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| - The good, the bad and the ugly. Ok, here goes. So, I hear Lolita's is opening up and the chef comes from Border Grill, and it's in Town Square and it has creative cocktails and it's a lovely summer night.. what more do I need? My friend's birthday warranted an excuse to check it out.
The good: the food is seriously wonderful. The ceviche's are fresh, the Shrimp Ensalada was so tasty. Marinated grilled (ok a little too grilled) shrimp served with a salad of cucumber, tomato, avocado and grapefruit in a light citrus dressing. Amazing! The marinated chicken entree was served with sweet potatoes and rice (I don't get why so much starch). The moist chicken was grilled and the marinade left a sweet and tangy finish to the outside. The brownie thing served for dessert had a moist and chewy crumbly center, kind of like a lava cake too. The outside had the most delicious crispy texture that just thinking about it makes me salivate! My Pineapple Margharita when it finally arrived, was sweet and tangy with a real pineapple juice and fresh lime juice. The tequila they used was smooth and the whole cocktail was a pleasure.
Here is the bad: I called Lolita's and the phone rings and rings and rings and rings.... the lady who answered said she is not a person who can take reservations. "Call back and someone else will answer who can help you" she tells me. Ok, so I call back in about 10 minutes and it rings and rings and rings and rings and rings and then someone picks it up just to hang up. Ok, bad sign.
I call later in the day when I KNOW someone must be in the restaurant and am then able to make are reservation for 4 people the following evening.
Blunder number 2. We get there on time and it takes at LEAST 15 minutes to find us a table in a not crowded restaurant. Ok, so we go to the bar to try one of the 'handcrafted cocktails' advertised on the sign out front.
Blunder number 3. There is NO cocktail menu! Wha??? So I ask the waitress for a verbal listing and she hems and haws and says "Mojitos are good?". Ugh. We order a round of drinks and the hostess comes to seat us before they arrive.
Blunder number 4. We were seated for at least 10 minutes before our drinks arrived. The waitress, while cordial, Was not attentive and we waited too long to order anything. So of course we ordered everything at once because who knew when she would be back to take our entree orders. Just an FYI, I observed other tables waiting too long for service from other servers so I can't just blame it all on our waitress. Something was not working right.
Blunder number 5. When the drinks arrived my Pineapple Margharita was a salted traditional.. um. Wrong. Try again.
Blunder number 6. The ceviche sampler platter arrived and as the waitress was setting it down all the little martini cups they were served in dumped right onto the table. Honestly, you would have to be a circus performer to carry a tray in one hand and set down a heavy plate with 3 little martini cups full of a heavier than liquid substance without spilling anything. (The ceviche was so good though that we actually ate if right off the butcher paper covering the table) That wasn't the blunder. We ordered more but our entrees were finished and there was still no sign of the ceviche appetizer. So we had the item removed from the bill as a no show. That was the blunder.
Blunder number 7: my dining companion ordered the grilled chicken entree (I forget the name but will never forget how tasty the chicken was!). Since she didn't need all the carbs she asked for no sweet potatoes and double the grilled vegetable side. Well, along comes her entree with no vegetables and double the carbs. ??
Blunder number 8: While minor it still counts to me. My other companion ordered a Kir Royale cocktail from the bar while we were waiting for our table. The waitress needed him to repeat it 3 times probably because she never heard of it. It is a traditional classic cocktail made with Champagne, Creme de Cassis and a twist. It would have been an experienced bartender if the drink came to him appropriately made. Unfortunately, it wasn't..but it was close. He got champagne with chambord. A bit too sweet but he didn't complain.
Blunder number 9 and 10: Actually this was for another table who had items dropped twice at their table. Our poor server, it was definitely not her day.
Right now I really wouldn't suggest heading to Lolita's Cantina unless you are a very patient person with a lot of time to kill. Come visit when they work out the details regarding menu items, having an actual drink menu, training servers to be knowledgable of menu items, getting the flow going to keep service smooth and after they have an answering machine. I think Lolita's Cantina will survive. The place was already packed, they have great marketing going on and really and truly the food was almost worth all of those blunders.
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