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| - We'd been wanting to try this place for a while, and given improving reviews, thought now was the time. Well, as sometimes happens with places catering primarily to the tourists, there was some good and some bad.
First the good. Our service was outstanding, waitress was very attentive and did her best to make our experience better. The rum drinks were also excellently executed, flavorful and with ample but not overpowering rum. The yucca cheese rolls were great, as was the short rib flatbread.
Here's the "OK". Shrimp ceviche was good, about what you'd expect, but we needed to ask for chips to eat it on. The "very popular" red snapper dish was not a whole snapper as one review indicated, but a rather small fillet that while prepared well lacked in overall flavor and was a bit pricy for what you got.
Now the bad. The slaw that accompanied the snapper was so salty I couldn't eat it. The house special Toro salad was iceburg lettuce (really?), that was overdressed with a flavorless dressing, and also looked and tasted as if it had been made and dressed hours before leaving the lettuce limp and soggy. Unfortunately the dessert they comped us to make up for the salad was also a miss. It was billed as a custard, but came and was so soupy I would have never identified it as custard. My husband hit it when he labeled it "sweetened condensed milk straight from the can".
So as I said hit and miss. I might go back for drinks and apps, but not for dinner.
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