Last Friday’s lunch was in the Golden Zone at “ Veintiocho!” We started out with a plan of taking the bus but in the end we ended up in a red truck for the same price. Took a little longer than the bus as the driver had to go all the way to the south end of the Golden Zone to come back to the restaurant on the one way street that runs along the ocean side.
Here you can see some of us seated and ready to order drinks. The last time we were here we sat outside but today it was too sunny and hot.
This is my usual ladies lunch drink….Pina colada.
Lots of us and even more came after. I don’t really think any of us enjoy it as much when the group gets too big. Some of us think it would be better to just sit at smaller tables instead of making the table longer and longer.
It took a while for the drinks and food to show up as the owner was the waitress. This is a pub restaurant and they are really not set up for a group as large as we were.
I ordered an avocado shrimp salad and it was very good.
Cathy had a hamburger and you can see that it is quite rare inside. In the end she sent it back to be cooked a bit more.
Fries, salad and a chicken sandwich (minus the bread) for Sandi.
Chicken fettucini for Maureen. That’s a generous serving of chicken on top and she said it was very good.
Sue had fish and chips….good as well. I tried a piece of fish as Sue is not a big eater and is always happy to share.
Connie has tortilla soup and here you can see her snuggling up to Robyn when I asked her to lean in for a photo.
Put a little more lime in that drink!
What I didn’t realize was that Vientiocho has a an all day happy hour “two for one special.” All of a sudden another pina colada showed up with the comment “ Your drink had a baby!” Yikes, one was more than enough and I could only drink a bit of the second one.
Pat had what we would call a chimichanga or deep fried burrito. This one was filled with shrimp and cream cheese.
Lil and her friend ordered lemon pepper chicken wings which are now on the menu after Lil ordered them a few times and they made them specially for her.
Cathy finally got her hamburger at the end of the meal completely redone but…still very pink. They did explain that the meat is a mixture of pork and beef so it stays quite pink when cooked and is very juicy and good.
So what did we think. The food was good pub fare and the restaurant is a good choice for lunch. However, not for a very large group as they struggled to get the food out and Sandi (who doesn’t mind at all) got up to help deliver drinks to our table. They could have used another waitress and some help in the kitchen. Yes…we did have a reservation so they knew we were coming.
It was mentioned that they have become very popular since they opened and we would all go back just not all together!
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