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| - So there have been some changes at this venue. Most of it I won't get into, because I am not a politics kind of guy. I like to focus on the experience, and go with that.
I rarely write negative reviews. My belief is that I simply may have been there on someones bad day. I have them, you have them, we all have them. Reviews on the internet can make such a large impact to a small business, I am always reluctant to go in that direction, and risk doing so in error.
This time is different however. I have been here twice recently. The food quality has changed for the worse, there has been drastic change in atmosphere, and a general decline in service. I can't leave my 5 star rating in place, as it is simply misleading now, based on the experiences I used to have at La MexiCanada.
The food has lost any of it's former vibrance. I have to use colour here because its the clearest way to describe the change. Its gone from looking at a beautiful colour image of a Mexican beach, with blue sky's and a deep dark gulf sea, to a black and white picture of a run down cantina. It's utterly like night and day. Across the board too. It's not like they changed one dish (I had tostadas and burrito) and missed the mark on one. All the plates I dug into here have simply gone the way of mediocrity.
The first night I went there they had "paint night". Not sure what painting has to do with Mexican food but there you are. I think the owners tried to take a different direction and might have gotten bit lost.
My old friend Noe was nowhere to be found. I figured out later he had left. Probably due to an argument over "paint night".
Service was adequate but staff were less amenable than on my previous visits. This might just be my perception, as I had such a great relationship with all the old staff, these new folks seem a little strange to me.
Overall its not the place I fell in love with.
It's not the same.
And I am not interested in what it has become.
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