Castlehill

Amazing quality food and beverages. This is a must try and repeat. Chef is top notch.

Castle hills looked like a great new place to try and has a Michelin star chef behind this, so my wife and I went for the first time last week. First impression we great. The menu had all the makings of a great restaurant and everything sounded delicious. The atmosphere looks nice and loved the "no mames way" bar. Unfortunately first impressions can be deceiving. I got a their 6 course tasting with wine pairings and my wife got a charcuterie board and a rib eye. The charcuterie board was less than adaquate. We got the small board. It had a good amount of blue cheese and a small wedge of a spicy cheese that I'm pretty sure is Colby jack. It was a bit strange the cheeses weren't cut or sliced and fairly cold. So with only a butter knife it was difficult to eat unless you just bite the cheese wedge. There was also just two small round slices of prosciutto a few grapes and some honey. This was not a great start. Then I got my first course. It was a ceviche (chef amuse) and bread. Complete 180. The ceviche was light and fresh, not super lime forward. The bread omg this bread and the herb butter was probably our favorite thing we had. I wish the board had this bread because we just disregarded the carbs on the board in favor do the bread. Second course was a brioche bun with pulled pork and onions on top. It looked great but it was far from good. Brioche is supposed to be soft and fluffy, though this one was hard and dry. The texture was like a corn bread. The pulled pork flavor was flat and the texture was like it was ran through a blender for too long. It was like baby food with a slight pulled pork flavor. This was just terrible all around.Next was the scallops, damn these were amazing scallops. Perfectly cooked, not rubbery. The sauce complimented it so well. I wish this course was bigger because I loved those two little scallops. There was what I think is a piece of prosciutto that looked nice but was burnt to a crisp, like bacon that you forgot about and it crumbles at a touch.Then my wife got her steak and I got a "pork steak" the steak, while a bit overcooked (we ordered med rare) was still very tender and season great. There was a strong and delicious rosemary flavor to it. The giant slice of tomato and head of galic on top was very strange though. The pork though... was a block of dry flavorless meat. This was so overcooked, there was zero juice and I don't know if they thought the sauce would make up for a lack of seasoning, because it surely did not. It was just two small strips and I couldn't finish even one. Lastly was the pre dessert and dessert. The predessert was a sorbet with a couple wafers in it. The sorbet was delicious, not too sweet, and the wafers complimented it well. The last dessert was a chocolate soufle. The presentation was great, but again, that was the only good thing about it. The soufle was still VERY raw. It was like a bowl of uncooked eggs with a couple bits of bread. Soufle should be soft and gooey in the middle but this was the majority of it. The only solid part was the top. They put ice cream and WAY too much chocolate on it so even if it was fully cooked all I could taste as chocolate sauce.So of the 6 courses 3 were good but the other 3 were terrible. The wine pairing were well done, though the white wine I got probably needed more aeration and less bits of cork. The service... was a huge miss too. With a multi course meal and at any fine dining, you usually get more info from your server. Like they'll tell you about what's in the food, what they do or what makes it fine (ie their pork versus just grilled pork). Or maybe why they choose that dish, did they have a connection to it, did they adapt it from somewhere, you know something more than just here's the next course, bye.This was especially obvious with the soufle. They have some table service for it but there was never any mention of said table service so when they went in with a spoon to break the soufflé, I thought they were handing it to me. This isn't something that is the wait staffs fault personally, that's definitely a training and management issue. There is no expectation of giving an experience. That's fine for a regular restaurant, but when you brag about a Michelin star chef and their tags are "classy" and you have the chefs Netflix episode played on loop... something is awry. Then you look closer and that's about on par with everything here. It's a lot of LOOKING nice, not authentically nice. There faux brick panels everywhere, there's bottles filled with water as decor, there's cheap dirty grill on the patio. It's a lot like what I got with their food. It's all looks great, presentation is awesome, but it didn't have what counts most, taste. I included our receipt for you to see everything we ordered. We spent a total of $186 before taxes and tip. Also wtf 4% admin fee?

Nachos and fries were fantastic. Fish in the "fish and chips" was so so. The fish should have been a cod or something more substantial versus the local substitute.

Odd location but super cool place to drink, eat and celebrate a bday. My husband got the castlehill burger and devoured it before i could get a pic. I got the seafood mac n cheese and eat every bit of it. Drinks were so beautiful and delicious. They even have a kids menu which i didnt expect for sucha nice place.

