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| - After looking up "The Worst Restaurants in Vegas", I found Lolita's. My friend also had a $50 gift certificate, which the person who gave it to him, must really have ill wishes towards him in life. Wow! I now understand why people dislike Lolita's so much! When entering the place, I thought the hostess (a nice sweet girl who seemed like she had already checked out of the place the first time they went under and probably laughed inside at about what we had yet to experience) looked decent and sane enough to trust that if it was really that bad, she wouldn't work there. The environment was much less than exciting and there was zero music playing. While being seated at the least desired table in the room (actually it was in the bar, not the dining area) I looked to my right and noticed the fleet of idiots with their laptops and cellular's out. I didn't realize that Lotia's doubled as a convention overflow hangout. Our waiter came up to grab our drink order, I was already not in the mood to have any booze in my system, thinking that I wanted to run out the doors rather than spend one more minute in that place. (Free or not!) It didn't take too long for my friend and I to realize that the owners and staff took this place as a complete joke. This was confirmed when, what looked like the owner, came somewhere out of the back very loud and completely unaware that he was rudely interrupting his guests dinners. The "owner looking" guy joined the rest of the group who were clearly working so hard on their laptops and conversations with future clients, beginning each conversation with, "Oh my God!" or "Like,,,sooo". What I was wondering the entire time we had come in was actually true, the group in the front of the restaurant were employees of the restaurant. Our server was nice, took our order, brought it out in a timely fashion and made sure our drinks were well taken care of. The salsa was hardly flavorful, and definitely not spicy. The guac was great. The steak burrito that my friend ordered looked like a burrito that one would order at Qudoba only nowhere as close to the quality of Qudoba and with less steak and the chili relleno, that I ordered was stuffed with multiple ingredients and had three different sauces poured over it. The rice and beans, chili rellenos, and salsa all had the same sweet, unflavored taste. It all tasted the same, not bad but not worth the price, not like Mexican food and certainly not contemporary. There is a phenomenal contemporary Mexican restaurant in Denver, CO and it's called Tamayo. (Located on 15th and Market, downtown). Perhaps Lolita's should take a lesson from this restaurant. The cuisine was confusing and there was zero atmosphere. The atmosphere was only the employees, owners and marketing team chatting to one another on how to make their "third chance" work. Jesus H. Christ! Do you think you, Mr. Owner man, you should really be running a restaurant considering you've already been given multiple chances at being successful? If you need to have a business meeting and have to do it in the restaurant, think twice and maybe try doing it out of the sight of your guests. You know, the ones who pay the bills... or I guess, in this case, they aren't paying the bills.
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