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    White Oak Restaurant & Bar

    3.6 (353 reviews)
    Closed 6:30 am - 9:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Happy hour specials
    Good for groups

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    Chicken  Bacon Waffle
    Jooy C.

    One of the only restaurants inside Galleria Mall that opens early! There's plenty of space inside the are and some great brunch dishes here. Would recommend ordering the chilaquiles which were super tasty. Chicken & bacon-filled waffles were also good - the chicken had bones included but had good crisp and flavor. No complaints here and would bring my family again if we are wanting a place to sit down and escape the chaos of the Galleria.

    Debra K.

    Even though this is not attached to the Weston, it is considered their restaurant/bar option. (I didn't know that until I sat down and saw the Westin logo on the booth dividers.) Service was great. Old Fashioned was a bit strong. The chicken gyoza was maybe a bit below average. I didn't finish them. Honestly, I was not impressed with many dining options in the Gallaria. Maybe I chose poorly.

    Annie B.

    White Oak is a great place to stop for a bite to eat when shopping around the Galleria. The drinks are pretty good and the food is simple but good. The mac and cheese (despite looking a little underwhelming in the photo) was pretty good, I would just recommend they work on melting the cheese a bit more and making a thicker sauce. We sat at the bar and service was quick and friendly and it looked like there was a lot of seating options.

    Huevos Rancheros
    Isabel E.

    We came here early on Saturday and had their brunch menu. The huevos rancheros are very good! We ordered them the traditional way with the sunny side up eggs. The service was splendid and very attentive. This is a good place to come if you are looking for a good way to start your day

    Mediterranean Salmon
    Joshua P.

    I'm staying at the Galleria in Houston, TX, and they recommended this spot. The ambiance and service was amazing. I had the Mediterranean Salmon and it was amazing. The description had me skeptical but the dish was amazing. I had 4 spicy margaritas and it was the perfect touch.

    Smore's Bread Pudding and Pineapple Upside Down Waffle
    Jorena L.

    Nice location in the Galleria. Pretty quiet and wasn't busy on a Saturday night. They have a fantastic Yelp deal for $10 off an entree with the purchase of an appetizer or dessert. Food: We started off with the local salumi cheese board. The taste was pretty bland and overall unexciting. For the entree, my friend and I both had the Allen's Fried Chicken. The chicken was the best part of the dish.. very crispy and moist. It had a delightful pecan smoked bacon gravy on top. The cheesy truffle Mac was cheesy, but lacked even a hint of truffle flavor. The jalapeño-bacon jam needed more of a kick to really elevate this dish. My other friend had the Green Tea Lacquered Salmon. It was beautifully plated and perfectly cooked. She finished her entire plate. For dessert, I had the Smore's Bread Pudding. It was delicious! My friend had the Pineapple Upside Down Waffle and seemed to enjoy it. Service: The reason why I docked 3 stars. Service was one of the worst I have ever experienced. It was extremely slow. My friend has a nut allergy, so she alerted our server of this. Our server forgot to check if the cheese board had nuts, forgot to tell the chef to leave off the pecan gravy, and had no idea that the Smore's bread pudding had nuts. Nut allergies are very serious, and this is unacceptable. In addition, our server rarely checked on us and never filled up our empty water glasses for the entire 2 1/2 hours that we were there until we asked him to. Overall, food is decent. Service is bad.

    Zucchini frites.
    Cynthia C.

    I definitely wish I would have seen the Yelp deal for $10 off an entree with purchase of an appetizer/dessert. The food, service, and ambiance are not worth it for the price you pay. The restaurant can be accessed from inside the Galleria Mall, which is convenient if you're needing some energy before shopping again. The only window seats face directly into the mall though, so it's really not the best view and also takes away from the upscale vibe the restaurant is trying to go for. With how bad service was though, I would never even think to classify this place as an upscale establishment. There were only 2 other parties when we arrived, yet there was no one at the hostess stand and it took over 10 minutes for water to arrive. We had 4 people at our table that could seat 6 and our waiter accidentally brought us 5 waters - I'm not even sure what the thought process was here. My boyfriend drank his water as well as the extra. When the waiter came by, he only refilled one glass and didn't remove the extra. Again not sure what the thought process was here. Food took a ridiculous amount of time to come out and was hardly worth the wait. The only menu item I will praise is the zucchini fries - somehow among all the lackluster food, they produced something I would bother going back for. My spicy seafood linguini was a plain tomato sauce with red chili flakes like the kind you get for free with your pizza and the salmon on top was dry like it was pan fried to death and reheated.

    Zucchini frites
    Brandi P.

    They have an awesome coupon for $10 off a dinner entree if you get an appetizer or dessert when you check in on Yelp. The staff are pleasant, but don't check on you very often. I had to flag someone down twice. The zucchini frites are too big , so they were limp and soggy. The cup was full of oil at the bottom. They might taste better with marinara. The seafood linguini has a good flavor and a little kick, but the seafood was not fresh. The shrimp tasted frozen and the fish was dried out and very fishy. Ask for extra Parmesan cheese.

    Debbie O.

    Hostess was great; checked me in and seated me as soon as I walked in. My waiter was no where to be found; I sat and waited for 10 minutes with no waiter--eventually I signaled a different waiter from another section just so I could place my order. I honestly contemplated walking out but opted against it as my hostess was so kind and I was famished. The waiter issues seems to be of the norm because the table next to me also had to call for a random waiter minutes after being seated to place their order. I ordered the watermelon lemonade which was mostly water melon juice (don't get me wrong; it was a freshly squeezed juice that tasted like watermelons) with no taste of lemonade. For my entree, I opted for the chicken and shrimp pad Thai. It was cooked and served to me within 20 minutes. The chicken (which was ground) wasn't consistent with the chunks of shrimp it was mixed with in my personal opinion. The sauce for the pad Thai was overwhelmingly nutty. It was more of a peanut curry taste rather than pad Thai sauce. And although it was edible and tasted nice it wasn't pad thai sauce. With that said perhaps this isn't the best restaurant to try out Thai food especially if you're reading this and new to it. Go for a more contemporary American dish. I'd hate for you to judge Thai food based on a dish at an American Contemporary restaurant.

    New menu
    Christine D.

    We came here with a group after work. We made reservations and they had a nice table.set up for us. There were two other tables, with one couple each, in the restaurant and our table of 12. It took forever for us to be served our drinks, with the waiter disappearing for a very long period of time between drink orders. One of our group is gluten-free due to an allergy and she requested their gluten free menu, which they no longer had now since they switched to a new menu two days prior. When asked what they gluten free options were, our waiter had no clue and did not offer to ask for assistance with other staff or the chef. He told us to decided what she wanted and he would say if it was gluten free or not. Seriously?! We tried comparing the new menu to the ones posted online that DID have gluten-free options, but most of the items were altered. We did our best and made sure he wrote down that she was allergic so the food would be prepared correctly. Our food took newrly an hour after ordering to come out and, while it was very good and filling, the wait was agonizing on a day with so very few people present. One order was missing and we had to inform.him that it was missing instead of him noticing that one of our group had no food. Our waiter did not refill water unless requested and had to be flagged down in order to receive our bill. For such a nice restaurant in a fancy mall, the service was severely lacking. I would not recommend coming here when it is crowded if it took this long for us to be served when we were basically the only ones there. The decor and setting of the restaurant was great and the food was good, which is the only reason it got this many stars.

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