Jon M.
Yelp
This review is for the restaurant, not the hotel.
My gosh. This place was utterly amazing. Who would've thought that an awesome place like this could be found in downtown Tijuana?
We walked up to the front, and we were asked if we wanted to sit inside or outside. I am so thankful that we said inside. Sit inside, folks! Sit inside! We walked inside, and it was like a 1930's steakhouse! There were two little old ladies, dressed impeccably, sitting at the corner of the gorgeous, long, wooden bar, sipping martinis. The place oozed panache and I thought I'd just died and gone to heaven.
The menus are in Spanish or English. We all ordered a cocktail, and my $4.00 mojito was way better than the $13.50 mojito that I had at Papas and Beer the night before.
They brought out bread with some green and black olive based spread that was delicious. We ordered the octopus appetizer, and I thought that I was going to be eating garlic flavored rubber bands. NOPE! That octopus was tender and delicious. I could've ordered five of those for dinner and been happy. My gosh that was good.
We obviously had to try the Caesar Salad. The dressing is made table side, with olive oil, mayo, egg yolk, minced up anchovies, and other things tossed in. Holy cow it was so good. I used some of the bread to soak up the dressing that was on my plate after devouring the salad.
Two of us got the Beef Wellington, and I decided to try the Salmon Wellington. Their Beef Wellington was fantastic, and my Salmon Wellington was really good - but I think I'll stick with the beef next time. All three dishes came with some roasted fingerling potatoes and perfectly cooked green beans.
We were all stuffed from dinner, so we got two desserts instead of three. We had the creme brule' and some kind of cheese and fruit on crackers. The brule' was really good, but I hated the cheese thing. I thought it was awful, but the one who ordered it said that it was supposed to taste that way, and that it was delicious. To each their own!
We will, without question, be back again. I have no problem driving from Los Angeles to have dinner here, but I don't want to wait in the lines to get back to the US for hours, so I won't be coming here for dinner all that often. I will, however, absolutely come back for dinner every single time that I'm in Tijuana.
The only downside, and I'm not going to dock any stars for this, is that the entire staff seemed unhappy to be there. Maybe it's a cultural thing? Maybe they were trying to impart a sense of old school high end dining? I don't know, but it seemed that no one wanted to be working, there.
Nonetheless, we shall return!!!