[quote author="blackvault_cm" date=1231926280][quote author="ChristianZ" date=1231925398]"Welcome to IHB Christian! I?ve been a fan of your site since I first found it linked on OC Fliptrack.
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Thanks! Believe me, there's plenty more content coming.
"I appreciate knowing about the incident at Taco Rosa and won?t be trying it out."
Would you have gone otherwise? The incident they referred to may have been real but is nothing like the dozens and dozens of times I've been there.</blockquote>
Personally doesn't matter. I read some other reviews and I'm not the only one. Some complained about the same burnt chips that I've experienced. In order for a restaurant to be listed as a quality one, they can't have an incident once every couple of dozen visits. You can F-up once, and maybe I'll come back the second time if you were accomodating to my incident. Second time...forget about it.
Times are tough...so imagine people that do take a shot at a restaurant like this...how would they feel if they had this experience considering they probably stretched their income just to dine there. You can't screw up in a bad economy.
If this was a stock, I would be 110% confident in shorting and buying puts on Taco Rosas any given day. Wish they were public...I would pull all my capital and aim to sink it.</blockquote>
Well, every restaurant I've been to has had some sort of negative aspect to it which means you should never go to any restaurant. I don't get chips there because chips are not an authentic Mexican item at least not in the way Americans think they are. At Taco Rosa each person gets a free appetizer that is better than chips and salsa, but OC gringos have it in their heads that every Mexican restaurant has to have chips and salsa. Taco Rosa has them for people who think that way and many of the misunderstandings I have seen people have about Taco Rosa stem from the customer's own misperception of what authentic Mexican food is. Mexican restaurants in Mexico only started serving chips and salsa when droves of Americans would go down there and go, "Hey, where's our chips and salsa like we get all the time at Mexican restaurants in America?"
"You can F-up once, and maybe I'll come back the second time if you were accomodating to my incident."
Yes, that's true but you're not putting any stock into me telling you I've been there dozens and dozens of times (perhaps over a hundred but I'm not counting) and haven't had negative experiences like the ones described here. So you are saying, "Only believe the negative reports because obviously negative reports are more credible." You also seem to be implying that once a restaurant (or one employee of a restaurant) makes a mistake that they should never ever be able to live the mistake down and that nobody on the planet should ever go there again.
I've had the chips there a few times (not often, and I've really only had them when somebody in my party goes, "Hey, where's our chips and salsa?") and they are not burnt but they do have a robust, rustic flavor. I might just tell them though now that everybody thinks they are burnt and that maybe they should become less authentic and bring chips and salsa to every table and stop doing the free, more authentic, bocadillo.
And I've been to every other place other posters have mentioned here and can tell you negative things about each one, but in each case the positive outweighs the negative. In fact I've been to each one more than once.
I think I might actually e-mail this thread to them.