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| - What a reminder to not blindly rely on high Yelp ratings - Lola Rosa was an utter disappointment. We left regretting the money wasted, the calories wasted, and feeling icky about having eaten fried stuff that we didn't even enjoy.
Sunday afternoon, and the restaurant was filled mostly with families with astonishing numbers of children. Super noisy, but oh well.
The water tasted so heavily of chlorine, I doubt the restaurant has a water filter. When I refilled my boyfriend's glass from the water bottle I always carry along, I noticed a huge lipstick stain. My boyfriend said he had just been drinking from that side of the glass - gross! Note to bartender: spend less time slowly, slooowly filtering that precious Kombucha, and pay some attention to those menial tasks like washing glasses as well.
The food was one big disappointment. I had the Cajun Burger with smoked tomato relish and fried pickle. It comes with fries, which turned out a soggy, stale, lukewarm (at best) pile of the leftover bits at the bottom of a batch. The salad was a small handful of greens with a pinkish dressing that had no taste beyond being acidic. The burger itself was edible but utterly boring, the patty had zero crunch and it was a soft, tasteless mush that felt odd in my mouth and fell out of the bun in large chunks. My boyfriend had Lola's Poutine, which was a big pile of the old stale fries with a sauce that tasted heavily of cardamom and cumin - a heads up in the description would have been nice! The taste wasn't balanced, but overpowering. When the server came around to ask if everything was okay, we said no: the fries are soggy and old. She offered to check with the kitchen and came back with the statement "they said that is our style of fries". So the official statement is that Lola's fries are stale and lukewarm...
I'm all for simple comfort food done right, but our experience at Lola's screamed overall carelessness. Maybe it was that Sunday afternoon shift which nobody cares about, and from the loud cheering and hollering coming from the kitchen the crew was preoccupied watching the Olympics. We'll never find out, as most certainly we'll never set foot in the restaurant again and regretted ever trying it - waste of money and precious tummy real estate. ?We left in disbelief how far the gushing reviews and the reality of our visit were apart.
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