Crater Rooftop Bar — Restaurant in Baños de Agua Santa

I didn’t feel welcome. After my partner and I got seated with menu cards and the information of a closed kitchen (reasonable, we arrived pretty late), we started looking through the beers. Unfortunately when we wanted to order, beers were not an option either so we spend this whole time choosing something that was not available (still having at least 6 different draft beers on the menu). We stayed and went for simple cocktails such as Bourbon Old Fashioned and a Negroni. First the Old Fashioned arrived and from the first look I knew it wasn’t good. Very watery, the tumbler glass was full of crushed ice and a maraschino cherry as garnish, tasted worse than it looked. I had to wait for my drink good extra 10 minutes and no one insured me about its arrival. Honestly I thought they forgot. After my Negroni arrived and was decent no one came to double check if everything was okey, we asked about the Old Fashioned and they only said that they had one big cube left. I was feeling uncomfortable and left after...

Great atmosphere and great drinks.

But only 1 person in the kitchen, so he didn't have proper time to do food. Food was more than 2 hours late, served 1 at a time - and they never communicated that the food was going to be late. It took 45 minutes to get a coca cola for one of the guys in our party, while the bartending staff was taking selfies and having fun with each other.

They didn't have half the food on the menu, and when we had to go without getting the last dishes, we asked for a discount and accused us of trying to scam them.

I can recommend it only for drinks, preferably smaller parties.

I would not get food here, especially not as a bigger party on a wednesday (we...

This was our favorite rooftop in Banos (the other one we went to was Azotea 740, which we also enjoyed). Compared to Azotea, Crater's staff was less professional, but that didn't bother us as they were still great and very friendly.

What we LOVED about Crater was the atmosphere and views from the rooftop. We didn't realize it while we were at Azotea, but the reason we enjoyed the views so much more from Crater was because it's open air instead of enclosed in glass. A truly idyllic spot to enjoy the sunset or really any...