La Charcu — Restaurant in Chiapas

➕ PRO: The food is ok, they specialize on sausages🌭 and meat but they have several vegetarian and vegan options. With humus they give also normal bread aside to mais tortillas. Much appreciated. Nice selection of non-alcoholic cocktails. The terrace is really nice, although the number of tables is limited (the higher terrace only has 3 stools) so maybe better if you book in advance (at least in the weekend). They have good live jazz/arabic music and good atmosphere. Service is polite.

➖ CONS: I ordered the green olives, that I love, but theirs are really really super acidic (not in a tasty way) from the water. So maybe avoid ordering them. Even tho there are only few tables, with 3 people serving them, take it easy because the service is a bit slow (take orders or bring simple things. Plus 10-15 minutes to take the money after giving the bill, plus other 10 minutes to bring the change back, although it was after everybody already got food and in a non busy moment) Also at times a bit confused service: no coordination on orders; when they finished wine cups they poured my wine in a normal glass (that is not a problem for me, I understand), but with the last wine they also poured in all the dust and crumbles from the bottle's cork (that should not be in the wine at all.. ; so I'm not sure if they know how to open wine bottles without breaking the cork 🤷).

I've not tried the meat specialities so I can't say about it. However overall a decent place to spend the evening and have drinks.

Another positive note, to counteract another hypocritical recent review from last week: I personally appreciate they let people smoke on the terrace side (in a typical San Cristóbal autonomous vibe), as many clients go only to places where they can smoke cigarettes, when drinking alcohol (so the restaurant would loose customers otherwise). This, regardless of stiff customers (tourists) that want to impose their "strict regulation" attitude without understanding how the system really works in San Cristóbal and in Chiapas independist areas. 😒 It's up to other customers to figure out if they bother somebody around eating, when smoking. And it's up to the disturbed customer to ask them to be kind and abstain for half hour. Pretending that the owner tells them is (imo) typical privileged self-elected-cop's cowardice and also implies to pretend being superior & above the owner itself: really impolite, arrogant and unconscious of the political context (like a typical "Post-colonialism Tourist"™️). Go study...

They made us really sick. We asked for water and guess they gave us tap water, sounds stupid but you assume that they'd use a filter or purification. Me and my fiance were sick for 3 days and had to go to a doctor. On our way out of town we bumped into two others that we met in the restaurant the same night, one of them had water and got sick, the other had ice and got sick but not as bad.

Food was ok. They didn't have a few dishes that we wanted. View over the town is unmatched for sunset, just don't drink the drinks...

La comida es rica, el lugar es lindo y tiene buena vista, sin embargo, el servicio deja mucho que desear, los meseros y meseras no son amables y muchas veces se olvidan de traerte lo que pediste, o les tienes que recordar varias veces... :/ También te lo cobran aunque no te lo hayan llevado ybal final te tienes que fijar muy bien en la cuenta para no pagar por lo que no consumiste. El servicio es LENTO.

Otra cosa que NO me gustó, es que permitan el consumo de tabaco en el lugar, uno llega con la ilusión de pasar un buen rato en un lugar que idealmente debe oler a comida y, al contrario, huele a humo de tabaco y otras hierbas... Le pedí al mesero que por favor les dijera que no se puede fumar en lugares cerrados o semi-cerrados y muy grosero me dijo "yo no les voy a decir nada, si quieres diles tú o le hablo al dueño para que les diga"... Okeyyy... El dueño del lugar llegó y este me trató muy amablemente y les pidió a las personas que por favor dejaran de fumar. Esto NO debería de pasar ya que actualmente hay una LEY NACIONAL que PROHIBE el consumo de tabaco en cualquier espacio PÚBLICO ya sea abierto o cerrado, sobre todo en los lugares donde se sirvan...