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| - This place has a heavy, ugly atmosphere that is also cheap - the quality of the wood and its lamination on the tables is waxy.
I've been a few times out of convenience, as I live in the area and it's always empty - the French toast is very big and sweet. The coffee is terribly over-roasted. The waiters are uninformed. Service is slow and unprofessional. The menu is trashwave - unsophisticated takes on sophisticated dishes, for those who like their food at least in part either deeply fried or entirely sugar, served almost warm. I felt it merited a solid 3 stars(for mediocre food and bad atmosphere) until my last visit, where the waitstaff or the waitstaff and kitchen in cahoots delivered to my analysis a new low.
The last time I will have ever been there, I asked if the tacos had any vegetable oil in them. The waiter went to the kitchen, "to ask the chiefs", and returned with an answer - "no."
I received my tacos (bland, meatball of some kind, very oily) and took a bite. To my surprise, the meatballs in them were deep fried - I was concerned that a restaurant would be deep-frying only with vegetable oils, because the cost of fruit oils is prohibitive and animal oils(fats like butter, lard) require much higher temperature to melt and create dangers in the kitchen, as well as smoke.
I asked the waiter to check with the kitchen what exactly they were fried in. She returned and supplied another, contradictory answer - "corn oil."
The waiters are obviously ignorant, but it seems that if this waiter actually communicated my query to the kitchen, then the cooks are also ignorant. One or both parts of the system make it unsettling to consider being served here if you have any kind of desire to be informed about what you are eating.
I'll never be back. The entire quality of this place is in-your-face cheapness. It's in the components of the foods, it's in the furniture, and it's in the waitstaff.
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