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| - We had reservations for Saturday night at this corner venue in old Montreal and I'm glad we planned ahead cause the restaurant was packed by 7:30. The restaurant itself, with its small open kitchen, is on two floors and is plainly decorated for a Mexican restaurant; dark chairs, dark wood tables, white walls with a nice tin ceiling. They have a few seats available outside by the busy sidewalk as well.
What impressed me most about this restaurant was the food. We had three different appetizers including the shrimp cocktail, octopus ceviche and the crab guacamole. Our mains included the pulled pork and fish tacos. The appetizers were all outstanding! Nicely seasoned, well presented and perfectly prepared. The tacos were okay but not wow: the fish tacos were better, the fish was crispy and the dressing was tangy, but found the pulled pork tacos too salty and saucy.
The service was a little slow to start as they took time to take our cocktail order but was great after that. Speaking of cocktails, you need to order the coco loco made with rum, coconut and pineapple; it was delicious!
Warning the venue is loud, like really loud, due to the blasting music which went up a notch closer to 8:30 with mostly dance hits from the 90's which wasn't what I expected from a Mexican restaurant priding itself on authentic experience.
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