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| - Oh how I wanted to love this place...we did not. I would have given it 1 star based on the food but I gave it an additional star because our waitress wasn't awful. She did appear to have pleasant personality. Overall the service was just generally SLOW. This surprised me since they could have sold us several more drinks in the time we wasted sitting around if anyone had ever bothered to so much as pass by our table...
We ordered 2 different cocktails, the guacamole, chips & salsa, meatballs, jalapeƱo peppers, shrimp a la diabla, betabel (think beet salad) and elote.
Pros:
the guacamole was fresh and flavorful. We both enjoyed the elote flavor, it was not overly saturated with ingredients so it had a good balance. The peppers were big and cooked so that they retained much of their consistency. For those nervous about too much spice, they would be just fine eating these. The salsa had some heat and the chips-to-dips ratio was good for us.
Cons:
ugh, where to start! Well, everything was barely room temp when it arrived at our table except the salad, which was warm enough that it was starting to wilt. The lamb meatballs were over cooked, dry and lacked any flavor. Perhaps the most disappointing of all were the shrimp. Not only was it nearly cold, but they tasted irony and were served atop these hard pieces of bread that had at some point been toasted or baked in excess oil and were nearly hard as a rock. To top it all off, the menu says the shrimp is prepared with chile de arbol, which I hoped would have provided some kind of spice, but this dish was totally void of that. Lastly, despite the elote tasting good it was over cooked and chewy.
I would not return to this restaurant with so many other amazing options in town, and I would even go so far as to recommend others just skip this place altogether.
* after writing and then submitting my review, I went and read several of the older reviews about this place and noticed that those who had issues seemed to have had nearly the same complaints as I've listed. Hmmm....not a good sign.
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