Mestizo Mexican Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is totally delicious from Starters to Mains to Dessert."
• "The pastel de Elote and the tres leches cake were unreal."
• "The guacamole is a must in my opinion, it is so fresh and delicious I felt like I’ve never eaten proper guacamole before."
• "The Cochinita Pibil and Tacos Al Pastor were both incredibly flavoursome."
• "The food was also very tasty, fresh and authentic."
• "Food was delish and their empanadas reminded me of the ones my grandma would cook."
• "The food: the food was very tasty however portion size was quite small especially for the tacos."

Cons:

• "This is NOT Mexican food. This is barely food."
• "The food was cold and bland."
• "The food is extremely tasteless, you can barely taste the salt and pepper."
• "Nothing had any flavor. The beef in the tacos seemed like it wasn't even cooked with salt and pepper."
• "However, the mains were bland, and just really nasty and the taco meat was very chewy."
• "I’m sorry to anyone who thinks this authentic, but as a Mexican this was embarrassing to our cuisine and culture…"
• "Not sure if we ordered badly but all three dishes were really bland and lacked flavour."

Service

Pros:

• "The whole team were super accommodating at every step."
• "The staff were friendly and attentive and the food came quickly and was so fresh."
• "The service is great, they were very attentive going above and beyond."
• "Service was so quick and our waiters were very kind."
• "Everyone thought the food was delicious, the service was excellent, and the whole vibes were great."
• "The staff were very helpful and attentive, bringing us more tortillas when needed."
• "The waiters were super nice and careful, and helped us pick the right food!"

Cons:

• "The service was so strange as well. There was no organization."
• "Service wise, we were ignored most of the time and when we finally got someone over they were very short and rude."
• "Service was also terrible."
• "Service was a little questionable and hard to get, but did get a table quite quick."
• "We were pressured by the staff (mainly the manager) to order, to finish the food, basically to leave."
• "The staff was fighting around us and the manager shouting at the staff literally next to our table."
• "Unbelievably rude staff."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Value: Excellent for London. I ate enough for 1.75 people (including two drinks) and the total came to about 30gbp."
• "A wonderful deal with an amazing range of food and non alcoholic beverages included in the very reasonable price."
• "The price is so reasonable it'd be worth it."
• "The drinks were delicious and everything was reasonably priced!"
• "£16 each for this very generously portioned sharing platter was a good deal."
• "Food is delicious, plentiful, and reasonably priced."
• "The-all-you-can eat brunch on Sundays offers great value for money."

Cons:

• "12.5% service charge was a shock and unexpected."
• "We paid £105 for a shared menu when it's a shared plates of guacamole and few tortillas chips."
• "Our £99 bill was reduced to £87, but still value for money was very poor."
• "We paid £72 for 2 people, it was a joke, we didn't even finish the food it was that bad."
• "£5 for hot sauces... These should be free."
• "We payed £66 for 2 people, which was not worth it at all."
• "And the price was a 'little' bit steep for the overall quality of the food."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The atmosphere is buzzing."
• "First visit and really enjoyed it. There was a vibrant atmosphere."
• "Lovely place to eat! Has a nice welcoming vibe to the place."
• "The atmosphere was warm and joyful and the food was excellent."
• "Amazing experience with amazing people."
• "It had a brilliant atmosphere and the food was also well priced."
• "The vibe was great, so was the service."

Cons:

• "Couldn’t wait to leave the place."
• "If you're really lucky, you'll get seated in the soul sapping room downstairs with no atmosphere where you will get ignored by the 4 members of staff chatting around the bar."
• "Being stuck at a dark table by the filthy stairs to the downstairs toilets, left us feeling deeply unsatisfied."
• "Because you have to stand up to take the food and the place is not that big it felt very chaotic when you tried to go back to your table."
• "The only small improvement was that the air conditioning was on quite strong and facing directly onto the centre of the restaurant, giving quite a chill breeze throughout - we had to put our coats on!"
• "The atmosphere was decent."
• "The place was packed so it's obviously popular. By the end of the meal I couldn't work out why."