The leafy porch garden at Restaurante Bella Roma in El Cangrejo is pleasant to sit in and has an overall nice atmosphere and presentation. This, along with the waiters in vests and bow-ties, tricked us into thinking that the food would be as charming. In reality it turned out as kitsch as the fake grape tree with blinking lights in the middle of the patio.

It took about forty minutes for the food to come, and only that quickly because Rob went to investigate, and the waiter brought it out promptly, like it had been sitting there while we sweated in the midday sauna, starving. And what a disappointment it was. My salad was basically a chopped-up half of a tomato, half of a pig and half of a block of cheese put on a bed of day old iceburg lettuce on a giant serving platter. We stared at it for a few minutes not knowing where, and if we wanted to, start. Cailey wanted me to quote her in saying that the ham in the salad tasted like “a pig’s toe.” Casey bestowed his fish wrapped in tin foil with an F- without finishing. The pizza was ok, but very salty.

The bill came with Hershey’s Kisses, maybe to leave us with a nice impression, and that’s great, I wouldn’t have wanted to go back to work and write this blog with the taste of pig’s toe in my mouth. On Monday I’m going to Jap Jap.

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Filed under: Reviews on January 20th, 2008