Pappasito's Cantina

Is it against the rules to review a place that you have eaten at recently as someone’s guest? I recently went out for a birthday celebration, (not mine, one of my favorite Taurus’s though.) I don’t really know the proper rules or etiquette for rating as I’m not a professional critic, although I think 🤔 I’d be a damn epic one, most definitely a G.O.A.T. - don’t you agree? Anyway, back to the review of Pappasito’s. I hate to say it, because this place has so many people entranced with its cuisine, but not so much me. We arrived with no reservation, but they were able to seat our party of 5 with in 10 minute window as promised. There were quite a few empty tables, so I have no idea why there was a wait at all, but I’m not one of those people that sweat things of that nature. However, the person who had invited us out for the celebration is not a big fan of eating at a table that’s close to the restroom facilities. So she politely asked if we could sit at another empty table that was the same amount of seats as we needed. The hostess, replied that she would have to summon management as that would require their approval, since that table was in another server’s jurisdiction of tables. She declined, since she didn’t want ti bother the manager over something that didn’t seem like a big deal, since it was empty, clean, and not downwind from the latrines. Also the hostess didn’t seem too pleased about the request, like it was somehow placing her under some type of duress. No one in my dining party would want any person who must deal with the public for the duration of their work day to be put out or feel some kind of way during to our preferences, as at least half of the party had worked in similar conditions at least once in our working careers. So we are always very careful about asking anything that would not be considered anything acceptable, nor would anyone present this particular evening would be comfortable knowing that this hostess had to do something that was not in her job description for us. Perhaps that request was out of line? I don’t know, I’ve never hostessed just bartended and served when I was in the hospitality sector, so I may be wrong but I didn’t think it was a unusual request or something that would have to be escalated up the ladder to management! But what do I know they might take there seating arrangements very seriously there or maybe it was a “Karen” request. 😳😬just my opinion ! We all have opinions, just like our booties , some people have a stinky one, some a beautiful one, and others somewhere in the middle. And just like fingerprints no two are alike!)***Our busser comes to the table announces that she is not the server but he will be right along in a minute. Than she swiftly retrieved some chips/ salsa, and took our drink order. The birthday boy wanted a “Flamingo Mango tango” or some curry name of a concoction that I thought wasn’t my best choice of drinks. I had gotten one also, just one because it wasn’t anything like I hoped it to be. Mango’s are sweet and refreshing, and pretty cheap so I wouldn’t think they would have to use a syrup or done other artificial sweetener in this drink, nor did I watch them open a can, but what ever they used to mix the vodka was way to sweet, and I do LOVE ❤️ me a sweet drink, but refreshingly delicious sweet, not reminiscent of simple syrup sitting in a the drink well with fruit flies buzzing around mixed with some artificial generic mango flavored watered down liquid with like 2% juice and 95% high fructose corn syrup and 3%chemicals and colors, and ingredients I can’t pronounce to “flavor” it instead of just using the actual fruits. Also it was supposed to have “ginger beer” mixed in and mine had zero flavor of ginger. I like when they use a quality ginger beer, or none. it was horrific, but I’m not one to abuse alcohol. So down it went. I ordered the seafood enchiladas since there are nearly zero vegetarian choices available. It was decent, nothing special. Our waiter Jorge was very attentive, professional, &was the best asset this restaurant had☹️