o'brien's restaurant

i took a chance and stopped at thisrestaurantfor lunch on my way back to houston. best beef burger i may have ever had. quality meat. fresh jalapeño bun. fresh trimmings. creole mustard. fresh cut sweet potato fries. i was not disappointed.

update the menu. we go to o'brien's quite often and the food is very good, the bartender rob is fantastic; but the bar still allows smoking, which is a turn off. we've also grown bored with the menu. the owner is from arestaurantbackground and could certainly experiment with new entrees. the atmosphere is friendly with a texas feel and the restrooms are great {a part of arestaurantoften neglected} they have live music on several nights which can be very loud when they play inside. great macaroni and cheese!

good lunch...terrible muzak. i stopped in on a saturday for lunch. therestaurantwas largely empty and was being worked by one very busy hostess/waitress thanks to a baby shower or something in the back rooms. anyway, i ordered the turkey club sandwich which came with homemade french fries that were extremely good. the sandwich wasn't bad, but some restaurants like to stack club sandwiches beyond the point of being edible. o'briens is no exception - the sandwich was about five inches tall! tasty, but too big to eat easily. the only other notable was the awful muzak. it was that nouveau-jazz crap that you usually hear in hotel lobbies and corporate telephone lineswhile youre on hold. according to a card on my table, they have live music on saturday nights. can't be worse that what was playing during my visit.