Mi Cancun — Restaurant in Pittsboro

Good service, clean joint. Nothing jumped out in the health/safety.

But my gawd, you all have to drain the oil from your veggies. I could take a green pepper strip out of my burrito, dab it on a napkin and recreate the Exxon-Valdez disaster. Coat your veggies lightly and grill them to burn the oil off, c'mon now.

Cheese dip was good. The canned jalapenos gave it some kick, even if it was obviously diced canned kick. Would have dug some pico salsa with big chunky tomato and onion pieces. Least the chips were served hot.

The beans were cold by the time they got to the table. Pretty sure its because they were spread 1mm thick over roughly 6x6 inches of plate. Based on my vague memories of middle school science, this makes the beans go cold. Put your beans in a little side bowl or sumthin'.

The menu was kinda odd overall, missing some mexican standbys for sure. Def disappointed that you only serve wet burritos. If I wanted to eat a burrito with a fork, I'd order an enchilada. I want a burrito with a nice crispy outer tortilla.

Ok, the quesadilla. It also comes with peppers. Not a problem, but quesadillas are supposed to be finger food. If you all really want to put peppers in them, then at least slice the quesadilla into triangles or stripes after you do it, so they can be managably picked up.

Ok though, at my table there was salt, pepper, and a bottle of ketchup. Mexican restaurant. No hot sauce on the table? Wut? I mean, I guess I wouldn't be bothered by the existence of ketchup if the hot sauce was also there, but really, you made the choice between the two and went with liquid tomato sugar?

Last, not a knock, but a thing. I am perpetually disaapointed no NC Mexican places serve sliced radishes & sliced carrots along with the opening chips. It's a super common Mexican thing, but it got lost in the shuffle somewhere past the MexiTex border. I would pay for the option to have these as extra appetizers.

Still of the three Mexican places in Pittsboro, this is the only one even worth...

Short story: 1 star as my dining partner didn't get her dinner, our waiter disappeared after taking our dinner order, I had to find the hostess to get our bill, and no apologies for the bad service. Long story: We decided to try this place out and were promptly seated outside, which is a nice area. Initially, our waiter was attentive, getting us waters, taking our drink order, then getting our dinner order. However, after that, the waiter went MIA. My dinner arrived quickly, but the server (not our waiter) didn't bring my dining partner's dinner and he left as soon as he dropped my plate. We thought that her meal would be coming out next, so I didn't start eating. But we waited, and waited, and waited. I was starving, so I started eating...slowly. In the meantime, we also searched for our waiter so that she could get her meal and place another drink order. Never saw him. I finally finished my dinner (it was pretty good, the carne asada)...still no service. This was 30+ minutes after we last saw our waiter (when we ordered our food). My dining partner finally got up and walked over to Root Cellar to get a bite to eat. I went inside and saw our waiter helping a table, so I walked over to the hostess and told her I needed my bill, that our waiter went missing and we never got half our dinner order. She told me she would send our waiter over, so I went back outside to wait. He came over with the bill, and it still had the missing meal on the receipt. I told him he needed to take it off, as we never got it. In the end, the only comment he made about our missing dinner was he would need to talk to the kitchen and find out what happened. No apology from him or the hostess. Even if the kitchen messed up, what waiter would not stop by during our meal to...

I have given this "new" Mexican restaurant many occasions to shine. But after 6 visits, it is following the dismal trail of failed Mexican restaurants in Pittsboro, NC. Two local Mexican restaurants were so bad they both closed the pass year.

This quasi-hipster restaurant in the new Mosaic is totally inconsistent. Out of 6 visits, I have had only 2 meals that were relatively good. Either the meal is very disappointing or the "margaritas"/drinks are so weak! Some same meals/drinks have been from good to horrible within a week or two.

Yesterday's lunch took over 30 minutes to reach the table! If you have an hour for lunch, you'll be eating your meal in 5 minutes. And out of 4 persons, none of us thought our meals were "authentic", or actually tasted good. The salsa tasted like canned tomato sauce with a couple slices of onion. The sauce on the enchilada supreme tasted like canned tomato sauce poured over an enchilada made at least a day before - dry as a brick. And the rice served was red -- you guessed it canned tomato sauce poured on the rice.

I imagine the owners have a challenge meeting the rent at the upscale Mosaic area, and providing a quality meal. Staff has been entirely different at each visit. Lastly, I had a blue collar existence for years, carpenter, tile install business, contractor, etc. But a restaurant wanting to be classy should have an established a dress code and stick with it. I really don't want drywall or concrete dust floating from the next table to mine while having a business/special lunch.

I suggest passing on this restaurant until the owners arrive at a quality and consistent product. Owners, get your...