I’ve decided I now want to use this blog as a place to critique different businesses in the city, especially restaurants. If you’ve ever eaten dinner with me, you know that I am one of the pickiest eaters to ever make faces while pushing rejected veggies around on a plate. I don’t eat anything aquatic. I won’t eat cooked vegetables. I’ve never even eaten a hamburger, because of my neurotic aversion to hamburger buns (and yes, anything with sesame seeds).
That is my caveat. Take my reviews with a grain of salt…or a side of vegetables.
The place: Mama Mexico
The cuisine: Mexican
The price: Around $15 per person
First thoughts: No place with veal and duck on the menu can serve real Mexican food…
What I ordered: Enchiladas Suizas
High point: The mariachi singer who visited our table (and our table exclusively) and showered us with “bonitas.”
Low point: Blah, watery salsa. The hostess seated us and gave us water, then the waiter took our drink orders, but…no menus. We were there ten minutes before we got to figure out what we wanted. THE INAUTHENTIC ENCHILADAS WITH THEIR STRINGY CHICKEN, TOO MANY ONIONS, AND SOMETHING NOT QUITE RIGHT GREEN SAUCE.
As Chen and I paid the check and were getting up to leave, the hostess raced after us to ask if we liked our food. We said it was okay. She said it was customary to tip 20%, so we should tip two extra dollars since we liked our food. I was shocked at her audacity! Tipping is customary, not law. Who made her the Tip Police?! I had no extra dollar bills, but I wouldn’t have handed them over even if I did. Besides, she was a hostess - she told us where to sit and gave us water glasses. Chen gave her two extra dollars to appease her and avoid an argument, and later told me she agreed the hostess had a lot of nerve. Besides, a 10% tip is customary for breakfast and lunch.
The verdict: I like my Mexican food served by ex-convicts with lots of tattoos, in a restaurant with paper napkins, neon signs, and free refills. I like to tip what I want to tip. Most of all, I like generous portions of real Mexican or Tex-Mex food. Mama Mexico delivers none of this. I won’t be going back.
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I can’t BELIEVE you were actually advised/confronted on how to tip! That is really bad business!!! Good for you for sticking to your guns and not giving in to that greedy (and completely unprofessional) hostess.
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I read 2-3 articles, but the one about the Mexican Restaurant really made me read through. Too bad the hostess had the nerve to ask for tip if the food was good, I would have asked her. “ok so what is the cut to the cooks? I will give it to them directly” and not to lousy service.. haha j/k. I dont know how I would have reacted.
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