26-30 Stoke Newington Church Street,
Stoke Newington,
London,
N16 0LU
0871 971 4402
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Sorry but cant understand the recent reviews. I am regular to this place since last 1 yr and must say they serve margaritas. Also tried their food so many times and it is delicious. Its always busy on weekend as we have to wait in bar for table. But if someone knows about mexican food this is the only authentic mexican restaurant in london. May be these people dont know what to order.:-; well recommended and late night dance not to miss.
Horrible! The nachos were good but that is the only nice thing I can say. The food was bland, sickly and overpriced. Service was appalling, with rude waitress ignoring us and taking ages to bring drinks and food. This was made worse by them having the cheek to add a service charge. Never go here, there are much better Mexican restaurants in London
I love Mexican food and had wanted to try this place for ages. Finally went with my girlfriend the other night and can safely say I will not be going back.
Waitresses were clueless, didn't know what I was talking about when I asked for Jalapeno Peppers! Food arrived promptly but unfortunately the waitress had not laid our cutlery so we had a 3 minute wait while she fetched these.
Things didn't improve when we ate the food. My enchiladas were just a spicy, tasteless slop under which some tortillas appeared to have been buried. My girlfriend's dish was much the same, but with what tasted like HP barbecue sauce smeared everywhere.
When we finally got the bill they had the cheek to add 12.5% service charge to the bill - a pet hate of mine. Needless to say we (begrudgingly) paid (minus the service charge) left promptly and will not be going back.
As another reviewer has said, Stokey has a vast array of good restaurants - avoid Mercado and try somewhere else.
Awful place. Drinks orders were forgotten. Food was overpriced and cold. It took ages to get the staff's attention. A dish came completely different to the menu and when queried was told that they had run out of the ingredients, with no apology or discount. And then, despite having a 'cards available' sign in the window, we were told that they only took cash (with no apology) which then led to a 5 minute schlep to the ATM and back. There are far better places in Stoke Newington and I implore you to go to them.
Great margaritas! Very nice salsa and the fajitas were delicious! We ordered nachos to share on our table and they were very good as well.
Wait staff were pretty attentive. The 2 for 1 cocktails (which they have from 5-8 on fridays, I believe) was a great bargain, just beware...the drinks are not for the faint at heart as they are pretty strong (which we didn't complain about!)
The passion fruit daiquiri was a favorite. Not my favorite Mexican restaurant in London, but would return for happy hour.
Love this place, always great service and even better margaritas. The corn is to die for and the crepes mexicanas simply Divine. Obviously things have changed since the last review on this site below because we have been going there once every two weeks for the past year and a half and have never been let down by the service, the cleanliness or the amazing food. Love it so much I am having my birthday there....which is why I was on the Internet looking for a link.....Just cant imagine how a bad review about this place could ever have been written.
Mercado was possibly the worst restaurant I have ever experienced. Our poor excuse of quesedillas for starters arrived before the drinks, the cutlery was filthy, and when we asked for new cutlery, the staff did not return with replacements.
We ordered chicken enchiladas which were drowned in chocolate sauce and served with chinese style rice, like some sort of bad desert from the eighties! When we complained to the manager, there were no apologies, and when we wanted to leave there were no staff available to even pay for our drinks.
Diabolical! Never again.
Mercado is possibly the worst restaurant I have ever been to. Not only did we wait half an hour to be served but then waited another hour and a half for our actual meal! We were promised a reduction for this and at the end of the night we where still charged the full price! Mercado was completely disorganised! We even got the wrong order!
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