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| - Very disappointed with Lolita's Happy Hour. Some co-workers and I had been looking for a fun, central place to do Happy Hour and settled on checking out Lolita's, based on (you guessed it) their advertised Happy Hour from 4-8pm.
What they don't tell you is that Happy Hour ONLY consists of $5 well drinks, $5 house margaritas and miniature appetizers. (Seriously, the Happy Hour tacos (five to a plate) are TINY, about the size of a thumb.) Also, Happy Hour is confined to the bar area; it doesn't even extend to the patio!
I understand that the place wouldn't necessarily discount the tequila drink menu. But they also don't discount the "specialty" drinks, i.e., the margaritas and martinis. Those drinks remain $10-12 each. Really???? REALLY?!?
House margaritas are usually bad news, so I went off the regular drink menu. I had one good margarita (something with pear and mint) and a TERRIBLE white sangria. It tasted like Alka-Seltzer. And there wasn't even any fruit in it. (Sad face.)
The service was ok -- they were busy on a Friday night but it took more than once to remind the waiter when we had ordered something. My Alka-Seltzer --err, I mean, white sangria -- took 30 minutes to come out.
In this economy, Lolita's would do well to take notes from the Blue Martini and think about discounting their specialty drinks and beer during Happy Hour. Because for the $28 spent (two drinks and one Corona), I could've had four drinks and a beer at BM's Happy Hour.
Sadly (and I say sadly because I wanted to like this place), I don't think I'll be back here again.
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