Restaurante El Sesteo — Restaurant in Leon (Municipality)

Terrible service & worst tamales we've EVER eaten in our whole lives. We decided to eat here since we were in the park, hungry, hot and tired. However, while this is centrally located, we really regretted having picked this place to eat & drink. We waited LITERALLY ONE HOUR for our tamales. Our clueless & seemingly new server failed to tell us that they had just run out of a batch of tamales & apparently had to make a new one, which took a FULL HOUR. Had we known this information since the moment we ordered, we'd have ordered something different. But no, this information was not conveyed to us by our server, instead he kept saying "It'll just be another moment" every single time I'd ask him how much longer for our food to be ready. Way fed up, I finally spoke a supervisor, I thought it was outrageous to have to wait for 2 tamales for over ONE HOUR. The supervisor was nice & a much more knowledgeable & professional server also helped us & took over our table. He explained to us what had happened with the batches of tamales. We had very little time in Leon to explore the town, & about an hour & half was wasted here just waiting for a tamal! Completely unacceptable! I was livid! & all just because our server sucked & didn't communicate with us clearly. My expectations are not super high when I'm visiting a third world country, that said, DO NOT WASTE MY TIME! To top it all off, when the tamales were finally delivered to our table, like an hour and 10 minutes after they've been ordered, they were awful. I don't think I've had a tamal so bad in my life. It had lots of fat, barely anything inside, bland, & my friend's tamal was still COLD on one side! Just terrible experience all around. The server that replace our original clueless server was very nice & on top of things. You could tell that he was truly trying to make up for the stupidity & dumbness of the other server that ruined our experience. I wish I'd have gotten his name to leave a shout out for him. It's a shame, we enjoyed our time in Leon otherwise, but the experience at this restaurant tarnished our visit & wasted a ton of time we...

We often use GuideGeek to help us find things to do and places to eat while we travel. El Sesto was the first restaurant recommended and it had good reviews. It’s not air conditioned it has three wide open areas and at least on the day we ate lunch here there was a very nice breeze. We sat at a table inside overlooking the cathedral. The service was good, and the menu is both in English and Spanish. We both had a nacatamal which is nothing like a Mexican tamale. The maza dough is soft and it comes with a sauce. I prefer the Mexican tamale, but my husband preferred the nacatamal. We also got fried bananas with cheese. This was way too much food 😂 It was a little bland, but it was probably due to what we chose. I saw a lot of people were getting breaded shrimp and seemed to like it. We spent $20 each and this included drinks. If you sit by an opening to the outside, be prepared for street vendors or beggars to stop by and pay you a visit every...

We visited El Sesteo to try local dishes like nacatamal after reading some decent reviews, but unfortunately, the experience was far from enjoyable. The service was incredibly slow—despite there being only a handful of patrons, we waited 40 minutes for food and drinks. Our bottled beer took even longer, and by the time it arrived, we had nearly finished our meal.

To make matters worse, we were overcharged for multiple beers, even though we barely got the one we actually ordered. When we asked for the check, the waiter disappeared to the back of the restaurant, where several other staff members were chatting. We had to ask multiple times for the check, feeling as though we were inconveniencing them by trying to pay.

The food was fine, but the poor service and overpricing made it an overall frustrating experience. We would not recommend...