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My husband and I use this word frequently between us to describe something that we either can't quite grasp the concept of, or as a euphemism for "this is quite possibly the worst thing we've ever experienced". In this case, I think that the use of the word may come to mean both when it comes to Mad Mex.
We had high hopes for this place after reading the Yelp reviews. Unfortunately, the experience started off on the wrong foot almost immediately - we walked in and were kept waiting for nearly ten minutes while the hostess did - well, I don't know what she was doing. My husband later said that she was checking for tables, but seeing that the place was half-empty when we walked in, that's kind of hard for me to believe.
To the staff's credit, several people did stop and ask us if we were being helped. But, still.
We were led to a table and were about to sit down when one of the staff was like, "No, don't sit down. It's not clean." And... yeah, no, it wasn't clean. Spilled drink everywhere. Not earth-shattering. But, still....
Finally we're settled in and the server comes up and takes our orders. She asks us if we want to keep the menus over dinner and I said, sure, we may want something else. Thing is, she asks us this several times over the course of the night. Did she forget she'd asked the question or something? I just found that really odd.
I ordered a Thai Curry burrito, and my husband ordered a Mad Mex Quesadilla plate. Maybe these were just the wrong things to order, I don't know - but in my case, the Thai ingredients just did NOT fit into the scheme of things. Peanuts, pineapple and bean sprouts wrapped into a tortilla? Uh... somehow the taste of this should have been a LOT better, and it sounded a whole hell of a lot better than it actually was. The sour cream and diced tomatoes that came alongside was just a bizarre addition to what I already considered a bizarre dish. And the slaw? Ye Gods, that was just an abomination. I took one bite of that and left the rest behind, and if I leave any type of cole slaw behind, you KNOW it's bad.
My husband's dish was lacking cheese. And I mean, it was a SERIOUS lack of cheese. More veggies than anything else, which is fine, but a good quesadilla has cheese in it, folks. He did like his food a LOT better than I did mine, though.
Another service misstep - I wasn't asked what kind of filling I wanted in my dish (even though the menu states that there's a choice). The server came back and asked me almost timidly if chicken was okay - it leads me to believe that the food was already made with chicken in it and she was hoping (or praying) that I wouldn't choose something else. Luckily for her... I like chicken.
We didn't need those menus after all, because we beat feet out of there. I knew I wasn't going to want anything else. I tipped way more than I should have, to be honest, but the quality of the food isn't the server's fault.
I will say that the food choices are... well, interesting. There are a LOT of vegetarian and vegan options, which I guess for some is a plus - points for the fact that neither dish was overly greasy or even heavy on the stomach, which can be a problem with a lot of Mexican food. I went in knowing that this wasn't going to be authentic, and I never expected it - but it really shouldn't be THIS "health-conscious", and that's the feeling I got when I came in here.
We don't live in the area, so it's highly doubtful that we'll be back, but if we did live here, we most likely wouldn't recommend this place.
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