Friday, February 26, 2010

Decided to give J.Cruz another try, I was walking past it anyway so it wasn't as if I was going out of my way specifically for it. There was a big queue again, this time I decided to stay, to brave it to see what all the fuss was actually about. The queue look as if it would take about an hour to clear giving the amount of people in front, how busy it was inside, the ordering time, the eating time and paying the bills. Fortunately for me my luck had just changed, a waiter came out asking if there were any groups of four, may not sound like much as I was on my own but they were looking to people to go in a table of four had just been made. As I was on my own I went up followed by the person behind me who was also alone, then a couple behind us, we all went in but had to wait whilst the waiter clarified some things. I was at the front and the waiter said we had to wait a minute, the table for four had already gone, Chilean organisation coming through again maybe. But soon after that a table for two was made, fine for me and the person behind me in the queue as we were both alone. We were escorted to our seats, I had no idea who he was, we had just been put next to each other and were both equally as excited to see what all the fuss about the chorrilliana from J.Cruz is all about. We ordered single ones that they called half's, and some Kunstmann beer. They were taking a long time to come out, seeing all the dishes past by our table was making us both very hungry, they all looked massive, like a whole plate filled with chips, then onions and chunks of meat. When ours finally came out they looked like dwarves in comparison but still huge,it was a half plate but was easily still enough to satisfy any one's hunger. To look at it didn't look to appealing, it was the crap chips that they seem to have everywhere here, onions that could have done with been nicely caramelised and beef that wasn't too bad but I would have liked it a little less cooked, plus the only sauce to have with it was aji, I could have murdered for some ketchup or some mayonnaise. It didn't taste all that great either, it was okay but by no ways special and I cant say that I would recommend it to anyone, it was a good experience but don't know if it was worth it, at least I can say that I have had one now. Also it was quite pricey, the half with a beer came to $5800 pesos, the beer alone was $1000 pesos which was actually really cheap for a kunstmann, but $4800 pesos for the chorrilliana when I saw on the way in a restaurant window a sign for one that costs $6900 but is a large one, has sausage and a variety of meats on it and comes with a pitcher of beer!

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