La Cuisine — Restaurant in San Miguel de Cozumel

Last week I went and waited 15 minutes, no one came to take my order—before I sat down I asked at the register if I ordered there or at the table. They said table, they knew I was there. I gave up and left.

I thought I’d try again, this time I’d place my order at the register. The woman was doing something at the computer, so I thought, ok I know what that’s like when you’re trying to do something.

She never looked up at me and continued to enter receipts into the computer. So I left.

I’ve tried twice, but the feeling I get is that they’re doing you a favor, they’ll get to you when they can.

Same experience buying at the shop, I bought a big bag of things and had to wait while employees were hanging out, they finally acknowledgedI was at the register and barely said two words to me.

I eat a plant based diet so I really wanted to support them—but I always leave with a bad feeling.

Oh well. There’s another shop I can go to has plant based products. It would be nice to be able to go out to eat occasionally for a vegan meal, somewhere people are friendly and there’s a sense of community, not just commerce and a chilly, unfriendly atmosphere.

Reply to owner—I tried three times and each time the staff was unfriendly and behaved like the customers were an inconvenience to...

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