La Posada Main Dining Room

Mother’s Day brunch was beyond disappointing. I haven’t been here in years, so when I made the reservation I was remembering a place which is no longer what it was. The level of service has declined greatly and the food almost reached mediocre. For what is charged, I expected something better. That would have been true twenty years ago, but no more. I won’t be coming here again any time soon.

does not get better than the kobe burger and bread pudding!!!

My wife and I hate there Thursday night with two of our friends. was our first time there. I had the Kobe hamburger with steak fries. toasted sour dough bun. was delicious. meat was great, good flavor, fries good, presentation picture perfect. service a little slow. my wife had the turkey burger. no flavor there. with the condiments on the turkey burger helped with the taste. needed some seasoning.
sweet potato fries good. Hotel it self looks good.

We ate here twice since we were staying at the hotel.
We had a light supper and that was by far the better of the two meals. The house salad was fresh, nice lettuce, pepitas, pickled onions, oranges and other things — flavorful dressing. We each had soup. My chicken tortilla soup was quite good, but the special treat was the poblano bisque… so rich, so creamy, so flavorful. So sad that we weren’t hungrier or we could have more and more!
The breakfast buffet was a different story. Fortunately we were not charged full price for what was a scant buffet offering. The fruit was decent, the salsa for the eggs was unusual and good, but the eggs were hard to find, as in they were out of what should have been there. We decided on a custom omelet after trying hard for far too long to find the chef — it was fine and made as we liked. There were bland refried beans, but there was no bread, muffins, toast, biscuits, rolls, nothing. The OJ and coffee were good, and the server was especially personable and worked hard to be helpful. The potential is there to be very, very good, but what we had was sadly lacking, especially for the going rate of $ 12.50 each.

Poblano soup was great! Also had a wonderful sangria. The waiters were super friendly, and the whole experience was much better than expected for a hotel restaurant.

Food and drinks were delicious, but the kitchen was slow. From my understanding there is only one head chef and no sous chef. If they could fix this I would go more often and I’m sure others would too.

I found it a bit pricy for the quality. Good food though. Breakfast on the other hand is amazing. I highly recommend the Caribbean Hangover. Best breakfast I’ve ever had. Well, besides the All Star Special at Waffle House.

Can’t think of anything they can do different. A+

Slowish service but a damned good Kobe beef burger with chipotle mayo and sweet potato fries. Yum!

Great service, loved the battered asparagus… I ordered the Zaragoza tampiqueña which had a little bit of everything, great tasty dish…

I attended a rehearsal dinner with food catered directly from La Posada’s main dining room. The décor was nice enough and the service initially attentive. That’s about where things got very, very bad.
After the entire party was served but me, I was assured by the staff that my food was on it’s way. As the servers began to clear plates, it became very apparent that was not the case. Almost 30 minutes after the staff served the other guests a plate of pork, lobster polenta & string beans, I was served a plate of pork, saffron rice & a few stalks of asparagus. Despite my disappointment that they brought me a different dish, I was so hungry I decided to dig in. Again, serious issues ensued. To my horror, the pork was completely raw. When I notified the staff, they apologized and took the plate away. No mention of getting me something else (cooked or uncooked) and no explanations.
Overall, this was probably the worst dining experience I have ever had anywhere and at any point in my life. Caring about your patron’s dining experience is a vital part of any restaurant’s continued success and the staff at La Posada failed miserably in this department. Extremely disappointing.

So, I am stuck in Laredo and don’t dare cross the border. The La Posada hotel is the best hotel in Laredo, but more on that in my upcoming hotel review. The main dining room here is called Zaragoza (the name of the street it’s on)
It’s a small restaurant with a great chef. I sat at the bar and watched college football on a nice flat panel. The wine selection was great and reasonably priced.
I started with the zaragoza cheviche — shrimp, tilapia, avocado, cilantro, oranges… yes, I said oranges. I was a bit worried here but it was awesome. The presentation was great too. It’s served on a large plate and looks more like a tuna tartar appetizer. Cilantro was drizzled around the edges, and the whole thing was served with dark and light chips. I paired that with the Menage a’ Trois, Folie a Deux from Napa. Nice
Main course, at the bartender’s suggestion, was the Chicken Chipotle Pasta. The flavor was perfect. Served in a large, misshapen bowl, it combines chicken spinach, zucchini, with a chipotle cream sauce. It is actually a light dish with a nice spicy kick. I paired this with the Folie a’ Deux red zin from Napa.
any downsides? Yes. the pasta was overcooked for my taste. Being Italian, that might be a personal preference.
OK…an update… still in Laredo… I went for a run and realized what the town smells like: wet animal with a hint of garbage… but onto the review. tonight I had the chicken and cheese enchiladas. they were served with Spanish rice and the best re-​fried beans I’ve ever had. Great meal.

Had the lunch buffet here. Good selection of authentic Tex-​Mex. I believe they have a different buffet lineup each day of the week. Reasonable price and in a very historic/​scenic area. We sat outside on a reasonably cool Texas day. The service was fantastic, it didn’t hurt that it was a buffet since I was the only person in Laredo who didn’t speak Spanish.

My pal and I wandered in off the street in the middle of our walking tour of the historic plaza area. The courtyard was so lovely that we decided to stop for breakfast. It took a bit of explaining to get the waiter to sit us out on the patio, but it was worth it. Sitting in the sunshine, under draped fabric awnings, and an orange tree was the perfect way to enjoy a breakfast.
Sadly the vegetarian options were limited at best, so I just had some suspect hashbrowns and biscuits, but my partner had a full american-​styled breakfast. While they certainly had tex-​mex on the menu, it seemed to cater to the more angle tourist crowd than to the locals.
The food was okay, the setting was lovely, the service was spotty. It might be a better place to sit and have a drink than to have a meal, but your experience will certainly differ from mine.

I tend to judge restaurants based on their reaction to my people (vegetarians). The restaurant at the hotel La Posada is like 99.9% of the restaurants in South Texas… they act like they’ve never HEARD of vegetarians down here, I swear.
Anyway, we’re looking at holding a work event here, so we went to try out the food. I must first note that the hotel where the restaurant is located is insanely beautiful and historical, and is literally RIGHT on the border with Mexico in old downtown Laredo. Super cool setting.
The service at Posada was good. We wanted to sit out by the pool… so they let us sit out there. The only thing though — we’re grownups and this is a pretty nice place, no kids running wild or anything like that… was it really necessary to serve our drinks in Styrofoam cups? It really killed the atmosphere to sip the margarita out of a big plastic straw and Styrofoam cup. However, the margarita really wasn’t that good anyway (Come on! we’re a minute and a half from Mexico and no decent margaritas?) so perhaps the Styrofoam cup was fitting.
The most important part — the food! Just skip South Texas completely if you’re a vegetarian. Seriously. If I eat one more plate of cheese quesadillas (their idea of a vegetarian ‘meal’ here was a plate of beer battered fried asparagus — which was fine, but not a meal) I might lose my mind. The quesadillas here were not any different from any of the four million plates of cheese quesadillas I have had since we got this contract back in 2007. My coworker the meat eater left very full and happy, though. His pork chops were a thing of beauty, and by the way he cleaned his plate I am going to guess they were worth every penny of the $ 35 they cost.
Mostly I would say this place is OK, better if you like meat or seafood, and kind of overpriced. Complimentary valet was a nice touch, though!