54th Street Restaurant & Drafthouse

1303 IH 35 S, San Marcos - 78666
421 reviews
American Burgers
(512) 396-5400

Tonight was my moms 66th birthday! Myself and my brother and his family all had a wonderful dinner amd drinks. Our server, Eddie, was super awesome and brought our orders out to our table, with perfection. Absolutely the best customer service from the hostesses seating us down to them thanking is for dining with them. 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Food was great! Great selection of food and our waiter was phenomenal!

Large servings, friendly staff, clean and organized place. Large margaritas and server was very attentive.

All around amazing. In and about fast.

It was lunchtime. We had been shopping at the outlet malls and had worked up a good appetite, but because it was Monday, several places were not open. I came across 54th St. and thought it may be the place for us to try something new. We were not disappointed! The atmosphere and all of the paraphernalia hanging on walls and such was really neat to admire. Our server was very cordial and helpful. The reason for 4 stars is for the wait on drinks and for being greeted. I felt like it could have been a little quicker. Other than that, my Bloody Mary and his beer were cold and tasty. The spaghetti and meatballs , he says, were the best he ever had. I had the mushroom appetizer, and it was really great! It hit the spot. Their prices are reasonable enough, and offer meal deals which is always a plus. Upon leaving, we used the restroom facilities which are very nice and clean. We highly recommend this place for a nice meal, good food and atmosphere. Very pleased and will return again when in the area.

The atmosphere is pretty laid back. Pretty cool spot for the family to hang out. We went around 6 on a Saturday and wasn't really to long of a wait. 30 min. Waiters are friendly and food comes out in a timely manner. The food is good as well.

Food was really good. Place was well staffed. Clean bathrooms. Very popular place.

Wanted a place near the hotel but NOT a chain (I can eat at them at home). They had a meal that included one appetizer to share, 2 entrees and 1 dessert to share. The choices sounded good but the sirloin was a little tough on one entrée. The noise level and alcohol levels were very high.

A little disappointing. Everything started off fine. We were greeted by a friendly hostess and our party of 6 was seated promptly at our reserved time. Our server were friendly. The atmosphere was good and not too noisy. Our cocktails were all tasty (I had a Thirsty Goat amber ale and it was also very good). Unfortunately the food was just okay. I had the smash burger and it was easily the worst burger I’ve had in a very long time. It was very dry and tasted like meatloaf. I think they were going with a White Castle burger style because it tasted stewed in onion. The sirloin was ordered medium and came out well done and was very tough. We would have pointed this out to our server but it had gotten busy and we didn’t see him again until we were ready to pay our tab.

Time arrived - 4pm on a Saturday (not busy).Party of 4First and foremost, the service during our visit was horrible. When I first walked in, it took the staff about to minutes to acknowledge I was even standing there (after they were done looking at their phones).Once I was able to be added to the list the wait time was fairly short - only took about 8 minutes for the text to come thru on my phone informing me the table was ready.My wife, 2 kids and I were seated and our waiter immediately came to take our drink orders (did not provide his name- later found out his name is Adrian our receipt).My wife, daughter and I ordered unsweetened tea while my son ordered Sprite. We received our drinks but there was no sugar provided (or any on the table). My wife also noticed there was a lipstick stain on her glass.When we were finally able to get our waiter's attention - we informed him of the tainted cup and our lack of sugar. We responded, "oh ok", took my wife's glass and headed off into the kitchen.He returned moments later with few packets of sugar and a new glass of tea - only this time there was no ice. When asked why, the waiter replied, " I could of sworn I heard 'no ice'... be right back" before walking away again.After about 10 minutes (and several passes from the waiter) we still did not receive the cup of Ice and we assumed our waiter just forgot our request - so we had to remind him once again and he finally returned with the cup of ice.The service didn't improve from there - we had to request silverware for the table once our food arrived and both times we requested refills for our drinks our server Adrian appeared to be annoyed by the request.On the plus side, the food didn't take long to come out. We all ordered burgers that were seasoned well (and the fries were great!).If you can make it past the "service" staff, there's some potentially good food to be had here, it's just not worth the hastle for me personally given that there are many other restaurant choices in the area. Would not eat here again