Condesa Reviews Summary
Category: Mexican restaurant Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Customer Service
Pros:
- "Customer service is topnotch here!!"
- "the service was exceptional"
- "nice service"
- "The servers were wonderful and the food was amazingly flavorful."
- "The real star of this restaurant was their staff and their hard work and great customer service."
- "Special shoutout to our bartender David who was really hustling but still took the time to answer any questions we had."
- "The service was outstanding, and our waiter was very attentive."
Cons:
- "I wouldn’t recommend the snooty staff"
- "Our bartender yesterday was extremely crass, rude, and unwelcoming from the first interaction to the last."
- "bar tender was coughing all the time all over everything."
- "Our server was spotty checking in on us and insistent and rude when we politely expressed unhappiness with only one, small cheap dessert item."
- "service was a bit off."
- "service very confused and chaotic"
- "Horrible service!"
Food Quality
Pros:
- "Everything is from scratch, authentic, and utterly amazing."
- "Food was Delicious. Definitely the highlight."
- "The food was amazing."
- "Absolutely amazing. The stand out dish was actually an appetizer: a Mayan dish similar to a hummus but made with pumpkin seeds called Sikil Pak."
- "The ceviche was delicious and flavorful."
- "The food was exquisite!! THEE BEST Guac I've ever had."
- "The dishes are really tasty and fresh."
Cons:
- "All their cocktails were much sweeter than necessary."
- "The ambience, and location were poor. It’s connected to a hotel and that should have been a red flag."
- "the proteins were cooked perfectly but lacked the flavor and seasoning expected from mexican cuisine."
- "The main courses we ordered, carnitas tacos and pescado al pastor were extremely greasy and we could not finish them."
- "The food was unfortunately underwhelming; the wings were just spicy with no other flavor, even the crema didn’t help."
- "Unfortunately, I got the fish tacos, and they were so dry and beyond salty."
- "The black beans lacked flavor and had this weird taste about them."
Value for Money
Pros:
- "Drinks are chill and food are super cheap."
- "I made my margarita spicy. It was delicious & prices were reasonable."
- "Prices good"
- "Overall the menu features plenty of classic Mexican fare at fairly reasonable prices."
Cons:
- "Two carnitas tacos for $14. There was absolutely nothing about the tacos to warrant them to be $7 each."
- "The portion size is pretty small for what you are paying."
- "The drinks were also lacking in any real alcohol. $14/each for what amounts to a LaCroix imagining of a margarita."
- "Really had high expectations paying $30 for mole, just for the wrapped duck to be warm but nothing else (the sauce and rice were room temp)."
- "However, I can’t bring myself to be okay paying $18 for 2 tacos."
- "For $13, it was very stingy."
- "shrimp tosdatas, while they were good I think they do not worth the price."
Ambience & Location
Pros:
- "We were seated in the patio area which is covered and since it's in an alley street it was low traffic...ie.... Lovely way to spend a meal chatting."
- "Had such a wonderful time here. The space is absolutely stunning."
- "Food was unique and excellent, the vibe was great, beautiful outdoor patio."
- "The space is beautiful."
- "Really gorgeous decor and ambiance."
- "The atmosphere was fun."
- "Fantastic restaurant and bar. Great vibe, decor, its actually half inside half outside."
Cons:
- "The ambience, and location were poor. It’s connected to a hotel and that should have been a red flag."
- "Excruciatingly, painfully loud. Measured an enduring average of 97 decibels from 730 to 8pm on a Tuesday night."
- "Though you are looking at a parking garage, so it's slightly weird."
- "The sidewalk to enter the restaurant is horrible."
- "startling how loud it was."
- "We were there for brunch and although the place is beautiful the center has absolutely no shade."
- "having the doors open on the patio allowed mosquitoes to come in the restaurant"
Accessibility
Pros:
- "The wheelchair accessibility was wonderful."
- "The indoor space is majority wheelchair accessible."
Cons:
- "There are poles on the middle of the sidewalks that makes it hard to navigate for a wheelchair user."
- "The sidewalk to enter the restaurant is horrible."
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