La Mordida — Restaurant in Madrid

I'll start with the good. The competent waiter and the cute interior saved this review from being 0 stars if possible. Somewhere in Mexico, there are a group of people slowly seething with umbrage. We had a salad of nopalitos (canned), crushed tortilla chips with a terrible dressing on top, like a watered down Catalina. The only saving grace was the cherry tomatoes. The cochinita pibile no flavor whatsover. Also, who garnishes things with dried herbs? In addition, cochinita pibile is supposed to be redolent of garlic, heavy with achiote, some heat from different chiles. The cochinita pibile was redolent of NOTHING! NADA! Vegetable fajitas should be a cakewalk. They managed to mess this up. In this day and age of Youtube, there should not be bad food. Perhaps that might be too much to ask. Perhaps they should go visit a Jose Tejas somewhere to start. (Do they exist in Europe?) It's not like I'm expecting a Mexican restaurant to understand the nuances of the usage of different dried chiles, but there is an accepted international idea of what constitutes good Mexican food, and this was the...

Best Authentic Mexican food in Madrid hands down!

The owner was born and raised in a small town of Michoacán, México and you can tell by the style of food served. It does carry some fusion in terms of local products in Madrid but the home cooked tortillas and fresh guac let you know it's legit.

I had the birria with home made Tortillas and a side of guac. Had a the Palomo (tequila with lime juice and tad of toronja). The food was amazing and reminded me back of Michoacan and my mother's cooking. The price was also reasonable. I think that whole thing was €13 and the portions were big.

The wait staff was amazing. Although they were busy they were nice and accommodating. The owner made room for people without reservations and also told them that if they wanted to come back a bit later he could add them to the list. Amazing! Went above and beyond.

They also give a complimentary shot of Mezcal at the end of your meal (and don't even think about refusing it as it will offend then...

Es dificil que yo venga aquí a hablar mal de un restaurante, pero hay cosas que necesito registrar.

Los platos han dejado que desear en cuestión de sabor: sosos, sin condimientos y porciones pequeñas para lo que se cobra. Malos del todo no estaban, los hemos comido, pero quedaron debiendo.

Pero mi calificación va por la atención. Desde el momento que llegué, nunca me vinieron a coger el pedido (el camarero ni a la vista estaba sino yo lo hubiese llamado) y después de 20min pude al fin PEDIR una cerveza, cerveza esa que ha tardado OTROS 20min en llegar después de que yo haya tenido que VOLVER a pedirla para recordar el camarero que tenía pendiente traermela.

Pero, ¿y si les digo que me pasó lo mismo con la segunda cerveza? Ha tardado TANTO que fui yo a la barra a buscarla, aunque el camarero no me la dió diciendome que me la llevaba, claro que nuevamente ha tardado su rato.

Estamos hablando de intervalos largos, dado que yo soy una persona que no tiene problema en esperar si está pasandola bien con amigos. Recordando que el lugar NO estaba lleno.

El camarero impaciente y mal humorado (estaba solo). Al final, antes de acercar la tarjeta al datafono (más de la mitad de la mesa ya había pagado), yo trato de corroborar el valor para confirmar que estaba bien y el camarero me dice de forma impaciente y de mala manera: "rápido porque tengo mucho que hacer. Que si me pagas 1 euro demás yo te lo devuelvo vale".

Una persona que ha tardado eternidad en traer todo lo que se pidió. A parte irónico cuando yo aún así le estaba por dejar propina.

No vuelvo más y no lo recomiendo. Salvo el buen rato que pasé con amigos, lamento decir que la experiencia no ha sido buena.

La segunda estrella es por el postre que estaba muy rico (lemon pie). Sino iba a...