Marcus M.
Yelp
Terrible tacos (cold, dry, and salty), great guacamole, pretty good margaritas, even though it was not the double shot that I paid for. Servers were strange, with strange questions about my weekend vacation for Carnaval.
This is my first trip to Toronto, with my bestfriend and my native friend who loves this specific restaurant. After a 12 hour car ride from Maryland in the USA, I wanted to have tacos at my friend's favorite taco place. Upon arrival, we were greeted by a woman name Mel, who was accommodating us with a table. She stated she recognized my friend, who is a Toronto native, and greeted him as the "turn up guy"... my friend looked confused by the statement, but greeted her back. Her initial reaction to us wanting to sit outside was led with a direct redirection to the indoors due to our "group size". there is 3 of us. We obliged with her seating suggestion, and were promptly seated inside next to a couple.
Unfortunately we felt as if the server and bartender Mel were insinuating that our group of 3 were heavily intoxicated during our dinner and had plans to continue to drink after leaving the restaurant. As a non-native, the subtle queues were not apparent to me, but I did find the questions of what my weekend plans are, what I have in my trunk to drink, and where I was going after this place, extremely invasive. I told my friend I want to leave because of the line of questioning we were subjected to while eating, from multiple members of the staff. We asked the waiter for our check, he took about 10 minutes to return with the check. during that time, we were approached by Mel again, at the table. She asked what we were doing once we leave the restaurant. I stated that I am nearly 40 years old and I am tired from my long drive, so we're returning to our hotel to rest. She began to insist that we were going to drink at some other location, after all 3 of us repeated twice that we'd be returning to our hotel. It felt strange and disingenuous. I felt as if there was an interrogation being conducted, and I did not like the food enough to continue entertaining the moment. We paid, and removed ourselves from the establishment, even though I planned to have another drink while I ate my tacos.
Even though our waiter offered us doubles, the bartender stated she did not give us doubles because we have liquor in our trunk. I just drove across the US/CN border to enjoy Carnaval, not to be considered an alcoholic by a woman I just met, only to find out my friend barely knew her either.