Mayan Pub — Restaurant in Mérida

We came to this place for drinks and snacks on a Friday night. The place had customers but was not full. It had a nice garden where we took a place.

We ordered a couple of drinks: hibiscus water, several beers and a cocktail. The drinks were fine and arrived shortly. Later we ordered French fries with chorizo and this one got stuck in the kitchen forever. Everyone else around us got their food including the waiter who was serving us. I think it took at least 30 minutes of waiting. The waitress was not helpful - no update or excuse. When we finally got our order we were surprized - it was really small (although tasty), we were wondering what took so long to cook it. Also the waiter didn’t bring us forks so we were all oily eating with hands 🙌. The bill was around 300+ pesos. The waiter dared to ask for the tip after all the mess :D and we tipped - obviously we got a bit drunk ;)

Overall the atmosphere in this place is positive. The garden is nicely decorated with lights. The music is played through speakers. On that night a live band was giving a rock concert which was cool.

All in all we had a great time here except the delay...

Am giving 2 stars because the music was good and their lousy customer service, we arrived early when there was barely but no body welcomed us in . After taking our order, they took forever to bring the food. We felt kind of racial profiled because other people came in after us but we saw them being given there orders really quick and we wondered why because if the food was taking so long to get ready why don't you bring us our beers , we had to rend the waiters to bring our order in a period of two hours both bears Agua frescas and the Wings which were brought to us half cooked with blood still in them and the lady had the audacity of asking me if I want to tip her , I was like are you for real , tip you guys for what service. In a nutshell if you black , you will get extremely poor service here so...

The place itself is OK. But I remember one nasty incident that happened in this place. Electricity has disappeared and all place went into darkness. People were illuminating only with their phones. Then staff decided to do the unthinkable - they have closed the metal gates inside that people at the tables wouldn't leave without paying. I kept thinking guy would they do the same in all emergencies? What about in case of fire? Hard to recommend a place that puts people's lives at risk. It happened few years ago. It might be that things had...