Aesthetically speaking, this place is super neat and according to a lot of reviews and my Google search, it is also considered "cheap." As a long time traveler of 10mos and having lived in Chile for the last 4mos, I definitely wouldn't consider it cheap. The cheapest thing on the menu was a veggie soup for 4.500 clp (~$7USD). Over double the price I'm used to paying.

However, I had been walking around with my backpack the last hour in the heat. So I was hungry, thirsty, I needed to charge my phone and I had walked out of the way to get to this place, so I decided to treat myself to the 8.000clp vegetarian plate. Came with a cauliflower soup (eh), salad (yum) and a lukewarm carrot pureé with 3 falafels. As I made it to my last falafel, I crunched down on something hard and unfamiliar.

I was a little freaked out bc what I had removed from my mouth looked really similar to glass. The waiter reassured me that it was just a piece of plastic from un pote in the kitchen that apparently had broken and gotten rolled into my ball of chickpeas, fried, and served to a guest. He offered me another, but honestly was afraid of finding more surprises so I declined.

After returning from the kitchen, the server offered me a tea or a coffee on the house to apologize for the hard piece of broken plastic I had just about swallowed.

I've worked in a restaurant for over 8 yrs and that is by far the worse attempt I've seen someone make at recovering from a situation like this.

Maybe if I wasn't pinching pesos, I wouldn't have been so bothered by the situation, but nontheless, it happened.

P.S. Also not a great place to practice your Spanish. I asked two questions to two diff ppl (nothing to do with translation, literally only asking about accompaniments) and instead of responding they both decided I needed the English menu 😑 Other than feeling a little insulted about my Spanish (which I have a university degree in and have been using for years), the staff was really attentive and friendly. But would I return? Nah.

I've had better for less.