakfast is so delicious. I recommend Triple A restaurant.

Ol’ diner and restaurant feel. Consistent quality and taste in food. Reliable place to get hot meal for less than $ 10

Stopped in for lunch. The food was good although the menu was a little limited. The service was also very friendly. I would stop in again if I lived in Houston.

Partner used to eat here many years ago when he worked in the area. We had lunch. Partner had the stuffed pepper with greens, tomato and cucumber salad. I had fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and a dinner salad. Lettuce was brown, gravy was from a can, the dinner rolls were not homemade. Fried chicken was great and stuffed pepper was delicious. Service was polite and quick.

One of my favorite home cooking restaurants in Houston, conveniently located next to Canino’s market. Ive been coming here for years, but only a few times a year when I’m craving CFS and homemade yeast rolls, or when I want life to come to a screeching halt and have a quiet lunch with an older crowd.
My typical order is the Chicken fried steak and most days if not on special you will pay the dinner price for it, a whole $ 10.95. Still less than most other places around town for a top quality CFS. The breading is perfectly crisp, never overcooked and they seem to use tenderized cubed steak, which has a pretty good thickness to it on most CFS’s I’ve ordered over the years. The white gravy is not the best I’ve ever had but it’s good. On my most recent visit, I chose loaded baked potato and baked mixed squash as my sides. Real bacon bits on the potato, can’t beat that. The baked squash is about as good as you can get. They have either sweet or regular tea here.

Our go-​to breakfast place before we get our fruits and vegetables from the Farmers Market.

Delicious, southern, homestyle food! Great service. All of the décor in the restaurant seems like it’s original from when it opened in the 1940’s, and I love it. The seafood gumbo is delicious, and I’m very picky when it comes to gumbo!

Years and years ago the food here was YUMMY! Not so anymore. I believe they are serving old leftovers now. Baked potatoes are dry, greens are flavorless and bitter, rolls are TERRIBLE and the cornbread is even worse… dry and old. My husband says the seafood gumbo is really good but I think after today I will pass on this place. Pretty sad since they’ve been around so long. Way over priced as well for poor quality food.

I use to eat here a lot when I lived around the corner but only get over here a few times a year now. I was craving chicken and dumpings and as usual they don’t disappoint. The collards were cooked to perfection. The cucumbers salad was a little soggy for my taste but the exquisite bread pudding made up for that. The service today was good but a bit quirky for my taste. I guess I can only be called sugar so many times, however I understand this is the kind of service you get at a country cooking establishment.

Down home good southern food. The daily lunch specials are great way to sample the country cuisine.

Fast, friendly, delicious home-​style cooking. What more could you want?
Love the breakfast. Reminds me of a diner where I grew up. They serve breakfast til 3 on Saturdays, so sleep in and then grab a bite to eat.

This southern style diner is hidden away on Airline next to Canino’s. Just one old, very faded sign marks it. Despite having driven by it for many years I never noticed or visited it until I went with a friend who had read a review of their chicken fried steak.
Since then, I’ve been to Triple A perhaps five times. Highlights include their Triple A special, a double cheeseburger that’s excellent, especially with the onion rings. They have many lunch with vegetable specials, which appear to be the staple of the mostly local clientele. Their chicken fried I found it good, but not exceptional.
In many ways, it’s like one of those diners that time forgot. You see the footprints where previous patrons have sat. The waitresses are friendly but quite busy.
I’ve had some disappointments with the speed with which the food has been served. Today I went in, ordered breakfast, something they serve all day on Saturday. 30 minutes and two apologies from the waitress later, the manager, who I’m guessing is also part of the family comes over to explain that the delay, which she said the waitress should have mentioned was because I had ordered sausage, and they pat it out themselves… Um. Yeah… When I was openly incredulous that it would take that long to fry a sausage patty, even if hand sculpted, she said it would be right out.
The breakfast was good. The sausage in fact was tasty, and their omelets are their best breakfast items. Biscuits were on the dry, hard side, but few restaurants in Houston make decent biscuits, so I don’t fault them too much for it.
This particular situation could have been handled better if she had just said, «sorry, we screwed up. Let me comp the OJ.» This is where the family-​owned part becomes a drawback, because instead of a professional response, I received a defensive, shift the blame reaction.
Still, I’ll probably continue to go and have the Triple A special or the occasional omelet, just not when I’m in a hurry.

