Zandunga 2 Comida Oaxaqueña — Restaurant in Querétaro

I went today for the menu del día. 120 pesos. It would've been very helpful for me to have the menu choices written down. I am not fluent in Spanish, but I can read it quite well. While the server was very patient with my questioning, it was difficult for me to understand the menu options. I chose the crema poblano and the pork dish. Now, when she was describing the options she may have said something like "roasted pork ribs in a mixed berry reduction accented with alfalfa sprouts". I understood "cerdo". The crema was excellent, with delicate flavors in a warm, creamy base. I was a bit surprised when I was served three pork ribs with a slightly pink reduction. The two or three pieces of blackberry and raspberry gave away the origin of the pink color. The plate was rimmed with alfalfa sprouts. No vegetables, no rice, no frijoles, nada mas... Two of the ribs were tender, one was quite tough. The flavor was of slightly salty and sweet pork. Not terribly interesting, but good pork flavor. Very different from what you would expect from the usually strong, heavy and complex flavors of Oaxacan food. I don't blame the restaurant, I blame my lack of fluency in Spanish to understand the description of the dish. The menu Del dia comes with aqua Fresca (today Jamaica or Sandia, with refills) and gelatin or arroz con leche for dessert. The other options were chicken, beef or vegetarian. The other soup choice was a noodle soup. Service was fast, polite and efficient. They had an incredible amount of servers for the number of patrons in the...

I began with ordering a jugo de verde and server repeated “cafe”. It went downhill from there. Ordered huevos rancheros w/o ham and it was delivered with ham. Returned it explaining again, “I don’t eat ham”. It was returned by removing the ham slice off of the original plate. I then, in writing explained to another server that I wanted a freshly made order w/o ham and he agreed that I would only be charged for what I consumed. First server delivered my check and double charged me. I’ve been apologizing for the misunderstanding throughout yet someone hasn’t been trained on how to handle these types...

La comida es increíble, tengo que empezar por eso. No es económica como en Oaxaca, pero es económica para ciudad Querétaro. Tienen un menú diario bastante llenador y asequible. La atención de su personal es cálida y de las mejores, hay escucha.

Mis cuatro estrellas son porque el dueño es bastante cuadrado, cero flexible: Hay un patio que pudiera pero no es “pet tolerant” porque el dueño no quiere, vale, acá cada quien es libre de aplicar el derecho de admisión;

Tienen la política de cero errores, esto es, si te equivocaste de platillo al ordenar, no hay manera posible de cambiar tu platillo en el sistema porque el dueño no quiere, el personal es claro al describir el platillo de manera que estés segura qué estás pidiendo, pero una algunas veces está medio despistada (o tuviste un mal día, o te sientes medio mal físicamente, o estás triste, etc) y si te equivocaste pues ni modo, te toca pedir otro platillo y pagar ambos, o pedir los ingredientes que querías en tu platillo como extras pagando el respectivo costo aunque en la carta ambos platillos costasen lo mismo (en el caso específico de la tlayuda que fue mi caso); esto me resulta excesivo, he trabajado en restaurantes y nunca había visto uno que no admitiera errores o cambios en la comanda, no tiene qué ver el sistema que ocupen porque siempre hay una opción para cambiar un platillo a menos que el sistema que ocupen sea muy básico o muy viejo. Tengo entendido es el dueño quien no quiere errores.

Así que si van, lean bien la carta, hagan todas las preguntas que necesiten a su mesero•a y estén muy seguros de lo que van a pedir porque después no hay cambios, otra vez,...