Raffles Restaurant & Bar

One of the best burgers ever! Pleasantly surprised. It takes a while before you get the food but the quality and taste makes it worth while.

Liked the décor and music and was excited to order the ribeye special. After having an appetizer and drink I was forgotten about. The bartenders never offered another drink or filled my water. Sat for 25 minutes and decided to leave even though earlier we discussed that I was going to order the steak.
Too many other restaurants to choose from to put up with such poor service

Has great food and atmosphere! Great prices! Friendly staff and service!
Great experience. I will be back!

This place is easy to miss but is super good. Here for training for a week and just a skip and walk from the crowne plaza hotel. Food is super good, great quality and tastey. The burgers, fish tacos and club sandwich was awesome!

The food is delicious. But for some reason only have two waitresses and that’s a pretty big place. I would suggest getting more weight to staff so everyone can be served at an adequate time. Is it Tuesday nights a great night for steak night should come out… but make sure you have time to spare!

The Burger was good, that’s about it. The waiter didn’t ask or fill our drinks. The atmosphere is strange and smelled of older people’s strong perfumes and colognes mixed together. Allthough I wasn’t really into this type of place, there seemed to be a crowd of people in their 50’s and older that were enjoying it. Just not for me.

Well, I’m glad I wasn’t thirsty! I sat at the bar and waited, and waited, and waited for the bartender to ask me if I wanted something to drink! She wasn’t busy, and even stood in front of me watching the television twice without even acknowledging my presence. It took another bartender walking behind the bar before she snapped to my presence and asked if I wanted anything.
That one sale was it, I was never asked again. Maybe I’m invisible, but at 284 pounds and close to six feet, I would think not!
There was a band, an ear splittingly loud band, and about 25 patrons all huddled close to the stage. The music wasn’t bad, just horribly loud.
I think there were maybe 2 or three persons under 45, most appeared to be pushing closer to my age (62), but they were a lively bunch!
Food? I was not asked and did not see anyone eating; the restaurant was empty.
I went there looking for an older crowd, and I sure found it. I did get there late, around 10:00 PM on a Sunday night; I’ll give it another try sometime, maybe earlier, on another day, with a friend, and a bigger hat!

What I like about this place is that it is so unpretentious and unfussy. It’s a down to earth, friendly place where everyone is welcome. Yes the clientele skews a little older and a little strange sometimes, but everyone is accepted here.
If you find people fascinating in general, and are looking for interesting characters for your novel, this is a place you should check out. If you’re looking for the latest artisanal hipster cocktail made with a blowtorch or something, this is probably not the place for you.

This is not a place I would have steak again. The baked potatoe even tasted kind of funny. Even the drink tasted funny. …eek!

They charge a cover with a lousy DJ, not even band playing. Drinks are watered down. Much better choices around town!

Steak night? More like Hell night! It all started with the bartenders. We sat at the bar to begin with, very few people were there, yet we had to ask the bartender for every refill. When we got to our table, it took the waitress 15 minutes to even acknowledge us. After we placed our drink order with the waitress we waited — and waited and my boyfriend finally got up and went to the bar to get our drinks. The food took over an hour to come out. It’s an $ 11.00 steak so our expectations were not extremely high however we ordered it medium rare and received it well done! No way were we sending it back after waiting so long. Our waitress was flaky, unattentive and just plain bad. We even had to clear our own table of dirty dishes.
There’s a reason they call this place «Wrinkles.» Maybe a younger, better trained and more attentive staff would be helpful.

Price of beer is way too high for this type of establishment. I think they think they are the AT&T Center.
Also, it seems that most of the people there are just looking for a quick hook up and they are all over 60 years old! People! Act your age and please dress your age! Not a pretty site when wrinkles and fat are hanging out.
NEVER again!

While Raffles has a very limited lunch menu, the food is really great! I had a ribeye and baked potato one lunch that was outstanding. Again, there may only be one or two options on their menu depending on day, but it’s worth calling ahead to see what they’re offering.
The night bar scene is spectacular for unintentional comedy.

Went to Raffles for a holiday cocktail hour with people from work. The interior is nicely decorated, there is a lot of very nice wood work. Seems a little stilted and formal for my taste, however. My biggest complaint was how dark it was in the area where we were corralled — I had to use my phone as a flashlight if I wanted to read! The waitress was not very gracious or attentive, and they definitely could’ve used at least one server more for our group.
There was a lounge singer act performing fantastic hits from 70’s, 80’s, and I’m sure they were creeping up into the 90’s! Big thumbs up to the keyboard player for coming through with those synth sounds we all loved…20 years ago.
I’m not the youngest person around, but I think I was the youngest in this place. If you’re looking for a place where 85% of the guys have porn mustaches, this place is for you!

Wow. This place is priceless!!! The lover and I did our bar rounds in the back of the Magic Time Machine recently. We hit up Raffles, a gem of a bar before going to a show at the Mine Shaft Saloon. I’m glad we did. This is what you would call an upscale dive. Ha! At first, the lover had to take his hat off, signs of a fancy place. We made our way in the liquor stenched bar to find a fabulous little dance floor and a greatly sized bar filled with a plethora of bottles as well as seats. It was like the scene from a movie. There were several business class middle aged sauced up people dancing like they might become swingers. There was a horrible singer doing a nightmare take on a George Strait song.
The whole place was a dream for people watchers. All in all it was the best 45 minutes at a bar we’ve had in a long time.

love this place and the owners are downright friendly, when I come into town from Mexico I can not wait to visit, the music and drinks are great, and everyone who is there are so much fun and kind, this is one place I really missed after leaving San Antonio, and they have a patio so smoking is okay after this stupid law passed, you go GAR and RITA, love you guys, miss your restaurant and bar so much.

This is an ol’ bluehair bar. I was too young to know what that meant when I first heard someone use that descriptor for it – but not too young to reach over the counter and hoist a cold one. This Alamo Heights institution is right next to my former digs at Scene in SA magazine. You can bet we blew off a lot of steam here – and boy, did they treat us well. Don’t tell anyone (is TABC on here?) but we may have taken some cocktails in syrofoam containers back on that short walk to the office. We used to joke that they were going to erect a golden plaque for our boss, «Zilly,» in his usual ‘70s fabric-​clad seat.
This is the kind of old-​timer place with eternally run-​down charm: Wet, dark air, with cheesy disco-​Tejano bands and slot machine games parked in random corners. Overpriced and overly greasy food. Bar staff that includes some cute young women, and barflies who will be going back to the old folks’ home after a boozy lunch. God love this place. They have a free happy hour buffet most days: fried fish, tacos, meatballs, soup, etc. I used to go gaga for their meatballs but they changed their recipe (or multinational corporation).