I’ve been going here with my family ever since I was 3 years old, and I must say even after leaving the nest I still go there! I love it there, it’s comforting and the food is just as much so! It’s a family owned place, those always seem to be my favorite places.
The food to me is so good, especially since I HUGE on comfort food! I’ve been going there my entire life, and NO JOKE, my family has been going there on a DAILY, if not, at least, 3 times a week. I’ve had literally EVERYTHING they have on their Menu and I love it ALL, especially the prices!
My favorites are their Fried chicken (every SATURDAY), the collard and mustard greens (I always get 2 orders), Beef tips and noodles, corn beef and cabbage, the corn bread is to die for (my little sister asks for them EVERY TIME), and their COFFEE! I’m sure I missed a few, but those were always my favorites! I love how they have different selections on the menu everyday.
Over all I love this place it’s HOME!

It is sad that the owners do not smile or say thank you to customers as the customer leaves the restaurant. The owners look like they do not want to be there and wear that look on their faces. I have to be in a certain mood to eat the good food. Still in search of comfort food with a smile and a thank you

Best chicken and dumplings I have ever had. The chicken was exceptional and well as the dumplings. The cornbread muffins were great as well. Not pretty just great comfort food. Great place for lunch.

A restaurant stuck back in time — sure feel like a truck stop restaurant. Price is cheap and service is fast. Tried the chicken fried steak since it was in Houston Press top 100 Houston favorite food — the steak itself is nice and crispy, but the gravy is tasteless for me. Portion is just enough, not as big as I expected.

Simple and to the point meals, that fill your hunger needs at reasonable prices.
The waitstaff does their job and unless you are a regular, they aren’t very friendly.
I have never seen the couple that owns the restaurant smile or thank a customer
for their business, but then we don’t go here for the ambiance… just good food.

I want to like this place. It has old school charm. The waitresses, like everyone else said, are sassy but sweet.
The establishment is old looking, probably has never been remodeled since opening day. Wood panelled walls, counter-​top seating that is about 4′ high (I guess so the elderly dont have to climb into the stools if eating at the counter??)
We went after shopping at the farmers’ market in the next lot at noon on saturday. I had read good reviews about the chicken and dumplings.
So, this place is typical diner grub: burgers, fried chicken parts, and diner specials: chicken and dumplings, beef stew, etc.
The specials come as an big plate entrée by itself, or you can get a smaller portion with 3 sides. My bf got the smaller bowl of chicken and dumplings, with his sides of turnip greens, creamed corn and mashed potatoes with brown gravy. I ordered from the sandwich section and got the open faced, hot beef sandwich, which i thankfully asked for the brown gravy on the side, and accompanied the sandwich with fries.
*sigh*
My sandwich was 2 thick slabs of pale grey-​ish, brown, dry looking roast beef on 2 thin, non-​toasted, slices of white bread. the bowl of brown gravy on the side tasted like thick brown water. no joke. the fries were good, thick cut like at denny’s. very non-​appealing and bland.
The chicken and dumplings is nothing to write home about. A thick broth of mixed chicken pieces (you can specify all white, all dark, or mixed) and homemade dumplings. no vegetables, barely any seasoning. the dumplings were tender and soft, the chicken was good, but I need some more contract in the dish. maybe some peas. or carrots?
The sides of turnip greens were SO sweeeet, why would you add sugar to a veggie dish?! Ironically, while waiting for the «one stall» bathroom, I read the reviews posted in the hall outside stated that the veggies were so fresh since they come from the farmers’ market next door. um, no. either they were canned, or cooked to death. the cream corn was ok, kinda greasy, not creamy. the mashed potatoes are real, not from flakes, so that was sort of a saving grace.
After tasting my brown water gravy, my bf regretted asking for brown gravy on his mashed potatoes.
And also, the rolls that are served to you are SO dry and dense. Seriously, the dinner roll may be just as deadly as a baseball. It’s weird that the reviews from the newspaper and magazine clippings raved about how moist the cornbread was. this was the EXACT opposite.
I know this place caters mostly to old white folks. And that’s fine. Some people just like food plain and simple, and for the price, that’s what you get. So, now i can say that I’ve been here… and I dont need to come back. Another review said the burgers were good. Eh, I’ll stick to Fuddruckers :)
The waitress was very prompt, direct and nice.