Not a great experience. The service was slow. We arrived around 6 30 pm the restaurant started filling up. We were a table of six planning to enjoy a good meal with friends. We started noticing that people was not taking our orders. We had to ask someone to come and take our orders to take our meal orders, we noticed that the people that arrived after us were being served meals before our arrived.To my opinion, the food needed a lot more flavoring.

Inside was very dark, so dark I could barely see my food. Very cold, and playing very strange music for a supposed British pub.$103 dollars for a pile of mushy Dog shit! The fish was small but made to look huge because it was covered in way too much breading. Very mushy. Chips were mush. They brought the peas out after I had eaten half of my meal. The chef's salad was good. The Charcuterie tray was okay, but very small. They charge for refills of soda. And Fuck you and your "Admin Fee" you tacked on my bill. Go to California if you want to do that, this is TEXAS!! I won't be back.

I'm not completely sold on this restaurant yet, maybe it's just too new and they are still trying to figure out things I will definitely try it again in a few months. Let's start out with the hype, known chef for being on Netflix show coming to the RGV sounds badass but is that enough for people in that area to appreciate something different? I was there on a Wednesday and it was tricky to find the place it's behind the front facing part of a shopping center in the corner, if you go there during regular hours don't be afraid to pull on the door there's a suction of air that makes you have to pull hard in that door, once you're inside the place looks super clean and inviting. I was a bit confused by the staffs kilts after looking at the menu which didn't have anything really Scottish, a table ordered some type of drink and the whole staff brought it out with sparkling candles like bottle service at a lounge, but the staff was really nice they seem to get along and were playing some great music. There was also only 3 other tables around 7 pm so I sat at the bar. I noticed the bar counter had bottles of Malibu, Smirnoff, Tito's, jack Daniels and western son, but the wall of the bar also had those same bottles on display too so it looked very cheap and crowded not something I expected to see at a place like this. I ordered an old fashioned and I got a bourbon on the rocks with an orange peel would definitely not order that again, my second drink was a mezcal drink on their menu that was better.I started with the calamari, the texture of the calamari was good but I could not taste the Chile ancho or lime flavor the menu said it had, presentation was great but not enough for me to recommend. I asked for the 10oz aged ribeye steak and it was cooked great, no overwhelming seasoning like a lot of places, it was served with some steak potatoes and fried onions, the waiter asked me if I wanted ketchup, I was hoping for maybe a chimichurri sauce or some other dipping sauce from such a hyped up place, but everything was cooked well. Overall prices are reasonable for the food and weirdly all over the place menu and environment but not enough to make it a must go or even a once a quarter place to go. This is the type of place that I would go to if I was a high school kid trying to impress my home coming date but not trying to spend all of my summer job money.

We honestly didn't take pictures since we weren't in the happiest of moods. We've been before and honestly their drinks are always 10/10. Appetizers have always been chefs kissFast forward to Valentine's Day where we paid 99 for a 10 course meal. The chocolate martini me personally was too sweet however my friend did love it. They only had drinks from their valentines menu (3/4 options). Due to my drink being too sweet I asked for a carreta but they their v-day drinks were all they offered. HOWEVER they ran out of their Moscow mule so they did prep my drink after all.We had reservations for 9 hoping the area would be a little less packed- nope. We had to wait for our seat about 15 min and 20min to just get our drinks. Don't get me wrong the food was amazing but the service was horrible. The food took forever. Everyone who arrived after us left before us. It really felt like they forgot about it. We paid and left at 11:30! Would not recommend to go during a holiday. Very disorganized, the owner kept yelling at the staff (kept us entertained putting a Gordon R in the valley). We were two couples and had a 20% gratuity plus the 99 per person. Definitely not worth our time nor money. Honestly just go during happy hr. Appetizers and drinks are better when it's low demand

Our absolute favorite place to go. The food is amazing and the staff is friendly. I appreciate the laid back ambiance while being able to eat the most awesome food at the same time. Been to brunch, dinner, and even their monthly markets with the themed food. Nothing like it in the valley.

overstimulated. weird vibe. club music and flashy lights. Okay service it's hard to hear each other. Food is so mid. We got the ramen and it was literally maruchan instant noodles for 18 dollars.