Description: Last week it was my birthday…unfortunately I had forgotten about El Pony’s food quality and I decided to celebrate it there.
First I tried to make reservations so my friends and I could have a good seat to enjoy dinner and then have fun in the dancing floor. When I called the pub a kind woman told me about the reservation requirements. I had to tell her the exact amount of people coming, my guests should spend a minimum of $15 each and I should send her the 50% of my guests’ expenses in advance. I immediately did the maths and said: "there’s no way I could do that." First I didn’t know exactly how many people were coming; it was between 15 and 20. It was an average of $200 just to book for the room. It was not worth the effort.
So I asked her if I could go early and just pick one table, she said it would be totally fine.
I arrived at El Pony at 9pm (really, really early for Uruguay standards) to find that all the tables had been booked in advance!
Unfortunately I couldn’t go anywhere else because I had already told my friends I would be there. So I just picked a place in the bar and asked for a whisky!
At that point I couldn’t believe that all the tables had been booked in advance, it must be the only place in Uruguay where you have to pay a fee in advance to book for your table. It’s unbelievable. However, I was not angry at all, after all, it had been my fault because I hadn’t wanted to send them the money! It’s not that I thought it was expensive, but it was odd.
After an hour…the metre realized that a lot of people were coming for my birthday so she gave in and gave us a table in the vip part of the pub. Although it was a small table we managed pretty well. Again, we couldn’t sit down and explore the menu, we just stuck to the pizzas which you could have while standing around. And once again the pizzas were not to my liking, they were those pizzas taken from the fridge with thin and raw crust but after the third whisky anything would fit.
Even though El Pony doesn’t fulfill all my expectations I still choose it because of its great location and atmosphere. But next year I’ll try to read my reviews first so I remember to choose somewhere else.
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