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| - I've wanted to try this place for months. This place is nothing but mediocre. It's all hype.
The space/decor is by far the best part of the place. It is a grand room with a lot of attention paid to the details. Love the tiles and the light fixtures. The service was good - fast, knowledgeable and pleasant.
The drinks were good. We got a pitcher of the blackberry margarita and it was tasty. Other drinks sampled: one made with cafe patron (a coffee tequila) and some drink with tequila and jager, which tasted like root beer. Kudos to the drink options and execution.
My main reason for being there the other night was the food (obv), and the food was blah. The guacamole was runny, not spicy (we were offered a choice of mild or spicy, we chose spicy) and $15! It's laughable.
We sampled a number of things:
Corn: ridiculously small portion for $9. It was just OK. Again, I felt like I was being punked with the portions, relative to the price. This dish included queso fresco on top of the corn and I'm not exaggerating when I say that the piece of queso was the size of 1/8 of an M&M. lol
Pork belly tacos - meh. truly. I was seriously underwhelmed by this.
Gringo taco, which was really a quesadilla: I don't understand how they can get away with the portions. I had 2/4 pieces, and I think I only got one piece of pineapple and it was the size of a pencil eraser. WTF.
Also - what's with the overuse of flour tortillas? It made everything so dry, especially b/c they rip you off on the filling.
Ceviche - I didn't try this b/c I don't eat fish/seafood, but my companions had a sampler. They seemed to enjoy it but it was maybe 6 bites ($30).
Short rib - good. nothing special. cactus salad was barely there (see a theme here?) - 3 chunks of cactus. whoo-hoo.
Tortilla soup - this was a good dish. Probably the only one I enjoyed. And I only ordered it at the end b/c I was still hungry.
Corn cake with guava sorbet - it was an ugly mess on the plate. Again, nothing to say here but overpriced and underwhelming.
This place overall was a huge disappointment. The food is basically terrible, and what's worse is what they are charging for it. Tourist trap, most definitely. I would maybe make a return visit for drinks, but I wouldn't eat here again. If you want good taco - playa cabana (for example) is way better. In fact, I much prefer the hard tacos from chipotle compared to what I ate at el catrin.
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