DC restaurant review: Rosa Mexicana

Chinatown is booming. Last night I went out with some mates after work. I was starved so we started off at Rosa Mexicana. Maybe its just me but any restaurant in DC if you get in anytime before 7PM you're fine. Anytime after and you're SOL. In terms of background this is my fourth time to this restaurant and the first couple of times it was decent to OK.

So we had guacamole for the table to start and it was good, a little on the tame side, it probably should have had more peppers in it. I had a Sol beer and the rest of the table had pomegranate Margaret which seemed to be a smash. It was my understanding that it was all liquor, which is a good thing. I also had some butternut squash soup and the person next to me had the house salad. The soup was wretched way too salty. When is the city going to stop wit this soup, i think every restaurant has it o the menu.

For entrees we had steak, chicken and pork tacos, with those killer corn tortillas, there was some chorizo dish, and I think taquitos. I didn't particularly like my dish, I had pork tacos. The meat was not that slow cooked and much of it was too tough. It was overwhelmed by the sauteed onion and the condiments were bland. I didn't ask the table about the food because we had the most unfortunate incident where our waitress dumped the second round of drinks on one of my friends. It was a little annoying because I don't think anyone actually said, "I'm sorry." The manager came over and he was of almost no use to us or helpful. I thought the main courses were ok nothing great nothing flashy nothing really good, except the tortillas.

Dessert we had apple empandas, chocolate cake and some cheesecake in my opinion they were sucky and again the coffee was shit. What is the deal with good restaurants and shitty coffee. Is it that hard to brew a decent cup!! I personally think a good cup of coffee can make a meal memorable and it can save a meal from certain death. In this case it just showed me that the restaurant like the meal was just adequate, there was no heart in it.

Overall: go to rosa mexicana for drinks and maybe some appetizers and ambiance. Don't go for a meal! You will no be satisfied. In my DC restaurant review scale it would be: Its in full committee, members like it, but it needs serious amendments to make it work.