02-01-2012, 07:47 AM
I meant to post after we ate here but spaced it out until I saw the Mexican restaurant topic.
The good parts -- there was parking, and the decor is fun, especially liked the bar, and they made the restrooms cute and not standard issue. Menu had all sorts of things that looked good! I went with the prawn fajita style burrito, and the flavors were very tasty as Pam already noted. I think my friend had tacos, no special rave but they were eaten and quickly, no complaints.
They have a little play section for small children that we appreciated.
The bad part -- the loud music hit us from the parking lot, so much that even though we wanted to eat in, we decided it had to be take-out without question. Lucky for us it was a beautiful day and the gardens beckoned.
Sadly, we were in for a 20 minute wait in this infernal din of blaring taqueria music, which I hated beyond description and so did my companion. He has spent a month in Mexico along the coast going to many taqueria's, and said he never heard one where the music was that loud. We couldn't even hear when we were ordering or hear our order was up. I had a major headache by the time we left.
That said, there were people in there having fun.
As a side note, it detracted from the tasteful decor of the bathrooms that there was waste paper all over the floor and overflowing waste backet. They need to have someone go in there more often and keep it presentable.
Service note: I ordered a kid's combo, and the lady (owner?) poured the drink (soda) immediately without asking if I was ready for it. There is no way I was giving the kid that sugar without his food, so as a result, the soda was all warm and flat and ice melted by the time we got the food, plus I had to babysit it while waiting and tell kid why he couldn't have it yet. Most places like that have a self-service soda dispenser. Anyhow, they should ask when you want the drink poured; not everyone wants it right away.
Re the take-out, I would not get the fajita style vegetables in a burrito to go again as it didn't hold up for the 10-15 minutes needed. The tomatoes were really wet, enough so that the tortilla had partially dissolved into flour paste by the time I could start eating. Usually it's no problem to get a burrito to go.
I think I would go back for take-out, but they sure could use a system for paging or something so that non lovers of blaring Mexican music could wait outside for the food.
For those of you who have read "The Fan Man" by Kotzwinkle, think about the puerto rican music running joke. My friend is a big "fan" of that book, and he said next time he will go in wearing an industrial set of headphones to make the point. Then when he's ordering he can lift one earpiece and say WHAT? I can't HEAR YOU!
[8D]
The good parts -- there was parking, and the decor is fun, especially liked the bar, and they made the restrooms cute and not standard issue. Menu had all sorts of things that looked good! I went with the prawn fajita style burrito, and the flavors were very tasty as Pam already noted. I think my friend had tacos, no special rave but they were eaten and quickly, no complaints.
They have a little play section for small children that we appreciated.
The bad part -- the loud music hit us from the parking lot, so much that even though we wanted to eat in, we decided it had to be take-out without question. Lucky for us it was a beautiful day and the gardens beckoned.
Sadly, we were in for a 20 minute wait in this infernal din of blaring taqueria music, which I hated beyond description and so did my companion. He has spent a month in Mexico along the coast going to many taqueria's, and said he never heard one where the music was that loud. We couldn't even hear when we were ordering or hear our order was up. I had a major headache by the time we left.
That said, there were people in there having fun.
As a side note, it detracted from the tasteful decor of the bathrooms that there was waste paper all over the floor and overflowing waste backet. They need to have someone go in there more often and keep it presentable.
Service note: I ordered a kid's combo, and the lady (owner?) poured the drink (soda) immediately without asking if I was ready for it. There is no way I was giving the kid that sugar without his food, so as a result, the soda was all warm and flat and ice melted by the time we got the food, plus I had to babysit it while waiting and tell kid why he couldn't have it yet. Most places like that have a self-service soda dispenser. Anyhow, they should ask when you want the drink poured; not everyone wants it right away.
Re the take-out, I would not get the fajita style vegetables in a burrito to go again as it didn't hold up for the 10-15 minutes needed. The tomatoes were really wet, enough so that the tortilla had partially dissolved into flour paste by the time I could start eating. Usually it's no problem to get a burrito to go.
I think I would go back for take-out, but they sure could use a system for paging or something so that non lovers of blaring Mexican music could wait outside for the food.
For those of you who have read "The Fan Man" by Kotzwinkle, think about the puerto rican music running joke. My friend is a big "fan" of that book, and he said next time he will go in wearing an industrial set of headphones to make the point. Then when he's ordering he can lift one earpiece and say WHAT? I can't HEAR YOU!
[8D]