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| - I've never had a disappointing meal here, although some of my experiences were better than others. Most recently, I came in on a Saturday night for dinner with a large group of friends. My friend L handled making a reservation ahead of time, and mentioned that they were very easy to work with. We ended up having a whole dining area to ourselves (it was a party of 25-30), and our own bar. I would have liked if the staff could have made it more clear that we were a private party as early in the night (initially we had 5-6 of us there), we kept having random people try to sit with us. And every single one of them ignored us when we politely tried to tell them that we were a private party - the bartender had to tell most of them more than once.
We showed up early, and let the staff know if they were not ready for us, we could wait in the main area. The (rather good looking) bartender let us know that it was okay with him, if we were okay that he wasnt' fully set up yet. We were only about 30 min early, but for the next hour plus, half of the drinks he made, he had to go to the main bar. I'm not sure what that was about. We had our friends coming in waves, so hopefully we didn't overwhelm him. There wasn't quite enough room for us at the tables that they had set up, so several of us ended up sitting at the bar (which was perfectly fine with us, but i know some of our friends were a little disappointed). A few staff occasionally came over to help out Hot Bartender, but he mostly handled us on his own.
There were a few snafus with checks, but overall everyone seemed happy. The food was great, although several people had to repeatedly ask for their appetizers (including guacamole which honestly should not have taken about an hour to arrive). We probably had better service sharing one bartender for 30 people than i have on most other occasions (a recent dining out included me drinking my margarita, my water, and then going to get my drinks from the bar because I literally couldn't get my server's attention for almost an hour).
The margaritas are awesome, although my friend was disappointed that they did not have frozen ones. The blood orange and pepper ones were my favorite. And definitely go for the mole sauce!
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