Backstreet Cafe Restaurant Review
1103 S. Shepherd Dr. (W. Dallas St.) 
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Houston, TX 77019
713-521-2239 | Menu
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Backstreet Cafe Restaurant is one of our 2012
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Cuisine
Open
Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sun.Features
- View
- Kid-friendly
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Bob Chadwick Trio at Sunday brunch
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking
- Casual
Wine
Great Wine List* Click here for rating key
 Backstreet Café is housed in a renovated two-story home sporting a sizeable patio in the backyard that sings during the Sunday jazz brunch. The restaurant’s favorite entrées are joined by breakfast traditions like gingerbread waffles, frittatas and migas (eggs scrambled with corn tortilla strips, serrano peppers and tomatoes). Standout appetizers are the smoked corn crab cakes in citrus beurre blanc; sherried wild mushroom soup with Gorgonzola toast; and salmon-and-lobster rolls with ginger-soy-scallion sauce. Chef Hugo Ortega excels with crusted entrées with such inventions as Parmesan-and-sesame-crusted shrimp, mustard-crusted salmon and pecan-crusted chicken. The meatloaf tower is aptly named, as it's usually leaning a little by the time it arrives at the table thanks to its precarious stacked presentation involving garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed spinach, the whole ladled with mushroom gravy. Sommelier Sean Beck oversees the impressive wine list.
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