Sorstis Restaurante — Restaurant in Baja California Sur

It was the second time I have eaten there. I will not be back. The first time, a year ago was fine. This time I was joined by a friend. Both of us have had careers in hotels and restaurants in the US, Switzerland and Italy. The service was manipulative and obnoxious, the food just OK and the prices much higher than justified by the quality provided.

These things that stuck out: The waiter made stupid gestures and expressions that may have meant to be charming in a petulant sort of way, but came off as disrespectful.

The wine list was over-priced. And they were out of many things. After they said they did not have the first two wines I selected, they insisted I follow another staff member to the wine room, located in a small private dining room, which was occupied by diners at the time. I was forced to squeeze behind their chairs while they ate to get to the wine room door that could barely open due to the tight quarters, where I was presented with the most expensive of their wines, most costing 3x - 4x more than the ones I had tried to order sitting comfortably at our table. No price list was provided and so I was expected/encouraged to select blindly while my friend sat alone.

When it was time to pay I used a card and in Mexico you are given the option to manually select a gratuity percentage from the handheld device. I noticed that the obnoxious waiter had scrolled down to the bottom of the screen so the options for 5% or 10% were no longer visible, only the option for 15% or more.

There is no excuse for greedy and contemptuous service like this....

We went here this past Sunday for "brunch" as we've never done (we have been several times for dinners) We had reservations we arrived 15 mins early and we were promptly shown to a nice table The restaurant was not totally full probably 65% occupied on the way to be seated we could see the buffet tables lined with chaffing dishes and platters of cold food selections. Our waiter asked for our drink order we choose coffee to start we asked what the lo-down was for the buffet he said just take a plate and help yourself well turned out later the brunch includes Mimosas which would have been welcomed earlier had we been told Another strange thing was that there wasn't any selections that contained eggs or any meat options other than mediocre 🥓 bacon the fish was very good but it was deep fried the hot entire that contained nice sized prawns and rubbery mussels had nice flavor but the lack of freshness of mussels were disappointing both the hot and cold shrimp dishes as noted previously were seasoned well but neither were devained nor shells removed so that left the (sh'! track)(vein) behind something you don't usually see in a Top Notch restaurant. The price...

The establishment is an enclosed garden/courtyard that looks into their kitchen. They start with a basket of 3 assortment of the freshest, softest bread with a herbed butter. It was impossible to not ruin your appetite on these delish bread samples. We ordered the carpaccio (sea bass) to start which was served with some warmed tortilla chips. The fish was fresh and tasted great with the vinaigrette sauce. For our mains, we ordered the short ribs in drunken sauce - it was a generous portion of tender, fall off the bone meat. The sauce complimented well with the side of roasted vegetables and seasoned potatoes. We also ordered the portobello lobster. The creamy sauce was delicious but the lobster chunks on top of the mushroom was slightly over cooked. They offer the dessert selection on a display platter. You are able to feast with your eyes before ordering and it was a genius way to sell it as we wanted to try one of everything thing but settled on the brownie mousse that came with a coffee ice cream and some berries. It was very rich and not overly sweet and had a molten caramel in the center. Overall, the service and food...