Hostería La Bota — Restaurant in Mexico City

FAKE Google Reviews here. Things that gone wrong:

When we arrived they didn’t greet us and we served ourselves to a table which was not cleaned. They didn’t bother to clean it either. Had to call the server to order the food and she kept walking away to gossip with other workers while taking the order was a bit annoying. Ordered a beer and additional paid option on her menu but instead served me a different beer and some random drink I didn’t order, started to get a little agitated but left it as is and drank the beer I didn’t order because my food didn’t come out yet as I don’t want some mystery meat. When one of the food arrived, there was no server to be found so we grabbed our own salsa from another table, didn’t know I work there now. My hamburger arrived but when the server left in a rush almost throwing throwing the wooden plate on the table and left, the top bun of burger and the tomato literally fell down by itself to the table so I decided to just eat whatever that didn’t touch the dirty table that they never cleaned. Went to use their bathroom, there is no fan inside and it’s very dirty. The whole place looks like someone’s nightmare, does not look sanitized and the floor is very sticky including the tables and chairs. Had enough just wanted pay and left so walked up the cashier and this server had the audacity to tip herself which we refused because this the worst restaurant experience in Mexico period.

I had better service in the local mercado than this overrated overpriced tipdemanding unsanitary nothing special of a place to...

Meh. Servers were indifferent and apathetic. We were excited to try the paella based on reviews and were happy to see it was a weekend only item and we arrived on a Sunday, but were told they didn’t have it. Then there was a rush to choose something different because the kitchen was closing in ten minutes (at 9:30) even though the restaurant is open until 11.

The food was fine. A ton of cheese on both the querida and enchiladas suiza made it heavier than it needed to be. My husband ordered the Vodka Rickey from the menu but the waiter had no idea what it was. He showed him it on the menu and he said, Oh the Vodka Tonic Rickey,” even though the menu read vodka tonic OR Rickey. When it came it was just a vodka tonic with flat tonic. I ordered the margarita and was disappointed to find it was frozen but I didn’t specify on the rocks and wasn’t asked so that’s partly my own fault.

When we finished our drinks they were taken without an offer for another round. I asked for two glasses of water at the start and never received them.

No one was rude and we did get one or two smiles out of our waiter near the end but there was really no hospitality going on. The music was too loud for my liking but had an interesting blend of genres.

It came to more than it was worth, $600 pesos/$30 USD, but we were full even if not fulfilled. We would not return...

El día de hoy mi pareja y yo decidimos ir a comer a este lugar pues habíamos escuchado buenas opiniones, pero fue una desagradable experiencia. Para empezar el servicio es muy malo, los meseros, a pesar de ser muchos, están muy mal organizados y pareciera que de malas. Le pedimos a la mesera que nos acomodara en una mesa en la parte de afuera, a lo que respondió que preguntaría si estaba disponible, pero nunca nos dió una respuesta. El lugar en el que nos acomodaron quedaba en el paso de los meseros que cada que pasaban rozaban las sillas volviendo la estancia bastante incómoda. Los alimentos se tardan mucho en llegar, en nuestro caso más de 20 minutos. Incluso mi platillo llegó cunado mi pareja estaba termiando el suyo. La mitad de lo que quisimos comer no lo tenian disponible en ese momento (supongo por los días feriados). Queríamos unas croquetas de jamón serrano que primero nos dijeron que no había, a los veinte minutos nos dijeron que simepre sí y cuando las pedimos, cinco minutos después, nos dijeron que no había, igual con la cerveza artesanal. La comida tiene un buen sazón sin embargo las porciones distan mucho de ser lo que prometen en el menú. Pedimos una fabada que ellos especifican que es para compartir pues la porción es de casi 900 gramos pero al momento de servirla apenas alcanza para una persona. Al final quisimos un creme brule que tampoco tenían. Pedimos dos Vermut que en su carta los ponen como "Chato de vermut" con un costo de $30 por 2 onzas de trago. A parte tienen algo llamdo Tragos del mundo donde ofrecen Campari en $190 por 1.5 onzas ¿?. Nosotros pedimos Vermut, no campari y nunca nos especificaon las diferencias. Al final al recibir la cuenta nos estaban cobrando $300 extras de una paella que nunca pedimos, esto lo atribuimos a un error humano que al momento de mencionarlo lo corrijieron. Pero nos marcaron 3 "bebeidas libres" en $150 cada una, al preguntar nos dijeron que eran los Vermut que como eran cocteles no los tenían en la carta, lo cual es ilegal. No quisimos pelear, pero francamente nos sentimos estafados lo cual es una lástima. No volveremos. Profeco debería de...