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| - Wife and I had dinner here tonight. Let's break this down a few ways.
FOOD:
Food was good. We ordered salsa tasting and taquitos to start. I had carne asada and al pastor tacos, she had Del Mar and a carnitas queso style taco.
Salsa tasting was excellent, 4 salsas offered and 3 of them were on point. Fourth salsa, the red, was too hot for our liking and we didn't eat it after the first taste. This could have been called out, but we'll cover that in the service portion. That being said spicy is a matter of taste and can be impacted by a lot of things from batch to batch, so you may not have the same experience.
Taquitos were well done as well, Chipotle crema was the right sauce, could use more. Chicken filling was good for chicken.
Tacos followed a similar theme; we liked them, they were tasty, and well put together. They just weren't "awesome". I'm not sure what intangibles push food over the line, but these were missing something. They didn't have "It".
We didn't care for the queso style taco it, it was dry and too much cheese if not eaten immediately. We would recommend a pass on that.
All this being, long-windily said, we are planning a return visit to try more menu items. Guac and Elote seem of particular interest.
SERVICE:
We sat at the bar and were not impressed at the service. The bartenders take the seats at the bar and pour for the restaurant, so they are busy, but we got much better service from the second bartender who would do a table touch from time to time than our actual server.
When the salsa tasting was dropped the correct move is to explain each flavor, at the very least warn of the hot 4th option. This was missed, she just dropped and ran. We had a menu with us and know how to read, so it wasn't the biggest deal ever, but it would have been the appropriate thing to do.
My wife ordered a drink and found it to be far too tangy, I did as well, and she didn't touch it. To be fair we did not raise an issue, but top quality service would have noticed the untouched product and asked questions and replaced the product to make the best experience possible.
Am I nitpicking? I'll entertain that possibility, but if I'm deciding between 15-20% or more for a tip, it's the little details that make the difference.
OVERALL:
It was....good. Service was passable, checking off all the must haves without being any sort of above or beyond.
The tacos were...good. My wife found them too messy to put down so she ate faster than she would have wanted. The menu seemed a little basic, I would have like to have the chance to be a bit more adventurous. No pork belly tacos??
We will be back, to try more items, but aside from chips and salsa we won't repeat any of the dishes.
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