El Nandu

Maybe it was an off night.  Perhaps they were undermanned, or maybe half their kitchen quit a few hours earlier.  

But I'm not understanding the good reviews for this place.  Before I touch on the service- the food was pedestrian.  I had the parrillada- the sweetbreads were good, the sausage ordinary, and the beef wholly lacking seasoning and beefy flavor.  The empanada was good- but definitely not mind blowing in any way.  A good empanada with a nice, thin crispy fried crust.  

Now the service.  Had it not been for my dinner companions, I would have left after the first 40  minutes we waited for our food.  You're grilling steak- that's it.  Then we waited another 40 minutes.  We were repeatedly told that the food takes an hour to come out (which is INSANE) and that our food was coming.  We waited about 1.5 hrs.  

I felt as if I was in the middle of a Kafka novel, we kept being assured our food was coming only to never have it come.  Or, better yet, we were stuck in a Community-like experiment to verify the Duncan principal where my friends were Abeds- content to wait forever- while I was more of a Chang.

If the normal one hour wait time for your food, according to our waiter, isn't enough to dissuade you from coming here- the pedestrian food surely should.

Excellent Empanandas. Very good entrana and Milanesas.
Home wine is good and cheep.
Thursdays live music was fun.
Do not leave without trying the Flan with Dulce de leche.
Great Place !!!

Pretty good! I would return:-) haven't been here and a while but I do have to say that it's a good place to try!