Fiesta Mexicana Restaurant — Restaurant in Dublin

As a birthday celebration for a friend myself and a few pals booked the hungry Mexican for 7pm last night after seeing some tik tok recommendations.

Being a Saturday night it was quite busy - as to be expected all the same. Honestly the place was cute and a good buzz all around.

Once we settled in we were ready to order our drinks for probably 15 minutes before someone got to us but honestly we didn’t mind luckily enough we’re all really sound and a good laugh so there was plenty to occupy us thirsty gyals.

Finally drinks and food ordered we were BUZZIN right but an hour later and still nothing :( so we’re a little like hmmmm come on guys I’ve had a singular bowl of cornflakes today in anticipation for some spicy burritos and sizzling fajitas what’s the story?? I’m getting hangryyy. Hungry Mexican indeed.

The birthday girl decides to politely ask can we at least get our drinks which arrive probably 3 minutes after. We’re willing to overlook because as I said previously we are all fairly sound.

Our food arrived soon after right so here’s where things go a little pear shaped :/ (there’s nothing really wrong with the shape of pears though is there ?). My pal ordered a pork burrito I remember because she said pork like 5 times when giving her order she is METICULOUS as she was herself previously a waitress. I also remember because I don’t really like pork and I thought it was a poor choice. Despite this upon the burrito’s arrival it’s CHICKEN. Birthday girl tells the waitress she ordered pork and the waitress honestly just tells her she ordered chicken. I’m sorry but she only turned 24 so she’s a far cry from dementia thank god touch wood.

So that was a bit odd but we moved on because we just wanted to have a good time. The food was delish I must say but anything worth redeemable was demolished in the final minutes of ze dinner.

My pal Hannah slipped the waiters a cheeky Calvin the Caterpillar cake and some candles before we arrived for a nice little surprise at the end of the dinner right! This is standard practice at all restaurants surely it’s a universally recognised procedure, surely a toddler would have some grasp of it even??

Not the hungry Mexican. There’s an anticipatory atmosphere, I look to Hannah who begins singing happy birthday to our sweet loved one the birthday girl. I turn to my right and scope the waitress approaching. There’s something in her hands. It’s a box!! And another little box!! It’s the cake!! Still in the box!! And the candles!! Still in the box!!

Honestly it was hilarious like I don’t expect them to spoon feed the thing to her but a bit of the old taking the cake out of the box wouldn’t have gone astray?

We got rid of the service charge from the bill like none of that carry on WISE UP lads and we skedaddled our little tushies out of there asap to enjoy the rest of our night. We didn’t even complain really we just explained to the manager the service was fairly below average and DELETED the charge off the bill. But honestly they didn’t care. Hahaha I don’t know like I’m not going to hold a grudge but it was...

I wish I could give this place less then 1 star, Me and my girlfriend went into this restaurant expecting a belly full of beautiful taco’s and what we got left me quite disappointed.

I’ll start from the start, We entered and enjoyed the decor however upon further examination our seats looked like something from an old Dublin bus with strange tables that just don’t fit the bill.

There was exposed wires on the cable tray and a badly bent copper pipe on full display which should’ve been a big red flag. We received the menus and they looked like something a child could replicate on Microsoft word, very confusing layout in my opinion with a lot of clutter.

You know what these quirks weren’t even throwing us off from ordering so when I seen the “Chipotle wings” (these will be important later) on the starter menu I thought deadly we’ll munch on these while we wait on our pork tacos.

After waiting about 20 - 25 minutes I was confused why there was no chicken wings already in sight and then we wore just handed our tacos smothered in what must have been “Chipotle sauce” and practically no toppings with the middle section of both plates decorated in cilantro and purple cabbage.

I began to eat the food dismayed at the thought he’d charge for the wings we never received and oh my god was the taste absolutely rancid with not a hint of Mexican flavour with a texture twist of completely fatty disgusting pieces of pork with mediocre pieces of pork, The taco shell was a soggy mess after I requested a corn tortilla however this must of fell on empty ears.

After eating the sorry excuses for tacos I got up to pay and was only charged for the two portions and our drinks which was nice however I seen chipotle on the receipt and brought it up how we’d never received any “Chipotle Wings” that was followed up by a strange and awkward interaction between the male and female servers, this included a strange exchange of words between them two and just made me want to leave quicker.

Charged me 30 euro which was far too much however I would never make a fuss in person as I’m sure the cooks and servers are rushed off their feet but this place seriously needs to...

Hands down winner of the worst service ever award! one of the worst experiences ever! At first when we entered the restaurant and asked if they had a table for 4 they looked around the place with an expression like “oh no, even more customers...” then, while there was no table free except one reserved table, they nodded for some reason. I thought they nodded to point out a table or something so I started looking around and asked if he meant that we should take the reserved table since that was the only one free at that moment. The guy said “No! That one is reserved” and then he nodded again. The girl at the counter she completely ignored us so we looked a bit confused since we had no clue what was going on, leave, stay, take the table, not take the table.... very strange and long moment.... Then the waiter started walking and we followed him. We went down the nastiest stairs ever and in the basement he turned on some bright lights and the place had some tables too but was also half full with stacked boxes and other stuff. Clearly the space was more a storage space than restaurant and it was freezing cold, clearly they were not planning on having customers there. Usually at this point we would have left already but we were super hungry so we wanted to look at the menu first and while we were looking at the starters, the waiter already started to rush us, he talked about how we had to order quickly and also immediately the mains because otherwise it would take very long before we would get our food because it was so busy. What?! That’s when we left. Besides, the place looked SO ugly! They tried to give it some Mexican style but ended up as a poor attempt at it. And I know because I’m...