Ro R.
Yelp
Came here because this is another restaurant that my friend recommended.
I want know if this was recommended based of their scenery or the food itself? Because I don't believe it was the latter.
When we first came down, no one was at the front desk. Stood there for 10 minutes and nothing.
Finally the bartender came out from the bar to seat us and finally spotted the host who was busy chatting it up with the customers. I get you have to be personable and etc, but not if you're the only person in the FOH. There should be at least 2 people in the FOH, but if you have one person, be sure to cut the small talk and be back to seat your other guests.
We sat outside and nice view, but not breathtaking.
Got the following items:
Don Javier |
El Tequileno Reposado Tequila, salted cola, verjus, angostura bitters
I want to say this is the first place that actually made me a proper cocktail here in the land where they're not known for cocktails. I don't drink beer and I don't like to drink wine because it makes me sleepy and I want someone to actually make me a drink rather than just opening it. This drink deserves 5 stars and standing ovation for the bartender who actually knows how to make cocktails.
Rock oysters |
Michelada, guajillo oil - these oysters were super briny and putting the sauces didn't help cut the taste. I ended up squeezing more lime and that helped tremendously.
Queso Fundido - Melted cheeses, WA lobster, sweetcorn esquites, salsa locajete, flour tortilla |
This was okay, it didn't blow me away even with the lobster meat.
Skirt steak, pickled nopales, queso fresco, salsa arbol (GF) |
Okay steak was overdone, super dry and tasteless.
Fried chicken, pickles, kale slaw, chipotle tomatillo salsa |
Chicken wasn't dry so that's good, but where's the flavour?
After that, there was a super long wait, about 20 minutes before we got the below items. I was about to drop dead on the table because I was super tired and this dinner was longer than expected due to the lateness of the food and not to mention the lateness on seating us.
"Chorizo y papas" potato gnocchi, chorizo ragù, pico di gallo, brown butter crema |
Okay, didn't care for their version of gnocci - it literally resembled our side dish that A decided to order. It didn't even look like a gnocchi. I said to A, why did you get a potato gnocchi and a side of sweet potato? Didn't even taste like a gnocchi - basically just eating a regular potato.
Sweet Potato, pomegranate, chile arbol miso, lemon myrtle, sesame
This reminded me of something I had in Asia, which a good thing - nostalgic in way, but I was like I got two potato dish.
I would put this place to go for cocktails but not for food.