Juanita's in Boulder, Colorado! We made plans this past weekend to drive to Rocky Mountain National Park to hopefully see the elk and the changing of the leaves but ended up hitting construction traffic in between Boulder and Lyons so we turned around and headed to the Pearl Street Mall for lunch instead.
After walking the mall and deciding against any of the big corporate eateries I picked Juanita's mexican restaurant. I should have turned and walked out as soon as I walked in when we realized that a) the restaurant had only a few people seated while every other restaurant we looked at was packed! and b) that the restaurant smelled bad, like moldy. But instead we were seated, ordered our drinks and the waiter brought our drinks, (he screwed up my order) chips and salsa. The chips most likely were Tostito's and I've had better jarred salsa than what he brought to us!
When Henry had to go to the bathroom I really should have just got up and left. The bathroom smelled SO bad, the door was propped wide open and guess what was next to the bathroom? You got it , the kitchen. After gagging my way back to the table I started to get pissed off. The waiter looked as if he were avoiding us, we were out of drinks and it was over 40 minutes since we sat down and ordered and still no food so Jas asks the waiter how long it will take because if it goes on much longer we are going to have to cancel our order because our kids are hungry and cranky! The waiter (I hate to even use that title with this guy because it's an insult to anyone in the food industry!) replies "The food will get here when it gets here!".... right then and there I was way beyond PISSED! Don't mess with me and secondly when you have a table full of hungry cranky kids you don't make them wait 40 minutes for a hamburger and quesadilla! I immediately told him to cancel our order and I wanted to see his manager. I was a little surprised at how loudly I said that part after a number of people turned their heads to look at me! So jerkface goes in the back with nothing more to say and a girl who worked there walked by me and I asked to see the manager and she when in the same direction as jerkface and of course no manager came to our table so I see this guy who might be the manager (he was wearing button up shirt) and asked if he was and he said yes so I went on to tell him how rude and unprofessional his staff was and demanded our order be cancelled and we left....
So, 50 minutes later after sitting down to what we had hoped would be some good mexican food we ended up going to a corporate eatery after all and having a nice lunch. After all is said and done I think we might have avoided getting food poisoning or at least the shits! LOL
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