Verde Mexican Rotisserie — Restaurant in South Lake Tahoe

Edit: respoce to owner. This is not false information. You offered to only remake my food ONCE and I politely said no. As I already ate the swimming in water tacos. Let alone you violated our privacy by looking over my mom's shoulder to her phone, and you were so engrossed in looking at her phone that you didn't even notice me looking straight at you. Which is ILLEGAL by the way. You told us to get out when we pointed out that our food wasn't the most bestsussuus ever. We didn't even get to finish our food. Once again dont go here unless you want to get kicked out for nothing.

Never been kicked out of a restaurant for writing a review. This was my last day of high school so me and my mom wanted to go out and treat ourselves to a decent meal as we haven't gone out and eaten for 6 or so months as we don't have a lot of money. We decided to try this place because it was new in town and to see if it was worth the money to go again. I ordered 2 tri-tip tacos and my mom ordered 2 fish tacos. The tri-tip was extremely chewy and over cooked and the tacos were basically swimming in water from the pico. I tried to drain out my tacos and it filled the paper in the try and 4 whole napkins not including the water that went down my arm and all over my clothes as I wasn't expecting the tacos to be a swimming pool. The fish tacos were extremely dry and the med salsa just tasted the same as the pico. The guacamole had a large hard price of avocado that we couldn't even cut with our fork. The owner came over to take our plates and I was finished and I just said that they were a little watery. And she went on the offensive right away stating "why didn't you tell anyone" and I didn't want new tacos that were going to be made with the same bad ingredients and probably even more water. It was my last day of high school I wasn't trying to start anything in this new restaurant. She starts to try to take my mom's plate and my mom states that she wasn't done and points out the large peice of avocado that took up at least 1/4 of our guacamole bowl and asked why we got such a large peice of bad product. The owner in a very degrading way said "it's just produce" and continues to try to take her plate and my mom says once again that she isn't done with her food and to leave her plate. The owner looked extremely offended for some reason when we were not done eating. After that my mom started to write a review and was going to give a 3 star one until this happened. The owner came out to clean the tables behind us and I was just waiting for my mom to be done when the owner stops right behind my mom and looks right over her shoulder and at her phone which is an invasion of privacy and when I called her out she was denying it when I was staring straight at her doing it. She proceeded to ask us to leave. For what?? Writing a Yelp review? She starts to argue with us saying that she owns this place and we should just leave. We didn't even complain about the food till she asked and we didn't ask for new ones. We were kicked out of this place for writing a 3 star review and now that we left it's now a 1 star. Don't go here unless you want to get attacked...

HOME OF THE 24- DOLLAR BURRITO

Lets ponder for a moment what it would take to make a burrito worth twenty four dollars { well 23 and some change inc tip} thats what I paid today 10/20/24 around 1:45pm for a single steak burrito at Verde SLT.

First, lets no be hasty here, Verde has drawn strong reviews and high scores leading up to today, even from me. I in fact had this conversation with one of the owners a few years back, even then I was still taken aback by the price even in south lake tahoe where the tourist tax has been a thorn in the side of locals for generations.

Here's the things...

A. You might think that twenty four buck would buy you some leeway on water cups and extra salsa, not so fast there hombre. "water cups cost money" and they are for soda says the curly haired girl behind the counter. Ok, my mistake. to her credit, she did hand me one single additional salsa on request. but not without accompanying stink eye.

B. no one likes to be nickel and dimed, but this place is most definitely one of those spots that likes to add on additional for every little thing. salsa? pay me, cheese? pay me. And so this is how an innocent burrito grow quickly in price, if you want the things make a burrito a burrito, its gonna cost ya.

So was it good? See that's what prompted the writing of this review. Short answer is NO IT WASNT, For several reasons... I ordered guacamole on my burrito, NOT A guac-a-rito. It was overloaded beyond, and with sour cream {which ironically i didnt ask for}. but the fatal flaw? GRISTLE. See, self respecting mexi lovers will tell you, the defining point of a mexican restaurant is whether their cooks take the time to cut the fat off the meat. Cheap ones dont, we all know. but expensive places, like VERDE, are supposed to provide a gristle free burrito experience. But no, i ended up having to spit out THREE pieces of steak, THREE, from this rito.

Im sorry, but that is total unacceptable, esp when i just paid twenty four bucks. Not to mention that is was so overloaded with guac, I ended up actually dropping some of it, off the rito, onto my car seats. That was the final straw, as im pulled over near emerald bay wondering how im gonna to get the green mess out of my upholstery. I knew this was a review that had to be written.

Hey there Verde cooks, is this funny to you? Are you not entertained??

And to that smile-less lady behind the counter who wanted to guilt trip me into paying for a cup for water, Id say it should come out of three bucks I left you for my pathetically over priced to go order.

Short version, dont do it, unless you'd like a large helping of guile with your guac and...

The food was fresh. The red salsa and the green salsa were quite good. The black beans were very good. The chicken was quite tasty.

But what ruined our ( 3 of the 4 of us) experience was the sweet potatoes that are just overtly sweet, so sweet that they tasted like a dessert (but a potato dessert 😵) was crammed into your burrito you bit into expecting delicately salted-spiced scrumptiousness .

We ordered 2 burritos, as well as 2 kids meals. The quesadilla and tacos were quite good because they luckily didn't include those potatoes. These sweet potatoes were advertised but not that they're over-sweetened ---which ruined our meal.

I'm sharing this, because this sweetness may take you by surprise if you're expecting this to be a typical Mexican Eatery--It is not, it is more of a hipster style Eatery than it is Mexican. Only reason we would return is if there was no place else to eat, then we would have black beans, quesadilla and the salsa, because luckily they didn't seem to sneak in those sweet potatoes in...