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| - Went here for a dinner, heard the view was amazing and it was definitely pretty good.
My girlfriend and I had a reservation and were seated promptly. It was a bit noisy, but oh well. We were quickly given some chips and our drinks and our food was done and at our table pretty quickly. My girlfriend had the raspberry margarita and we both thought it was excellent. For food, I got the "cry today, cry tomorrow" with chicken, which is supposed to be super spicy. My girlfriend got the coca-cola carnitas.
The quality of the food was only so-so. The chips were good, but some of them were stale. The bean dip was a bit watery though the salsa was good. My chicken was of a good quality but the sauce was awful. Yes, it's hot, about a 7/10 on my scale and I eat ghost pepper regularly. However the flavor was like they took some regular sauce you would find on a Mexican dish and added a bunch of dirt to it -- very dark and earthy. The taste reminded me of when I went to Bangkok Orchid (which I also wrote a review of) and asked for a super hot panang -- the flavor was ruined by whatever they put in it to make it very hot. It's definitely possible to have very spicy food without destroying the flavor! The beans were meh, the rice was OK, I asked for corn tortillas but got flour, and I asked for no lettuce on the plate and there was some. My girlfriend liked the carnitas and I did too at first but on sampling them again I was not as much of a fan.
Where things really failed were in the service department. Our server was Antonio and he was great at the start but after delivering our food he came back 1 minute later to see if everything was OK and then did not show up for another 30 -- after we had been done for 5 minutes or so, and after our water had been almost empty for a good 15 minutes. When he did show up he was actually just about to run by our table again and stopped himself. He asked if we needed more water and I asked for a box for left overs and the check. He said he'd get that. 10 minutes later he shows up again with a box but no water. Finally another 5 minutes pass and we get water and the check.
Even with a 15% off coupon, everything came to $45. Forget this place, go to Jalisco Cantina -- better food, prices, and service. It doesn't have the view but everything else is better.
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