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Review by Sami

Rating: 1.00
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So right after buying my Time Out Cheap Eats guide, I set about marking the places I wanted to go to. I crave tex-mex on a regular basis and I've been finding it IMPOSSIBLE to get good tex-mex in London, so I was really quite pleased to find a tex-mex joint in North London which, according to my book, was really quite good.

WRONG.

Maybe I went on an off night, but I have a hard time believing that restaurants have "off nights." I grew up in 2 restaurants, one of them one of the best restaurants in my home city in Canada, and they didn't have off nights. A restaurant cannot afford to have off nights, end of.

Anyway - nachos and stuffed mushrooms for starters. Portions were small, mushrooms were boring, and the presentation of my nachos was terrible. A towering pile of cold corn chips with a smattering of melted cheese and giant spoons of salsa, sour cream, and guac tossed onto the plate. I love the dips, but not thrown on cold chips and not when the tower of chips is so high that the toppings aren't spread around enough so that each chip has a little bit of topping on it. I know it's picky, but that is not the way nachos should be served and I hate paying for something in a restaurant when I know I can do it so much better. One of the main arguments as to eating in a restaurant is to eat something you don't have the technical ability to execute!

Depressing, but I ploughed on and ordered chicken enchiladas. An enchilada should be made with a corn tortilla and baked with chile sauce on top, sometimes with cheese put on before putting the entire dish in the oven. My enchilada was a cold flour wrap, with lukewarm chicken, and drowning in salsa that tasted like it came out of a jar and had just come out of the fridge. In all honesty, the chicken wraps that Marks & Spencer does was better than this!! Everything was just so very, very wrong.

Please don't go here. Save your money and try to do tex-mex at home, because it's not worth it here. Apparently there is a Mexican restaurant supplier that makes meals on Fridays in the Victoria area and is supposed to be very good - if anyone has any info, please pass it on!]]> Wed, 09 May 2007 19:00:06 +0000 /review/uk/london/restaurant/1r91n7u/exquisito/1i82c8999372532 Sami 51.561035085336 -0.10002104767318