Baja 328 Tequila Bar Southwest Grill — Restaurant in City of Beacon

We've been here before and always when it is not busy, intentionally. A lot of the time it is crowded with young drunk guys with backwards baseball caps who like to stare at actual grown women in a creepy bro way. There is at times an air of desperation and cheap cologne hovering around it, which is fine. That being said the food and drinks were also just fine. Passable. Nothing to write home about. The last time however, our inattentive server put all the rusty dried up lettuce and discolored tomato pieces we had exhaustively taken off our plates and put to the side in the to-go styrofoam clamshell we brought home. Kind of missed the point there as we were too polite to point out someone in the BOH saw these fetid items and put them on our plates anyway! Wake up! Hello? Had to ask for napkins and cutlery, refills of water, generally disconcerting for a light night with only a couple tables occupied. Total hit or miss. My firm belief is that our server was out of training for their first job ever other than sitting desk at the junior college student union playing some dumb game on their phone... otherwise...

Popped in on a Wednesday evening. We had intended to go for restaurant week, but decided on the regular menu instead.

To start, we did the cheese fundido, and let me tell you friends, this was straight up cheese heaven. It was essentially a queso, but in the way that a Cadillac is just a car. It was incredibly creamy, with a silky texture. The chips were a little thicker than a regular tortilla chip, allowing you to scoop lakes of the fundido on to your chip and waterfall it into your mouth. I even started hunting for chips with air bubbles to allow me to fill that beautiful bubble with cheese. It was a straight up cheese waterpark at our table, and i know everyone else staring was just jealous.

After that, i had chosen 3 tacos - buffalo calamari, shrimp, and something else that I don't remember because a cheese coma had started to kick it. My friend got a sampler platter of some kind that i vaguley remember him saying was really good as i slipped away into a...

This was a huge disappointment. We got the chips and salsa...which was really pico. It was bland, the chips were store bought, unseasoned, not even warm. We had a bus boy take them away for us. They brought us the wrong food then finally corrected it. The waitress made some excuse and asked if we wanted hot sauce. We said yes then waited 10 minutes for her to come back with it. She didn’t. My husband didn’t eat one of the tacos because he said it tasted like dog food. We eat A LOT of Mexican food and this was by far the worst place we’ve ever been too. If you go there, maybe just stick to the booze? We didn’t drink but maybe being inebriated will help ease the awfulness of this...