El Charrúa Restaurante y Parrillada — Restaurant in Salta

This is my first review for any place ever which should give some indication as to how worked up I am. My partner (review in Spanish to follow) and me just had dinner there (April 18th) and the one thing I can say for sure is that the owner should consider his choice of Managers.

We arrived shortly after the restaurant opened for dinnertime at 7.30. While it is admittedly early by Argentinian standards that is no excuse for the hour that followed. Between 7.40 and 8.00 (with guests in the restaurant) the floors of the entire place were cleaned using rather distinctively smelling bleach, interrupted only by deliveries of bread and other relevant food items by people walking through the main part of the Restaurant. This was followed up by regular deliveries of fresh and taking away of used table linens, again squeezing through the rather closely put tables, which by this time (8 to 8.30) were starting to truly fill up. All of this was treated as normal by the staff, no explanation or excuses were given to the guests.

This overall created an environment which pushed us close to simply leaving several times - a pity in particular given that the food was good and plentiful, and that the individual service at the table by a waitress who deserves no blame at all was very good. The icing on the cake came when we paid the bill. We asked for the manager of the night and calmly raised those points. He proceeded to barely listen, roll his eyes, and offered a token 'dis culpa' which couldn't have been more condescending and insincere if he tried.

I understand that 7.30 is not a typical Argentinian dinner time. However, if you open a restaurant at those hours clearly catering to tourists then it needs to be ready to receive guests. You cannot prepare it for the night while people are being served, particularly if you charge prices which are at the upper end of what is common in the region. Moreover, you should at the very least have a person in charge (for the night) who gives off the veneer of sincerity when it comes to how to treat customers, even if he clearly...

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Too bad. I...