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| - Oh god, I SO wanted to love Babaloos. I used to live 90 miles from Cuba, where the food is as close to authentic as you can get off the island. I try to only patronize small, locally owned restaurants. This deserved to be a match made in heaven, but what it was sad and dull. I won't beat the spindly, sickly, dry and very small horse, but I should give some brief explanation for my rating.
Had the appetizer sampler, pork empanada, camerones en salsa verde, ropa vieja, and the cuban sandwich. Every dish was either totally and utterly bland, or salted past being able to taste anything else. Even the black beans and rice were tasteless and as dry as dirt. Think Cuban.day in the nursing home cafeteria.
The restaurant is lovely, the service and people were great. I really hope the kitchen can get it figured out. I'll try again, just based on the prior reviews. But obviously people were encouraged at the "private" event to Yelp their opinions, so I take those with a grain of, well, salt. I'm not sure where the bar of "beautifully executed dishes" was set, but it's likely not in the same hemisphere as Cuba.
Surely there are people in this Valley who know what lies at the soul of Cuban food. They just aren't working anywhere near Babaloos.
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