My evening started off with a soggy starter and poor service. My main meal was ok but nothing more than that. Unfortunately I won’t be recommending this restaurant ;(
Damian W.
Place rating: 2 Gt Lon, United Kingdom
I took my daughters and one of there friends there tonight, the starter we all shared was nachos and they were very soggy like they had been microwave. The mains meals were ok. One of the male waiter had a strong smell of B.O. Finally as we were leaving, the waiter barged past my daughter and the door slammed on her arm leaving her very upset. It’s such a shame this restaurant has gone down hill was a nice place to eat in.
Yinnie C.
Place rating: 1 London, United Kingdom
It’s kitsch. It’s got Mexican hats and a free tequila shot with the set menu! But that’s about it. I like the hats. Firstly it’s not the good tequila. Does that sound super snobby? Like there are some really nice tequilas out there now– where you don’t slammer it like a student!(Wahaca even laces there hot chocolate with one) but tequila rose? That milky strawberry milkshake one that is just a gimmick and it’s horrid. Like I have bad memories of this because at 18, tequila rose sounds well exotic. It’s not and I’m not proud of my 18 year old self for drinking it everytime we went club sushi! Also sure the set menu sounds super value, I left 75 percent of the meal. Hence the star. It was salty– maybe it was a preserved one? I don’t know. I just didn’t enjoy my meal. The cocktails were watered down and they don’t do hard shakes. Even though I asked. They had an Oreo milkshake– just add a bit of bourban in. No?
Pammie R.
Place rating: 1 Dartford, United Kingdom
Argh, I’m just disappointed by you, Café Mojito. I’ve lived in Bexleyheath a long time and have bussed it and driven it past this restaurant probably hundreds of times. Yet the cheap-looking cartoonish font and bright displays always put me off actually going in. It just didn’t look like a decent place to eat, and I’m sad to say I was right on first impressions. We visited for a friend’s birthday because they were doing a deal where if you paid a deposit, brought the email they sent you and five people ordered from the set menu of a starter, main, dessert and tequila shot for £19.95, the birthday boy/girl would eat for free. Sounds like a nice birthday present for the lucky person and a pretty good deal for everyone else, right? The set menu was nothing short of gross. I had a prawn cocktail for a starter which was smothered in sauce. I like sauce, but when you finish your starter and feel physically sick because of the richness of it, that’s a bad sign. The prawns were cold and tasted frozen and there wasn’t nearly enough lettuce in it. Just prawns, sauce, like three leaves and then more prawns and sauce shoved into the bottom too. For a main, I ordered swordfish, wild rice and salad, which sounded nice and fresh on the menu but was anything but. When they brought the swordfish out, it was huge and nestled on a bed of spicy veg. A LOT of spicy veg. And then they brought out another plate just covered in rice with a bit of salad on the edge. I’ve never seen so much food. You definitely can’t say you don’t get value for money here in terms of quantity. But the swordfish was a bit overcooked, the veg was too spicy, the rice too dry and the salad just tasted like your normal ASDA bagged variety. I left over half of it, and I HATE leaving food. Then for dessert, I got the chocolate fudge cake. Which tasted like it hadn’t been anywhere near fudge. It was light and fluffy, I’ll give them that. But that’s not what you expect from a chocolate fudge cake. Where was the oozy moist dense goodness? It barely tasted of chocolate. And it came with a blob of squirty cream on the side. Squirty cream has its place, but it shouldn’t be anywhere near a hot ‘fudge’ cake. After 30 seconds, it had melted into a sad little puddle. Food clearly isn’t Café Mojito’s strong point. So we turned to the cocktails. It’s called Mojito, so it’s gotta be good, right? Wrong. I had a sip of their Mojito and it tasted watered down. It also came with cubed ice instead of crushed so it didn’t have that beautiful fresh taste and was a bit warm. Every cocktail they brought out was see-through, a lurid colour and tasted SO sugary. And their virgin cocktails are nothing short of ABOMINABLE. I was driving and so was off the alcohol and they had four drinks without alcohol. Four. Out of about 60 different types. Already not very impressive. I went for the Virgin Peach Bellini, being used to that fresh peach taste and sparkly finish and I’ve never had such a disgusting drink placed in front of me. For a start, it was bright orange. Like Tizer. And it tasted of syrup. So sickly sweet it hurts my teeth. It bore NO resemblance to peach, bellini or even a basic drink. I wish I’d stuck with water. When it came time to pay, we ran into another problem too. You know that really good deal they offer for birthday boys/girls? Yeah, it turns out that you need to print out the email and bring it in with you for ‘administrative’ purposes, they won’t accept the email on your phone like everywhere else so my friend ended up having to pay full whack for her meal. AND they added on a £2.50 service charge for each person so after paying for the cost of our food, the bill was still over £20 down and we had to all dig into our coppers to pay this extra charge. I wish I knew what it was for because I didn’t see a lot of service going on. All in all, if it weren’t for the company I would have refused to pay and walked out. Just bad on every single level.
