After wandering the city and doing all the touristy things including the Zoo, I was starving. Initially I was looking for the all you can eat ribs deal but couldn’t remember what street those places were located. So I settled with this place and am happy I did. Cozy and warm cause it was a chilly night, I was greeted, seated and warming up with a glass of red. The décor was tex-mex barnyard ecclectic. Meat empanadas were very good, made fresh, very hot with a nice dipping sauce. Ordered the ribs and fries which were filling, ribs were tender and fries tasted clean, unlike our american fries. After a bottle of red wine, I was ready to continue my adventures. The only server, was very friendly. I would go back here again.
Alexandra K.
Tu valoración: 2 Alexandria, VA
This place wasn’t terribly bad but I wouldn’t say it was awesome. It almost felt like I was in the countryside where they cook Swamp meet or roadkill. I think this is because of the décor with the heads and all the other country like items on the wall, kind of an over kill! We went here because we didn’t really feel like having anything else in the area. For a cold day outside it was a pretty warm restaurant and I did appreciate that considering that in Amsterdam the kind of leave the restaurant doors open so that cold air comes into the restaurant. So we were given a menu which was a little confusing because of the way the items were set up it felt like everything has its own category and I feel like it could have been set up in a different way. The waiter was a bit clumsy I don’t know if he was trying to rush but he did Spill two plates of food on the floor and that’s forgivable because in a restaurant world it happens but what made it bad is that after spilling the food he went to the back and started yelling at the cook as if it was his fault and it was a little unprofessional because everyone in the restaurant could hear him yelling at the cook. So my friend and I finally decided on what we wanted he got the ribs with fries and I got the creamy sauce pasta. The food came out in a timely manner which was good and I was a little disappointed with my food it wasn’t terribly bad but it did have a sense of staleness to it and I had to taste of my friends ribs and it was alright nothing too special. Regarding prices, there were pretty affordable the items weren’t over price or anything of the sort. And also a little turn off was that the waiter was a little too personal. I observed him having conversation with two people next to us and he just got a little too personal for my liking and also at one point his girl friend brought his dog into the restaurant and he sort of introduced the dog to the customers which I thought was very unprofessional. Overall I wouldn’t say I would go back because there wasn’t anything too special about this place but if I had to and I had no other option then I would make a big fuss about it.
Faraaz Z.
Tu valoración: 4 Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA
This place wasn’t bad! We didn’t have advance plans to come here but we needed something in our stomachs before we headed out to enjoy another night in this eclectic city. When touring Amsterdam, you end up walking past so many steakhouses that you eventually get the craving to step inside of one of them and get a facefull of ribs. Today was that day. Mendoza looked as good as any but we chose it in particular because it wasn’t € 20 – 30 a plate like most other places. We managed to get two dishes that were around € 15 a plate. The lady and I split an order of spare ribs and another order of the steak shish kabob skewers. They were both quite tasty and the perfect size. The fries that they came with were perfectly cooked and a great compliment to the dishes. Washed it all down with 2 big Heinekens. Our server was very sweet in helping us understand the menu. In fact, at the end of our night, we realized that we lost our GVB tram passes somewhere in the night. We retraced every bar, every dessert spot, and every bench that we sat on that night until we finally made it back to our starting point: Mendoza Steakhouse. They were cleaning up and closing shop when we asked them if they had seen our passes(they were quite expensive 5 day unlimited passes) and sure enough, they held them for us in case we returned. What a relief. The Dutch are wonderfully honest. Probably a 3 star establishment as it is, but I’m giving it 4 stars because they really saved our asses by holding our train passes for us.
