My meal tonight was one of the few instances I have ever experiences where my food almost come back up while it was heading down. My wife and I rolled into Cozumel due to her overwhelming craving for Mexican food. I have come to terms with the fact that we will not find authentic Mexican cuisine in Cleveland but have had decent experiences at other restaurants in the area which I would at least consider edible. I have also been to the Cozumel in Independence and had a mediocre but not dreadful experience so I figured this would be similar.
Let me first tell you the only decent thing I have to say about my experience tonight: I like their salsa. It has just the right amount of heat and is quite tasty.
As far as the rest of it.... well, my wife and I decided we both wanted to get the Baha Tacos - a taco filled with a Cod filet, slaw, guac, and mango salsa. Sounds good, right? Barf. It was absolutely vomit-inducing. I literally heaved twice. First of all, the Cod is an odd choice for fish in a taco, but to be fair, I knew that's what was in it. The problem is that it was most certainly a frozen, already-prepared cheap filet in a very heavy deep fried breading. The slaw was essentially just cabbage drenched in mayo. The worst part was that the oil it was cooked in tasted rancid. I literally think the oil was bad. Both my wife and I couldn't finish it.
Although the waiter was fairly unfriendly through our whole meal, he did offer to get my wife something new since she had only taken one bite. Her replacement meal was edible (Chicken Fajita Quesadilla) but was as far from authentic Mexican as you can get and by that point our appetites had pretty much already been ruined.
It's a good thing that the staff wasn't nice because there is now absolutely no reason for me to trick myself into going back to give it another try. Run for the hills!