Jackie F.
Yelp
Pro: Gorgeous location, Spanish influenced decor.
Con: Dinner service is messy from low staff, food quality decreased with restaurant is busy.
TL:DR - get the food together on a non busy night. When this place is packed, all hell breaks lose both front and back of the house.
Came here with family, totally party of 4. Here are our orders.
Apps -
- Croquetas, beef - yummy, will order again.
- Ensalada de sandita - outstanding, great balance.
- Champinones mushrooms - beautifully presented, perfectly sauced.
- Gambas al Ajillo, garlic shrimp - a be watery than most places, tons of garlic, a must for dipping bread to soak up the sauce.
- Tres Quesos - nothing special
- Causa Acevichada - needed more lemon
Main -
- Seafood and Chorizo Paella - ordered the chicken entree, waiter put it down as add chicken to the paella. paella was cooked at higher temp to rush the dish, end up with a moist rice mess where the bottom and side lacks the slight burn. Chicken was under cooked.
- Missing chicken dish.
Dessert -
- Passion Mousse Cake - dry, left over cake
- Dulce de Leche - moist, full of flavor
- Burnt orange cheesecake - cheesecake was not overpowered by the orange, bravo.
- Coconut Flan - half a coco (not ripe) with flan inside. flan was a delight.
The issue with this place is that it is grossly understaffed. The manager that primary worked as the host was just jamming people when the place was opened, she sit down 15 tables at once with not enough waiting staff to even take the ordered. Once the apps were served, chaos happened with miss orders, food brought to wrong table then redelivered (happened to our table and table next to us), and just service for drinks (table next to us got their melted sangria after their apps were brought to them). The horse and pony show of having a tomahawk steak and paella prepared at table side just completely cut all service down to a halt since Julian is the person that was able to performance the task at hand. When he is cutting and plating, the busing and runners are just running around like chickens without their heads. That is, if you get your food without the food visiting other confused patrons then migrate to your table. Food orders will be misplaced, food will be rushed cuz the manager likes to slam in the orders all at once from lack of seating control. Good luck getting anything refilled, ownership like to work the staff to the bones with understaffing.
i would definitely order food from here to go, but to eat in house is to burn up 2 hours of your time for no good reason.