Restaurante Chile's Pepper — Restaurant in Sinaloa

I wanted to like this place because of the view, but the service and quality of food made that impossible. I showed up for breakfast and the fellow who greeted me initially seemed nice enough, but the other waiters were unfriendly to the point of being rude and surly. It was as if they were irritated by having to bother with customers.

I wanted hot tea instead of coffee, asking for green tea. The friendly guy showed up with a glass of cold, frothy green something or other, which I declined. Then one of the rude guys showed up, throwing three packets of tea on the table in a disrespectful manner, saying "this is all we have". I should have left right then, but chose black tea from the options offered.

I ordered one of the combo breakfasts and the 2nd of the rude waiters corrected my Spanish pronunciation of scrambled eggs in a mocking manner. Again, I should have left right then, but I shrugged it off and chose to go with the flow.

The food showed up and everything on the plate was cold; the eggs, chilequiles, chilario, toast, beans; everything cold. The orange juice was the only thing that was not cold; go figure. The hot tea was lukewarm.

It's clear that everything had been prepared in advance since the food arrived at my table less than a minute after I ordered. So I got the buffet style treatment where the cook only needed a few seconds to shovel previously prepared food onto a plate, then hand it to the waiter.

The food had no real flavor, other than the orange juice, which tasted off. I only had a couple sips of the OJ and left the rest.

To make matters worse I had to compete with aggressive pigeons for my breakfast, as they jumped on my table and other tables. In retrospect I would have been better off just giving them my meal.

At this point I saw a pigeon pooping on a neighboring table. Then I noticed the wet stains on my tablecloth. That did it for me. I was done. When the waiter brought me la cuenta he proudly announced, "only 155 pesos", as if this made up for the poor service, poor food, and questionable conditions.

I cannot recommend and would certainly...

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