BEWARE 12/10 FOOD POISONING ALERT
We are visiting Sydney on our honeymoon. My husband was born in Mexico so we were excited to try this restaurant. Long story short, service was awful; food was okay; and it gave me diarrhea and vomiting within hours.
SERVICE: We arrived around 5pm. We asked for a table for two. The young man who greeted us was rude, like he was annoyed we were there. The place was empty at this time except about four tables. He barks, "I can give you a table but you have to be done by 6:30p." Ok, rather rude way to say you're booked starting at 6:30. 1 1/2 hours seemed like plenty of time to eat, but the service was SO SLOW that if we didn't get finished by then it would've been their fault and not ours. There were a dozen or so employees who passed us without greeting us at all for about 15 minutes. They were socializing in the back. Finally, we asked a guy who looked like a manager type when someone would take care of us. He took our initial order. We were essentially ignored the whole time despite the fact they were not crowded at all when we arrived. We had to flag someone down every time we needed something. If my husband wouldn't have been so excited to try Mexican food, I would have left the place before ordering due to the lack of service.
FOOD: The chicken taco was okay, but the sauce had a barbeque flavor to me. Husband said it was similar spices to a certain region in Mexico. The pico was good. They do not give you enough chips. Like seriously you get 8 or 10 chips. They come on this flat plate and a couple fell to the floor leaving us with even less chips. We also tried this other chicken with a pineapple salsa & quinoa. The salsa was okay, but the chicken had no seasoning or flavor and quinoa was barely noticeable. Just a few specs under the chicken. I didn't care for the chorizo, the consistency of the tiny pieces was gross. If the service would have been better, we might have tried everything on the menu but realized it wasn't worth it.
FOOD POISONING: Fast forward a few hours, I did not eat anything else other than food from here and all of a sudden abdominal cramps and nausea followed by explosive diarrhea and vomiting at the same time. Yes, I'm certain it's food poisoning from here; I'm traveling with a doctor, my husband. He's starting to have cramps now as well, his stomach is a lot stronger than mine but it's probably his turn for the toilet soon. read more