Valentino’s for lunch.

Wednesday is our ladies lunch day and this week’s choice was Valentino’s.  It overlooks the water and is situated at the very south end of the Golden Zone at the north end of the malecon.

Valentino’s (picture off the net) is a well known night spot for those of you who like to party. 

We were here for lunch!

We took an old Cerritos bus today which got us to Valentino’s as it turns left here and does not travel along the Malecon. 

We are on the opposite side of the street and must cross four busy lanes of traffic.

Made it and Valentino’s awaits.

Looking south along the malecon…..what a view. 

Some of the ladies were already waiting for us.

Eddie and Marion chat.

We peruse the lunch menu and order drinks.  Eddie and Regina. 

Now you can see that some of us have drinks and some of us don’t.  The drinks trickled out over about a 20 minute period and we had to keep reminding them that drinks were missing. 

This is Angie.  I hope I look like this when I reach my 8th decade.  Hell….I don’t think I look that good now.  She is beautiful now….imagine what she looked like 50 years ago!

Jeannette gets her vino tinto….finally!  Jeez….were they pressing the grapes or something.

My chicken enchiladas with poblano sauce.  It was very good.

The food came out in relatively good time compared to the drinks which were very slow except…..Johanna’s order was wrong and some ladies had trouble getting cutlery. 

Marion’s delicious shrimp.

Regina joined us today and she had the shrimp as well.

Poblano chilaquiles shared by Ruth and Diane.

Jeannette’s lunch was horrible last week so this week she cut her losses and ordered a hamburger.  Good.

Enchiladas rancheros.

Across the street is MacDonald’s and it has an …Auto-Mac or ….drive through!

Now for the bill.  Those of us who ordered mixed drinks were stunned at the price.  90 pesos for a pina colada….heck my lunch cost less than that.  Note to self…if I come back….don’t order a mixed drink.  Beer was 25 pesos. 

So what was the consensus.  The setting overlooking the water is stunning, the food was very good, the mixed drink prices ridiculous and the service was not good.  However we did agree that we’d rather have crummy service than crummy food!  Yes, we were a large group but we were the only ones in there and it shouldn’t have been a problem. 

Lunch was done and we split up to do this and that.  I wanted to go to the store that Richard and Carol had recommended to buy frozen tuna.  It was located just next to MacDonald’s and I bought a flat, flash frozen l KG. package of tuna for 112 pesos.  Should be good.  Jeannette and I went back to wait for the bus with the other ladies and Diane decided to dash to the store for tuna as well.  Everyone boarded the bus and Sharen said she’d take my frozen fish home for me as Jeannette and I were going to stop along the way.  Jeannette was looking a small leather wallet and I needed to pick up my repaired diamond ring at El Delfin.  Jeannette didn’t find what she wanted but my ring was ready and it is beautiful once again.  A new small diamond to replace the one I lost, claws checked and the ring cleaned for $500 pesos.  A bargain.  Next year I’ll bring other jewelry for sizing and repairs. 

Jeannette and I hopped an old Cerritos bus home and it was a wild ride.  Connie would have bailed and got on another bus!  He was really flying and I don’t want to know how fast he was going.  Add to that the fact that the driver was so short he could hardly see over the steering wheel.  Ah Mexico!