Babe's Old Fashioned Food - San Antonio

The restaurant Babes on Bandera in Helotes is not good. It was not as busy as they would like to claim. Ordering was simple, but they got it wrong twice, not just for us. Other customers also experienced the same issue.

I had a wonderful time celebrating my granddaughter's 20th birthday with delicious food and excellent service at this restaurant.

On Thursday at 5:30 o'clock, not too busy. food came fast and fresh. bacon burger and chili burger both very good. they have fresh fries. they are pretty good (I prefer cheap prefabricated frozen someone has put some songs on the jukebox, was super loud and not my type of music, so we ate fast and left.

I ordered two of the Chicken tender plates to go so that I could take my husband lunch during his 30 minute lunch break on the other side of town. My bill came to almost $30 which is what you can expect to pay for good food. Key word being “good”. It took longer than normal and I overheard them saying that only one fry basket was working or something of that sort. So I waited and it took about 28-30 minutes so I had to grab the food and run to the other side of town in 15 minutes which was fine because I made it in time. I opened mine and was immediately disappointed because everything was completely saturated in grease, it looked unappetizing, and they had set the ranch on top of the hot fries which curdled the ranch and popped the lid off of the ranch container. My husband opened his and picked up a strip which the chicken slid completely out of the breading. The breading on the strips was soggy in some spots and a “gummy” texture in others. The breading was a really dark brown which made them look like they had been over cooked. I called and spoke with the manager (which I believe just so happened to be the one that cooked all this), and she said that I can bring them back and she would make more otherwise there’s nothing else she can do. I even explained to her how it would be impossible for me to bring them all the back and wait for them to make more and then come all the way back in under 30 minutes before my husband had to get back to work. There was no apology or any attempt to keep customers coming back. Since that was pointless, a waste of $30 for inedible food, and short on time before lunch breaks was over, the only thing that was even decent was the Texas Toast which I, of course, paid extra for. So we ate our Texas toast, maybe a couple of the grease drenched fries and had to toss the rest so my husband could get back to work. Trying to not let it ruin the rest of our day, but that was sad and disappointing and I’m 100% positive we won’t be coming back. ?

Went to HR Block for an appointment, so my husband and I decided to check out this restaurant. In our opinion, it's the best place for burgers. We really enjoyed it. We also tried the chicken strips on another visit, and they didn't disappoint. This has become our go-to spot when we are in the Potranco area.