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| - I really wanted to like this place. It's really close to home and in an easy location, and looked really clean. I guess it's so clean because there were no customers. The server was super nice (hence 2 stars instead of 1).
The chips with sauce were good. SAUCE, not salsa. It was a thick sauce squirted on the chips with parmesan sprinkled on. This also contributes to the 2 stars instead of 1.
Now, I need to preface this by saying I am not a picky eater at all and there are extremely few foods I can't enjoy. Seriously, I'm the kid who ate the other kids' peas because they didn't like them and we couldn't leave the table until all our plates were clean. I cannot remember the last time I went to a restaurant where I really could not enjoy the food. When I travel to other countries with friends and they're whining they don't like the food, I'm gobbling it up with a smile. I like all kinds of foods!
But man. I just could not enjoy the food here. It was really not good. Way too salty, and everything just had a weird taste.
I had the pescado al mojo de ajo. (Grilled fish with garlic) My fish portion was very small and super salty. Way too salty. The salad was sad. The rice had a weird coconut taste. The beans - what looked sort of like refried beans hand-smushed into an awkward oblong shape on my plate - had a weird taste I cannot even explain. They were even placed kind of away from everything else on my plate, so they looked even more weird and lonely. They were definitely the worst thing on the plate, so it was almost like the other foods had shunned the poor weird beanstuff. I couldn't eat the beanstuff or the rice. I tried a few bites, couldn't do it. I did eat the super-salty fish and sad salad because I was hungry and could tolerate those.
It also took a long time to get the food. We were there an hour+ and we were the only customers.
Other reviews said the food is slow "but worth it" so we didn't have a problem waiting. But, well, the food was not worth the wait.
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