I love Mexican food, but this place missed the mark for a number of reasons . Both the service and food bummed me out. At least if one is satisfactory I make an exception to give a place another shot but not here.
Let me preface that I work in the restaurant industry and both my boyfriend and I used to live in large American urban centres that boasted a ton of Mexican restaurants which we frequented. According to how our waitress spoke to us we were pretty much assumed to be Mexican cuisine charlatans that belonged at Taco Bell.
I give a star to to the decor and very friendly hostess who was working her second day. Here were my issues though:
-$6 for a really small. single shelled taco. I hate to sound pretentious but tacos should have two shells so they can be consumed without falling apart! It also makes the meal more substantial if you're just dining on a couple tacos. I've never experienced single shelled tacos outside of Toronto, it's not right.
- Our waitress was super holier than thou and assumed we had never dined on Mexican food before which is really far off. My boyfriend ordered a steak quasadilla which was so flimsy and soggy it was falling apart so he asked for a fork and knife. Our waitress retorted "ohhhh, well it's actually finger food, but I guess I can grab you that". While giving total stink eye. What's with the attitude? If the dish wasn't mushy we wouldn't need a set. This was about the third time she did this, previously it was when we were asking about how things were prepared.
Anyways, we left, $60 later still hungry and jonsing for $2.50 loaded tacos in Chicago without snooty service.
I really want to a find an awesome Mexican restaurant in Toronto, but the search continues.