I didn’t have a great experience that first and last time. Food poisoning and all. And, as I said at the time, I hate to condemn a place on one incident like that, but it seemed, at least to me, at the time, that it was a lack of attention to food safety rather than a one-off moment. But, hey, it’s been 9 years, and who knows, I haven’t heard of mass numbers of people having had the same problem, so, we’ll give it a try.

There weren’t many people in the place, maybe 8-10, and with three staff members, a waitress, a bartender, and a manager, you’d think they could keep up. But the waitress kept disappearing off to the far end of the restaurant, and neither of the other two made any move to assist. Turned out, they have an entire patio outside in the plaza, and she was also attending to another 20 people out there. In fact, by the time that things turned a little busier, she was attending to 18 tables by herself. Neither of the other two made even the slightest move to help. Needless to say, things took awhile – a solid 15 minutes to place an order, another 15 to get drinks, and 25 after that before food was delivered.

I hadn’t looked back at my previous review before going. So, less variety on the plate than there was the first time, in terms of sides, and about the same quantity – maybe slight more. All of it okay, none of it all that interesting. Hot sauce never did arrive. We had to go look for salt and pepper ourselves. I’m not blaming the waitress, she was doing the best she could, but geez, come on manager, stop hanging around in front of your computer, or chatting with visiting friends, and give a hand at some customer service. Even send the bartender out to help, that might have been good, she wasn’t really doing anything other than occasionally getting a bottle of water or soda out of the refrigerator. And, for 300 pesos, this plate, which was claimed to be shareable for two, was probably 2/3 of the amount of food we got at Cuba Bella, for the same price. And not remotely in the same category of quality. I’ll leave this one as a pass.