Sure wish I could give less than a star. I also wish I had read the reviews before going to this establishment. I am going to deconstruct the entire meal. If you are the owners of the restaurant take this as constructive criticism for the 50 dollars that was embezzled out of me today.
It was God awful from the moment I walked in. I came there based on a recommendation. I will strangle that person later, but for now I need to focus on this experience. It was not good. It was far from being like maybe they had an off day. It was cringe worthy from walking in to the time we left. First thing that caught my eye was walking in and seeing mozzarella sticks and potato skins on the specials board. I should have made an about-face right at that moment, but was willing to give it a chance. Actually, better yet the first sign was their website and looking for the menu. Click on lunch and dinner and nothing listed. Clicked on their catering menu and they had Mexican and Italian food offetings.
I will let that slide too for now. This establishment gave chips and salsa. I ordered a prickly pear Margherita and my girlfriend ordered a Pina colada. The chips were fine but the salsa was awful. It tasted like we'll based on past retorts by the owners of using fresh ingredients, they used fresh ketchup mixed in orange juice with chunks of yellow onion and tomatoes and added sugar to an already pungent salsa. My biggest question for the owners is, do you taste the creations that are made in back of the house? The salsa was made fresh but it stunk and your recipe for it stinks!
Now on to the drinks. This fine establishment looks well equipped with a good bar, by that I mean selection of beers, wine, and spirits. I just have some minor flaws that I noticed. When serving a frozen drink like a Pina colada don't use a cocktail stirring straw, the hole is too small to suck up ice chunks. The other thing was get a better blender like a vitamix for frozen drinks. You want consistency with everything including drinks. My Margarita was fine and not sure of the traditional use of the rim of the glass but hated the salt and would have preferred nothing or sugar but like I said I don't know what is customary so no real qualms there.
On to the main course. My girlfriend ordered seasoned chick quesadillas they looked okay and the chicken was dry. It was accompanied with Pico de Gallo, sour cream, and guacamole. The pico was sad no flavor. The guacamole was sadder, do you want to know why?
When you come to a place called cilantro you would like to think that some if not all of the parts would be centered around this wonderful herb that brings food alive and gives it flavor. This guacamole lacked soul, it lacked essence, and it certainly lacked cilantro. The namesake of the place was lacking in the salsa and the pico de gallo. This place should be called Lacking Cilantro...it would be more accurate of a name for this place.
Okay now on to my dish. It is the one dish I order any time I go to a Traditional Mexican restaurant. It is enchiladas con Pollo en mole, here it had poblanos added to the name. A mole sauce is described as having 20 some odd ingredients...chilis, cocoa, and other traditional ingredients that is reduced and made in to a thick sauce. I have even seen it paste like in consistency. This was chicken enchiladas in a mole soup. I was also expecting the cheese to be melted on top but was served with lettuce and cheese that was not melted. It was so far from what I remotely anticipated. There was also an issue with being too heavy handed with salt in much of the food I ate. Too much in the rice and beans. Most of my leftover food will have to be thrown out and I really hate to waste food even if it is poorly made.
I need one thing answered by the owners. Do you taste the food you make and put out to customers? It is a simple task, with a clean fork taste the rice...taste the beans, taste the chicken and the guacamole. Then ask yourself would you like eating it? In short I was thoroughly disappointed. I was so disappointed I needed to say this so other people do not fall victim to the mediocrity of the food your establishment puts out. I have lived in Fishkill for 4 months now, and today was the first and last time I will visit your establishment.
I will advise others Taco Bell and buying Tequila from Viscount Liquor store is a better solution. If you want a better place. Avacados on route 82 is far better and I will probably be faithful customer to them over cilantro any day! read more