Restaurant Cafe Bar la Maria — Restaurant in Chiapas

Gave this place a try as I was in the area and it had numerous good reviews.

Mistake.

What can you say about a place that can't even prepare a simple meal of grilled chicken breast, steamed veggies, rice and potatoes?

Chicken, tough, overcooked, veggies undercooked, microwaved rice and fried potatoes smothered in salt. Yikes!

(Maybe extra salty to cover up recycled/old food. Old trick of the trade.)

Maybe they saw a gringo and smirked: "He'll eat anything." or "What can he do about it?". Then again, the cook's incompetence could extend to Mexican and/or Guatemalan customers as well.

Still gave the waiter a tip as he was getting barked at by the owner to "Fetch me a Coke Zero, boy! Now!!!" Even though the owner was no more than 15 feet away from the cooler.

Simple truth: If an owner doesn't respect his staff, he's not going to respect his customers or the food he serves them either.

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