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Today, started great. The day was packed with socializing under sunny skies, a music festival, and happy smiling friends in tow. We felt festive so why not hit a festive Mexican restaurant? We've never been to Salt & Pepper before but they have an outdoor patio area. Unfortunately, you have to take the good with the bad at this time of year (eg. loud street noise and harassment from wasps).
The Good - Food tasted great. No question this was the best part of this visit to S&P. We ordered four different meals and all were well prepared, nicely plated, full of flavour, and not over-done. I read some negative reviews about the food but there was nothing to complain about here. We all agreed the food was delicious. I couldn't stop eating until my plate was clean, which says a lot about how good it tasted. The location being in Inglewood made for a nice walk before and after we ate.
The NOT Bad - The server was nice, concerned about our satisfaction, gave attention to detail (as he could afford time for), and you could tell he was trying his best to meet the needs of a number of customers (probably too many at once). That said, it was hard to track him down when we needed something because he was constantly running around. The atmosphere should really be part of "the Good" but they were playing odd music like Scottish pipe music - not Mexican music - in a stylized Mexican restaurant.
The Bad - The wasps were harassing everyone in the patio area. People actually got up and moved inside it was so bad. They really need to hire a bee person to setup wasp traps or locate the wasp nest nearby and eradicate it. This almost ruined my time as I was constantly fighting them off.
The Ugly - Long wait for food and drinks. I read about the wait times here on the way over but sometimes that is just a one-time thing so we went anyway. Unfortunately, it was true. We waited an hour for our food to be served after we ordered it. My co-horts were not impressed or as patient as I was. The kitchen makes tasty food but they do need to work some efficiencies into their back-end processes.
So if you don't mind a long wait - there are no complaints about the food. With a few improvements to the delivery and the music they would see more stars.
We will probably give S&P another try at some point as we liked the atmosphere, the location, and as noted above - the food was good.
All the best S&P,
Shane K.
p.s. Please deal with the wasps!
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