El Ocho — Restaurant in Mexico City

It's a gimmicky place.. you don't get what is in the menu.

So I was not expecting much when I went to ocho but it was more than disappointing. I saw on their website some cool drinks and beverages so my good friend and I wanted to try them.

We went for breakfast. He ordered a torta de chilaquiles and I ordered the alpes suizos (pic attached), a latte, American coffee (black) and some drinks that are like smoothies with alcohol.

Our food was flavorless, the sauce of my chilaquiles appear to not had the right texture and the coffee was weak. I asked for some spicy sauce so I can add some flavor to my food, they took so long to bring it, that I actually had to stand up and asked (again) at the counter. They say sorry but still took long after that.

Then we ordered the drinks and Again they took soooo long that we even finished our food and after that we waited for another 15 minutes. We told them that it was ok, we didn't want the drinks anymore and please bring the check.

The waiter came back with our drinks and told us "oh you know what? Your drinks were already made and standing there in the bar, so here you go" ... like, that would make it better.

So we decided to drink them since he already put them on our table and they were "already made like 30 minutes ago" also we had to keep waiting for the check. So we begin drinking them and oh surprise! They got the order wrong. We told them they took one back (the one that was wrong) and gave us the check included the wrong drink, then the waiter said: "umm just minus 100 pesos from that and that will be your total" I said: "hey the drinks were 110 pesos" waiter: "ummm... oh you are right"

They didn't apologize enough or make up for that experience, they just care about...

Went to El Ocho again after visiting 4 years ago and was disappointed by the quality of the food this time.

Went for dinner with family members (4 of us), and after waiting 30 mins to be seated on a busy night, we placed the orders.

The food got to the table suspiciously fast. It literally took about 7 minutes for all the food to come out. Including an order of chicken cordon blue, chicken wings, steak sandwich, and a turkey sandwich. I'm pretty sure most of it was pre-made...

The steak sandwich was the same one that I ordered for 4 years ago, but this time, it was disappointing, unlike the first time. There was barely any steak, and the fries are now these super thin fries that taste like frozen fries from the supermarket.

The wings BBQ wings were honestly not good, and the turkey sandwich was just ok.

The best dish was the chicken cordon bleu, which was actually very tender.

It's a nice place for a younger audience as they have different type of games you can play on the table while you wait for your food or after.

Besides the food disappointment, the service was great. The waitress was attentive. The photo of the sandwich with a tomato on top was from 4 years ago vs. the sandwich now with...

El Ocho se promociona como un café, con el funny twist de juegos de mesa, si bien la carta de juegos es larguísima y por eso se merecen un diez, la comida desabrida y la capacidad del espacio a tope le gana a lo bueno.

Como platillo principal ordene "El 88" que consta de pechuga rellena de champiñones bañada en una "exquisita salsa de quesos" acompañada de puré de papa. Un asco. Nada de sabor, la carne evidentemente congelada estaba mal cocida, ni algo tan simple como el puré tenía el mínimo good taste indispensable. $300 pesos

Luego, por ser una tarde de amigos las bebidas divertidas no podían faltar.

Una "mamila" que es más ni menos jugo de fruta frozeada combinada con apenas una cucharada del alcohol de tu preferencia. $150 porque incluía "piquete"

Como una luz al final del túnel, esperaba que el postre hiciera su chamba después de tan desagradable plato fuerte, confié en mi vista y elegí de la carta un "come galletas" que consistía en galletas (en la imagen se describe como con chispas de chocolate) y helado de vainilla. Resultó que esa luz no sería más que una ilusión óptica que me hizo desconfiar del mundo más que nunca. Recibí varias bolas de helado, con galleta tipo pan de NATA, duro como piedra y con trozos tan dispersados que parecía más una malteada con trazas de piedras dulces. $100 y algo. -10/10 por la publicidad engañosa (ojo profeco 🤣)

Para terminar, el calor era insoportable, son tan austeros con su inversión mobiliaria, que lo mejor que pudieron conseguir en el corazón de la Condesa fue un par de ventiladores viejos que avientan el aire reciclado de cuerpos calientes que llenaban casi a totalidad el espacio, el cual es reducido porque le dan preferencia a vender que a la comodidad. No me imagino una situación de sismo en ese lugar, el desalojo debe ser un cuello de botella (ojo protección civi).

Para refrescarme me guíe por la sugerencia del, eso sí muy amable y servicial, mesero. En un tarro de 90ml me trajeron lo que sería la mejor inversión culinaria que pude hacer en este lugar. Un barril del chavo, estaba frío, sabía muy rico a sandía (pedí quitar el jugar de arándonos) y con su respectivo piquetito de alcohol, uf una chulada. $180 pesotes.

En total (individual) de dos bebidas, un plato "fuerte" y un postre: +- $750 pejecoins. He gastado más en otras cosas penosamente más inútiles qué, sin duda, le ganarían al pollo desabrido que ni me terminé.

En resumen,

☝🏻 Los juegos y el servicio: 👍🏻

☝🏻 La comida, costos, ambiente (la música de elevador mezclada con hits de tiktok en bucle debería ser considerada una nueva forma de t0rtur4 medieval) y ventiladores pedorrros en pleno calentamiento global: 👎🏻

Sugerencia: échenle ganas en el sazón de la comida. Entiendo que los costos están "bien" porque la zona lo permite, pero tampoco sean hambreados. Merecemos calidad. También inviertan en aire acondicionado, no mamen. Y mejoren el espacio para que la gente pueda entrar y salir con facilidad de su...