Palomino

Seems Restaurants Unlimited has seriously overhauled the former Manzana’s from the Pacific Group they bought out. The menu is not as rustic as it once was. Gone are the times of the Rotisserie chicken used throughout the whole menu, now the menu is “fancy” and the ambience modern contemporary. Goodness there’s only 1 TV I spotted, hardly a place I would be comfortable in for Happy Hour. Anyhow, the food is still top notch, table service great, Amount of Time waiting on Entrees AWFUL. 40+ minutes for 1 entree of Chicken. And the restaurant was barely 1/3 full on a Monday night. Cooks standing around…at least the server kindly offered us a free sample of Tiramisu.

The restaurant was very loud with screaming children and I was seated by the kitchen so constant banging in the background. We placed our drink order and a medium-sized spider walked across the table. We asked our waitress, Brooke, to get the manager. The manager, Eric Welford, was very slow to come to our table, did not seemed too concerned and starting discussing extermination issues with us at the dinner table. Our entree order was wrong so we had to wait longer for our food. Overall, the food portions are too big, greasy, cheesy and the lobster ravioli barely had a piece of lobster in it! While waiting for our check, ANOTHER SPIDER walked across our table. Again, the manager did not have much to say.