I was really excited to try out Tropical since it was one of the newer Mexican restaurants on 17th avenue. Unfortunately it was quite the let down. I got there at 6pm with my family, there were 5 of us. There were about 8 staff on and not a single other table there when we arrived. I had a gift card and was told I couldn't use it on "specials" which to me was kind of ridiculous but I just ended up trying some other items, other than just the tacos. Their guacamole was ok. Maybe made from scratch maybe not. It was hard to tell. The waitress took over 20 minutes to bring our first drinks and then got all of our taco orders wrong. Again we were the only people there so it's not like she really had a reason to get these incorrectly, she also seemed to be writing our orders down as she took them so again pretty confusing. The dessert tasted like it came straight from a freezer, so all of my gift card ended up going towards food that was less than average and we had to pay for the tacos that were sub par by far in comparison to all the amazing Mexican restaurants on 17th alone let alone calgary. Although the food wasn't horrid, I definitely would not return as their are far too many other great options.