Fried chicken @ Shakeys pizza

I was abit shocked the waitresses here don't speak English, as this place is supposed to be an American do, there were two other Caucasians there when I dined, I wonder if they communicated OK.

Firstly I walked to the counter and asked for " A table for one" and the waitress had to ask the manager to serve me, as she didnt know English!!

Anyway ordered their signature fried chicken and Shakey's famous mojo's which is basically fried potato slices covered in flavoured coating.

They probably could'nt understand what I was ordering, but guessed what I wanted from where I was pointing at on the menu.

The food arrived quicker than I expected, the potato came first.

The potato slices were not greasy at all, it had a crunchy coating, however the coating was not even and it was bland.
The potato was not cooked properly, it was still hard inside. The herbs on the coating were nice though, it reminded me of KFC.
I was rather disappointed because I was expecting a fluffy layer of potato encased in hard crunchy coating, but the potato was hard with a slight viscous texture.

The chicken had a similar coating to the potato, but the chicken was as dry as a tree bark, also oil free, the coating was slightly stronger than the potato slices.

It tasted 85% similar to the fried chicken at the Green Waffle, as both were slightly bland, but the chicken at Green Waffle screamingly tastes much better and juicier too!!
Both GW and Shakeys have the same type of crispy coating, however the one at GW falls off, and the one here dosnt!

Both items did not leave me quenching for water after finishing them.

Requested for the bill, so I said " The bill please", then the girl asked if I wanted a bag,
so I guessed they probably only use Amercan English, so I said "The check please"
and she still didnt get it, so what the hell am I supposed to say.
In the end I opted for sign language!!@!

chicken product shot

 

Shakey's Famous Mojo's

 

Famous mojo's product shot

 

Fried chicken

wheres the menu!!! @ Piel de Toro

 

This restaurant used to be a Western/Thai restaurant, serving lunches during the day and serving drinks at night.
Now it is a Spanish restaurant owned by UnoMas.

 

The set lunches are written on the board outside, as I was walking past, I took a quick glance, and decided to go there for lunch.
There was practically no one in the restaurant, yet it was lunchtime, the restaurants beside it are full or at least half full.
After sitting down, I was expecting a printed menu or some sort of menu, but there wasn’t, the waitress had to list out the set lunches, luckily to her, there was only two set lunches on the menu for her remember!!!
I felt that this was a major letdown, not everyone has a good memory when looking at the menu board.
Without the menu, there is no pricing, or details of what is included, eg drinks, salad, soup.
Since we were the first customers, she was a bit brief with the lunch description, she said “Chicken and Fish” for the set lunch. The brief description the waitress gave was very unhelpful, chicken can be roasted, steamed, same as the fish, is it fried, seared or poached???
In the end ordered the fried chicken with mashed potatos and salmon tataki with parmentier potatoes.
For starters, she said there was soup or salad. I had to ask what soup and salad it was.
Interestingly she said the salad was cabbage but it’s usually lettuce for salads.
During that time, there were two more single patrons that came in and sat on different tables.
The waitress had to verbally tell them what was on the Lunch set, she finally said the full name of the set lunch as written on the menu, although there was a slight improvement, it was still meaningless as the patrons had to ask if the salmon was in batter or just pan-fried.
Wouldn’t it have made life easier if they had a printed set lunch menu, the waitress would have saved her breath, and customers expect to see a menu when they sit down, most people are undecided or have not bothered to look at the board before going in.
Also if you don’t speak English, it could be quite a problem too, firstly the staff are not native westerners so they are not really familiar with the menu, secondly, the non English speaking customers have nothing to point to on the menu order!!
Apart from that the service was OK, they serve all the items at the same time, so everyone at the table can eat at the same time.

Tea to be served in a GLASS!!!!

 

Hot tea in GLASS rather than a tea cup

 

hot coffee in a glass and not a cup

 

The drinks were slightly weird, tea and coffee was included but they didn’t supply cups, it was only GLASS!
The purpose of using cups is that they have a handle because the drinks are hot!!
In this case, I was able to gulp down my tea very fast, because it was warm.
While she was getting the drinks, she had an issue with the coffee machine, she just couldn’t get it working, hence the tea that was poured had to wait.
FOOD!

grounded corncob soup!

 

Sweetcorn soup:
This tasted very milky, and there was lots of sweetcorn in the soup, but it wasn’t sweetcorn, it was grounded corncob.
Salad:
This was lettuce salad, not cabbage as the waitress said, it was drizzled with sauce, tasted how it should.

fried chicken with mashed potato

 

Fried chicken with mashed potato:
The coating on the chicken was sweet, which is weird, but otherwise the chicken was ok, not too dry.
The mashed potato tasted how it should.

salmon tataki with permentier potatoes

 

Salmon Tataki with permentier potatoes:
The appearance of this looked more appetising, the salmon was fully covered in grounded black pepper and served on a bed of sliced potatoes.
The salmon was tender and seared, with lovely peppery coating.
The sliced potatoes were done just right too, not too hard or soft.
Overall, I didn’t feel the food was truly Spanish, I think it just serves as a place for casual lunch without any expectations.

Super rigid napkin!!

 

The tissue napkin on the table was interesting too, it was RIGID like hard cardboard, that it can stand upright.