La Hacienda — Restaurant in St. Helier

I ordered a delivery that took over an hour. The nachos weren't very tasty, had almost no cheese, and the topping was soaked with water and cold. If we had put the beans on top of the nachos, it would have made them soggy, and the mushroom quesadillas were bland.

I worked in a restaurant in Mexico for a short time. This is how I was shown how to do it.

Drain black beans and corn.

In a mixing bowl, put black beans, red onion, chili, corn, and cherry tomatoes. Drizzle olive oil, add a pinch of salt and black pepper, and toss together. Lightly fry off or oven bake and then place in a tin foil container with a cardboard lid (not a plastic container).

In a separate bowl, mash avocado, add lime juice, and season with salt and pepper to make a quick guacamole. Then, place in a tin foil container.

The corn chips should be baked for about 10min with a mix of cheddar and mozzarella sprinkled on top (Monterey Jack is good also).

When it comes out of the oven sprinkle fresh coriander over the top.

For the quesadillas, heat olive oil in a pan.

Add mushrooms, garlic, red onion, smoked paprika, salt, and black pepper.

Sauté for about 5 min, or until the mushrooms are golden brown and the onions are soft.

In a bowl, add mashed avocado and lime juice. Season with salt and black pepper.

Spread the avocado mix on the tortilla and then evenly spread the mushroom mix.

Cook until golden brown.

I hope...

Over-promised, under-delivered.

This was nearly a great experience. We saw the menu outside and saw several labelled vegan options, this brought us in. Unfortunately, the one that included vegan cheese was unavailable... I understand that this happens sometimes, but we were told that there had been no vegan cheese for the last week and the staff had looked in the health food shops and there was none available. Strange, then, when we found 14 types of vegan cheese in the health food shop only 2 minutes walk away, and 10 types in the local Alliance Tesco.

Anyway, we ordered a different vegan item. It arrived with dairy sour cream. When I queried this, it was removed with an apology but not replaced with anything else. So, the vegan option is the vegetarian option but with 20% removed, for the same price. (That local health food shop also stocked vegan sour cream.) I did not expect this from a restaurant that has gone to the trouble of making a special "vegan amigos" section.

The food we had was tasty but the experience...

what an amazing place the food was stunning not overly spicy and very tasty and beautifully presented the atmosphere in the place inside and out was lovely the view out the first floor over the harbour and surrounding areas was lovely but I can only leave a 3 star review because the service was terrible the waitresses I think there were 3 who served us one lady was absolutely amazing vibrant and chatty putting effort into pronouncing the dishes as she was trying to sort out who's meal belonged to who but the other two ladies were a real let down very quiet not at all warm or friendly very very much in the wrong jobs and industry really let the place down tje barman was brilliant though and one other issue was the stairs were very poorly lit and as someone with a visual disability it made it very tricky and dangerous to go up and down them but I will definitely be back for the food and honestly one of the best menus I have seen in a long time it was a genuine struggle to...