Upscale Italian restaurant with great Cesar salads and gourmet pizzas. Often has live entertainment.
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Playa del Carmen Restaurants and Restaurant Review Italian Mandarina's Café
Mandarina's Café
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User reviews
Average user rating from: 5 user(s)
Bad Experience
The Lasagna is the worst dish I ever had, directly from the freezer.
At the end I have told that American Express it is not welcome, so I tried to pay with other credit card and they pretend to charge an extra 10% just to pay with credit card "A ROBERY"
LOVE THIS PIZZA
Best pizza in Mexico!! Get it to go by the slice
and its a lot cheaper!!
Mandarina's...AVOID THIS PLACE...an overpriced tou
This place LOOKS
GREAT...fabulous location, beautiful lighting, great environment, young, beautiful staff...BUT
IT's ALL AN ILLUSION. I have the opportunity to eat all over the world...in the greatest cities
and smallest towns...on average 4 times a week or over 200 times per year. I would put this
restaurant and my experience this evening in the worst 10 restaurant experiences of this past
decade.
My husband, two daughters and I went for a fun night out while on vacation in Playa.
First I will detail the positives, as we discussed them tonight...
Great location...nice
lighting (but so dark you couldn't read the menu or the bill)...good music (but too loud to have
any type of conversation).
..good wine list.
Now on to the areas that need
improvement...
the service was incredibly slow...we were there for almost 3 hours and this did
not include dessert...it was at least 10 or 15 minutes between any request and when that request
was honored...wine, bread, another soda, the check...you name it...it took that long
the music
was SO LOUD we couldn't enjoy it or each others company. we asked them to turn it down and they
did, albeit only slightly.
my daughter's pizza and my husband pasta with lobster were fair in
terms of quality as was my beef carpaccio...another appetizer that I ordered was out for the
evening...also the portions were very small.
lastly, as noted by another patron, the bill was
wrong...we were charged for something we dididn't order, something we sent back because of how
it was prepared (a milkshake with yogurt) and then there was a 150.00 peso charge for the kitchen
and the bar that was only disclosed when the bill came.
I do not recommend this place...often
I will give a restaurant a second chance...not this one...not enough redeeming qualites with
either the food or the service.
LOVE THIS PLACE
WE STUMPLED UPON THIS PLACE IN
2001... PIZZA & CHAMPAIGNE...THAT SAYS IT ALL...WE WERE IN THERE... THE NICEST &
PRETTIEST PEOPLE IN PLAYA...NOT TO MENTION THE FOOD & DRINKS... THEN WE MET MATIUS, THE
OWNER...HE INVITED US TO BE HIS GUESTS FOR NEW YEARS EVE... IT WAS THE TIME OF OUR LIVES...WE
HAVE CELEBRATED THE NEW YEAR SINCE... WE ARE FRIENDS FOR LIFE... WE WILL BE BACK THS YEAR, A LIL
LATE, JAN 17... CAN'T WAIT... SEE YA THEN... BE THERE OR BE
SQUARE............................................................SARAH AND ROB
Rip Off!! Read your check!
My husband and I had a nice small pizza (4 slices) and 2 salads, 2 drinks for 54.00. When the
check came the waiter said his services had not been added but there was a 14.00 additional
restaurant charge. We complained and refused to pay restaurant fees! The young waiter aplogized
and said he agreed that it was not right. The manager also agreed to take it off our check. We
were getting ripped off. The new experience we learned here is to look at your check before you
pay. Unfortunately we find errors the majority of the time.

