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| - Fonda Lola has been one of my major summer disappointments. This winter I visited it as part of a group celebratory dinner and had such a fun and thrilling experience. I enthusiastically took my foodie friend along for a repeat on their quite nice summer patio. Alas, 2 stars is hard to give right now. The food was either terrible value or just terrible and the service wasn't much better...sorry!
The FOOD:
We started with the Candied JalapeƱo Bacon ($10). This was so good the first time I'd had, and was good this time as well, but were shocked to find that the serving size was two pieces of bacon cut in half. For this price, I could have purchased 2 packages of bacon!
We followed up with the Quesadillas with huitlacoche ($12). Basically one tortilla worth of cheese and muchroom...middling in quality. The huitlacoche was not quite the Mexican truffle advertised.
The real disaster came in the form of carne asada tacos ($18 or $22, I don't remember). This meat was tough! It's embarrassing when you can't actually separate the meat in a taco with your teeth and have to ask for a sharp knife. Even the sharp knife required a table wobbling attack. We eventually gave up and couldn't even finish it. The worst part, the staff (including one of the owners) just didn't care.
Meanwhile, the table next to me, which has just ordered the expensive Mexican fiesta is being badgered by the owner to order a cocktail. One of them was a non-drinker and the other didn't want to drink alone. No means no. It's not like they were trying to order some cheap appetizer and take a table..they had just ordered the most expensive thing they could.
In the end, we were shocked by the cost of the meal, the terrible value, and the low quality of the food. Somehow after spending $75 on two cocktails and food, we had to go out for dinner afterward.
Oh well, I had such high hopes for this place!
P.S. The basil mojitos can be very good, so that's one way I can end on a positive note.
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