Caldera Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food is great. The combination of chillies really taste like what I have tasted in Yucatan few years ago."
• "Beautiful lamb, cooked to perfection."
• "Exceeded my expectations! Best Mexican I’ve had in London."
• "Food was very tasty, especially the tacos and the churros, which I recommend."
• "The prawn tostada was a standout, everything was authentic and delicious."
• "The food was so delicious and freshly prepared."
• "every single order from Caldera serves a rich, flavorful dish that sets a standard for authenticity of Mexican food in London."

Cons:

• "The beer selection was a bit limited."
• "Tacos were quite dry and lack of taste."
• "Soggy tasteless nachos, with puréed avo and a tiny bit of squirty cheese."
• "Very very mediocre burrito."
• "Enchiladas and burrito were one dimensional; mushy and flavourless."
• "The chicken burrito was completely dry and tasteless."
• "The food wasn’t treat special, small portions and left something more to be desired if I’m honest."

Service

Pros:

• "Visited on Taco Tuesdays with a friend. Delicious food, very generously priced and great service."
• "Lovely staff, kind and smiling."
• "Friendly, helpful staff."
• "Really nice waiting staff."
• "Great staff too, we came for my partner’s birthday yesterday and Ash was fantastic - attentive and nothing was too much trouble."
• "Staff couldn’t be more friendly and accommodating."
• "Wonderful restaurant and dining experience! Staff incredibly friendly."

Cons:

• "The service, by far, slow."
• "I ended up leaving and at this time on a Friday night have nowhere close by I can get into."
• "Can't really recommend, despite food being good...inexcusable to make people wait more than 30 mins for first drinks."
• "Made a reservation for tonight and the staff, though were polite, made several excuses for messing up my reservation and not having a table."
• "Staff were friendly but difficult to get hold of."
• "The service was a bit slow and it seemed the restaurant was understaffed."
• "Food was amazing but unfortunately service was really bad...we waited 10min for someone to tell us that is not an actual menu."

Ambience

Pros:

• "The Place is lovely, great atmosphere and music."
• "Also lovely decor and atmosphere."
• "It’s so nicely decorated and super clean."
• "Ambience lovely, service attentive and friendly."
• "Delicious tacos and beer on a terrace, what more could you ask!"
• "Great atmosphere and music."
• "Awesome ambiance, cool outside area and also really interesting artwork."

Cons:

• "Atmosphere was ok, though it got intensely noisy when a large table arrived."
• "A non stop over loud cheesy play list of generic Latino 'pop bangers'."
• "The music was pretty loud though, and it was very difficult to talk throughout our meal."
• "The music on our visit alone would stop me going back."

Value

Pros:

• "Visited on Taco Tuesdays with a friend. Delicious food, very generously priced and great service."
• "Pretty tasty food at reasonable prices for the area."
• "You get relatively good bang for your buck, compared to other restaurants in the area."
• "£90 for the two of us - came out feeling full and like it was worth the money for a nice date night."
• "Reasonable London prices but great tasting food."
• "The price is decent for three tacos."
• "Prices are good value, hope they keep these prices also after full launch!"

Cons:

• "Price is quite high for a very small portion."
• "Food was tasty but portions too small and really too expensive for what they were."
• "Was not very Mexican at all and completely overpriced."
• "Overall delicious and reasonably priced, other than maybe the one prawn per taco for the prawn tacos."
• "Paid £9 for cod tacos which were tiny - a thumb sized piece of fish with some cabbage and a quarter teaspoon or sauce."
• "Portions are small for the price, within the hour both of us had the symptoms of food poisoning."
• "To be honest I feel like I could get a better burrito from Tortilla (for half the price)."

Drinks

Pros:

• "The margaritas are fantastic: potent and yet subtle."
• "First we asked for some margaritas to get warm! which by the way make them great and I loved them!"
• "Great margaritas too."
• "Cocktails were delicious and so well made by the bar staff."
• "Loved the micheladas and cocktails."
• "The drinks selection was alright with a great offer on bottomless margaritas."
• "Drinks are really lovely too and the service was great."

Cons:

• "And what Mexican restaurant runs out of got sauce?"
• "Margaritas... Chili and passionfruit was bad."
• "But this Mexican restaurant charges £2 for a bit of hot sauce!!!"
• "They also didn't have any hot sauce which seems very strange for a Mexican restaurant."
• "Classic and strawberry were so so, and the strawberry came in a much smaller glass for some reason."