Gallo y Toro — Restaurant in Jalisco

It was our last night in town and we ordered the following dishes: the elote, birria tacos, birria ramen, shrimp poboy style sandwich, and birria sandwich. Every single dish tasted bland, flavorless, and overcooked. The shrimp was chewy and hard. The birria lacked flavor but had an abundance of chewiness with every bite. Everything tasted like it had previously been frozen, or cooked straight from a can or a jar.

While we were eating, at exactly 7 PM the employees started hurriedly lifting up all the tables and chairs. Some of the employees gave us dirty looks as the clock hit 7:05 PM. During this rush, we were trying to finish our food as quickly as possible. One of the employees went as far as to cough as dramatically as possible while glaring in our direction- picture someone pretending to hack up half a lung.

At 7:08 PM we exited the restaurant as quickly as we could. The presentation of the food was beautiful, but every single dish we ate lacked flavor and freshness. Very disappointing considering this was our last meal in Guadalajara. We had way better food at a hole in the wall place earlier on our trip.

My boyfriend threw up 20 minutes after we finished our meal here. As we finished eating his stomach started rumbling and...

The sitting 🪑 is a little disorganized and they take a while, other than that the food is good. I recommend the zarandeado shrimp and fish. I gave this place a second chance. It’s the same it takes a while to get a seat, one you finally get seated they take forever to take your order, they forget your drinks and had to ask twice (again), when the food finally arrived they were missing utensils and had to ask two waiters. After this long process I had to wait for the bill and that was another headache. The food is still good but you have to be very patient...

Alta expectativa, pero una realidad muy diferente.

Como primer punto son los largos tiempos de espera tanto para que te asignen una mesa, como para recibir tus platillos.

Si bien la decisión de esperar afuera es de uno mismo, la hostess debería indicarte el tiempo real (supuestos 20 min vs 1hr 30min), pero en fin, opté por esperar debido a los buenos comentarios.

Bebidas: el preparado con mezcal tiene un sabor razonable. El que no tiene alcohol dejó mucho que desear. Tristemente la bebida es 80% hielo, por lo que bastan 3 sorbos para terminar con ella. La espera fue de 20 min.

Tacos: Esquite con tuétanos y quesadilla de chapulines. Tiempo de espera 45 min, no me imagino lo complicado de una quesadilla y colocarle una porción de chapulines. En sabor el taco de esquites era muy pobre. El de chapulines, la realidad fue bueno a secas.

Raspadas: La birria era buena, el chicharrón no tanto. La “tortilla” era en extremo delgada, y excesivamente grasosa, como si no hubiera descansado/escurrido antes de servirla. Tiempo de espera: 1hr 10min.

Si bien el precio podría decirse que es acorde a la zona, es bajo comparado con la mayoría de lugares de la zona. E hecho es que son simples garnachas te hacen apreciar aún mas las fondas reales del barrio, donde por 1/3 del precio obtienes un producto obscenamente delicioso.

Este lugar , no es el caso. Es simplemente una fonda hipster, con el que un extranjero se llevará un buen sabor de boca. Pero para todo hay un dicho: “El que no conoce a Dios…”

Bastante hype el que tiene este lugar, pero si lo puedes evitar, no hay nada espectacular de lo que te...