Cyclone Anaya Mexican Restaurant

Cyclone Anaya is a new Mexican restaurant located in City Centre in Houston.  The name sounds intriguing and would indicate fast service.  The interior and exterior of this establishment is beautiful.  It has a lot of nouveau contemporary sculpture pieces and beautiful furniture.  They have an extensive list of margaritas which they must be famous for because a lot of their patrons were drinking that and beer.  At this point is when I have to pause and say, "The good times have ended!"  When we walked in, we had a bit of a wait and when someone finally came they just asked if we needed a table for two.  We didn't get any type of greeting like welcome to Cyclone Anaya, my name is so and so...We finally got to our table and patiently waited for the waitress.  She was at least nice but she never told us her name and if there were any specials, we knew nothing about them.  We just ordered some water and ice tea.  The ice tea was awful.  My husband said it tasted like there was fuel at the bottom of the barrel, then rinsed out and tea was added...not good.  I decided to order something familiar and ordered the Rollo Anaya which is grilled chicken, mexican rice, grilled vegetables, refried beans and guacomole.  My husband ordered the tamales.  Our chips and salsa came and the salsa tasted like chunky ketchup with pepper added.  When our dinner came out, I received two big pieces of grilled chicken on top of my mexican rice with a lemon on top.  I had to move the breast to see the rice.   The grilled vegetables were 4 slices of grilled squash , the refriend beans looked and tasted like a dried up lump of brown beans.  There were two chunky slices of guacomole and two large chunks of tomatoes.  The thinest part of the chicken was kind of juicy and it was well seasoned.  The tamales were covered with a lot of cheddar cheese which sat on the dish like velveeta.  The tamales had more oil then Exxon Valdes.  I told him I had better food at Taco Cabana.  We finished our meal by admiring the decor and proceeded out the door.  Hopefully management will get their act together or change their executive chef.  It would be a shame to see this beautiful restaurant go out of business before its time.