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| - I went to this place with high hopes, and being Arizona's Restaurant Week, I figured it was a great opportunity to try it out.
First of all, we got there with a group of 4 of us, and there was a 20 minute wait, which is fine, they were busy. We went to the bar, and the hostess reassured us she would come get us as soon as they had a table for us. 30 minutes passed, and no one had called us. The bartender actually is the one that was like, "you guys have been waiting for a long time, huh?", and he went to check w/ the hostess. Turns out, she had passed us for a table. That was annoying.
Anyways, we were finally moved to a table, the waiter came out, got our orders. We ordered to orders of queso fundido to start off, and some cocktails. The drinks came soon, but honestly, they were not very flavorful. My friend got a "michelada", which actually tasted like a bloody mary made w/ beer; it wasn't good. Finally, we received one order of the two queso fundidos. We all shared it since we saw the other one hadn't arrived. The 2nd order of queso fundido came way after we had already finished the first one.
After waiting for a while (which is fine, they were pretty busy), we got our tacos, we each tried 3 tacos each. The carne asada was bland. The chicken was all breading with no flavor. The pork belly was my "favorite". There were NO salsas w/ the tacos, which was very strange since tacos go hand in hand with a variety of salsa.
We finally got to dessert, we ordered tres leches cake, and churros. Jesus Christ, I was sad! The tres leches cake had a weird texture, it didn't feel soft and moist like tres leches usually feels, plus it was also bland, it didn't even taste sweet. Now, the churros...what a disappointment. They felt uncooked, and too bready. Very weird. The only good thing was the hot chocolate dipping sauce, it was like concentrated chocolate abuelita.
The place is pricey, we just got a good deal because of AZ's restaurant week, but I will most likely not be back. The place is lost in wanting to be "trendy", but they forgot about the flavors. Just go to La Santisima.
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