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| - We were anxious to try this restaurant based upon the positive reviews we've read here. And perhaps we just hit them on a totally "off" night, but, frankly, we were both terribly disappointed with the entire experience. To begin, after being seated at the admittedly very nice outdoor patio and being given chips and salsa by the busboy, we sat for almost 15 minutes without attention. Finally, I motioned to a passing waitress who offered to take our drink orders even though she stressed that we weren't in her "section." An immediate and rather heated discussion ensued between her and another waitress about their policy of "sections vs. alternating," and whose responsibility it was to serve us. Drinks finally ordered on a very warm night! When delivered, we ordered our dinners and specified we wanted guacamole brought as an appetizer. Minutes passed, then more, then even more, and our dinners arrived...alas, no guacamole yet. Again, I had to flag down the waitress who was rushing about and remind her about our guacamole. She apologized and left to get it...finally dropping it unceremoniously a few minutes later as she rushed past our table. OK...so far not so good. Hopefully the food would overcome the inauspicious experience. Alas...not to be. My husband ordered soft beef tacos and specifically requested pinto beans rather than refried beans. He got refried beans rather than pinto beans and virtually tasteless beef tacos. I ordered the Grilled Chipotle Shrimp. What I got was a plate of gloppy, thick, overwhelming sauce with a few shrimp drowning in it. I tried unsuccessfully to scrape the sauce off a couple of shrimp, and finally gave up and ate only the remaining salsa, chips, and late arriving guacamole. As for the rice we both got on our dinner plates? Well, suffice it to say that it was inedible! So dry, and hardened that one forkful was all either of us were able to endure. I have never written a poor review for restaurants as I know that any establishment can have a bad night, but the combination of inattention, poor service, inappropriate arguments between wait staff over who was supposed to be serving us, food undelivered until after flagging down the waitress, and truly poorly prepared (inedible, actually) dinners, we simply will not return.
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