Lucienne Alessandra - Houston

Excellent food and a pleasant experience with wonderful service.

A group of 4 friends and I went to brunch at Lucienne prior to musical theater. I had read some very good reviews on Open Table. We were very disappointed. It was basically empty, except for a group of about 18 guests arriving and a table for 1. We were seated at a table for 8 rather than 2 smaller tables put together. In order to chat, we had to arrange ourselves on one end of the long table. No one came to give us a cocktail menu. We had to ask for someone to come over to take our order. I had Eggs Benedict with crab cakes. the crab cakes were heavily fried with a tough outer crust. My friend did not like her lobster panini. My other friend did not care for her raclette. One friend enjoyed her crepe. Again, after waiting for awhile for someone to come to the table and ask about dessert or whether we wanted the check, we had to ask the hostess to ask someone to come over. (I had put it in our Open Table reservation that we were on a schedule and had tickets to the theater. We received our checks and the manager brought over complimentary champagne for our inconveniences. It was hard to understand why the service was so bad. The restaurant was empty except for the table for 18, the table for 1 and our table of 5. I think there was just one waiter. With as many great restaurants that Houston has now, we will not be back.

The food was good but I had their chocolate cake an that in my opinion wasn’t very good but the service was great

We were blown away. We had almost three hours to kill between an afternoon play at the Alley and an evening symphony at Jones Hall so we looked for a new to us restaurant to try. The menu looked nice so we made a booking. We went for the 5 course tasting menu with wine pairings. I took advantage of their offer to get two items from one section and one item from each of three other sections rather than one from each of the 5 sections. Our taste buds exploded from the first byte. We can’t wait to come back so much so that my wife wants me to cancel her birthday reservation elsewhere and come back. We will return in three weeks!

Lucienne provided the perfect setting and meal for the celebration of the first anniversary of meeting my girlfriend. The interior design was retro chic, the service was classy, and the five course meal was the perfect amount of food. I would suggest you don’t drink before coming if you plan to have the wine pairings with dinner. Although we had an amazing time, we did struggle to keep up with the wines.