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| - I am just going to put it out there that I currently work at a Mexican tacos and tequila restaurant. It's in a different city, so no competitiveness here, but I do feel like I compare every Mexican restaurant I go to now to the one that I work. That might be why my rating for El Local Loco is so low compared to others.
Place: For what it is, the restaurant is big and spacious with very nice ambiance in terms of lighting, music, and decor. I also really appreciated how they have online reservations as an option via OpenTable. They also had a pico de gallo offer going on where it was free if you checked in on Yelp. I love it when restaurants utilize their social media presence! It is such a big avenue for potential customers. The hostess and server we had were very nice. However, this is where the raving ends for me with El Local... it was a short-lived, shallow romance.
Drinks and Apps: I ordered the Mexicana as my drink of choice. It was very good, just tart enough to prevent it from tasting like juice. However, for $12 it was an incredibly small cocktail. This is not a huge problem for me, as I am extremely "light-weight", but I can see how this could upset many people. I had the pico de gallo and the Mexican corn next. The pico de gallo was good...but it was also free. If I had had to pay for it, I would not have been satisfied; it lacked flavour. The corn was good, no complaints.
Food: Tacos were next, and with them came a slew of problems. I got the crispy zucchini and the chicken. They were okay, no complaints but very basic. There was nothing interesting about these tacos I could have made them at home, to be honest. I did really enjoy the hot sauce they have that comes in a glass skull though. It really made the tacos better. I also preferred the zucchini tacos to the chicken which was a pleasant surprise. The friend I came to eat with got the lobster taco sans avocado due to an allergy. When he bit into his taco he realized there was guac in it... He told me to leave it and that he had brought allergy medication with him but I was too upset, I did not want him to go through discomfort for hours just because there had been a mistake. I told the waiter we had asked for no avocado and he said that's guac... guac was not listed on the menu for this taco. The lobster taco said avocado and we said no avocado, I had assumed avocado = guac. I let the server know about the allergy and he quickly apologized and took it back to the kitchen. He brought back another lobster taco... this taco was full of corn! My friend was allergic to corn too but had not bothered to tell the waiter since corn was not listed in the lobster taco AND was not in the original. It was like the chef substituted the avocado with whatever he pleased, which was extremely unprofessional. My friend and I are not very outspoken people. My friend insisted that he could flick off the corn and I was too annoyed to speak up again. We just paid for our food and left after that.
Main complaint here would be that the menu and food are not consistent. I would recommend the servers asking about allergies so our avocado - guac fiasco doesn't happen again. Cute place but probably not worth the trip back for me.
Recommend: Mexican corn, crispy zucchini taco (use the skull sauce)
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