Margarita's - Pondicherry


MARGARITA'S 







                              

We decide to try the new Mexican restaurant just open in Pondicherry.
When we arrive, we were pleasantly surprised by discovering the ambience with a red colored wall and multicolour lamps on the ceiling that gave a hot but at the same time, intimate atmosphere. Behind the counter, the barman was busy to prepare some mock tails in the same style of Mexico, like Margarita’s, Pina Colada and Mojito, but without alcohol…at the end was just a fancy way to drink lime soda or coconut.
The waiter approaches us with the menu’ and we start to read about the speciality offered by the restaurant. There are a lot of dishes to choose from like Burritos, Enchiladas, Nachos, Fajitas and the options are vegetarian, lamb, chicken or sea food. Unfortunately the restaurant doesn’t serve beef and for a Mexican place is really a disappointment. Anyway we place the order, starting with nachos and Guacamole: the sauce was surely green like the avocado but the seasoning was absent and no trace of lime or chilli like the original recipe.
Also the nachos with sea food where just covered with some tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese and heat in the microwave, with the result that the cheese becomes hard immediately and the sea food were really less.
The Burritos that we tried where lamb and chicken and also here we ask ourselves: where is the Mexican taste? We expected bold flavours ,rich sauces, caramelized onions on the side, chilli sauce, red beans to dig in and instead we had only a sherred boiled chicken wrapped in a worm flat bread, with a little sauce on the top and again mozzarella that don’t really belong to Mexico.
Then we decide to ask for the Finger Fish, just for having something more to eat but was a really bad decision. The fish was Basa, that absolutely did not smell fresh (also because it is a frozen fish) coated with a bread crumb mixture that was impossible to eat.
Tiramisu’ for dessert…in a Mexican restaurant?
OK, maybe will be a good way to finish a disappointed dinned but wasn’t like that: no taste of coffee, no mascarpone or any sort or sweet cream cheese, just some fresh cream that taste very eggy  and a sprinkle of cocoa powder on top.
The staff was very gentle, professional and polite and the whole experience, if it had not been for the food, it would have been absolutely splendid. But why go to eat in a restaurant if not for the food?
Only the nice ambience and the kindness of the management do not make a good restaurant, the food does.

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