I’d like to preface this review by saying that I’ve never ever walked out of a restaurant once ordering until Jalapenos but damn, this may have been the worst restaurant I’ve been to yet. Jalapenos is the epitome of a hole in the wall — tiny, a bit dingy and dirty, and the elevator to the restaurant, I half expected it to get stuck in between floors with all the screeching and creaking it was making. However none of that really fazed me, I like hole in the walls, more often than not the food is tasty and the people are friendly — this was not the case here, at least in terms of the food. You know something is off when all the restaurants around the beach are packed for this one. The staff was friendly enough we were brought menus — maybe about 5 – 7 minutes after we set down. We ordered soon after, and the server said the chips and salsa would be coming out shortly. Then we overheard our server telling the next few customers to come in after us that the wait for food would be at least two hours. What?! That wasn’t worth mentioning to us? I doubt we were the last party to make the cut-off, as the few other patrons in the joint before us still hadn’t received their food — but we still thought maybe… Then our chips/salsa and water arrived — oy. Unfortunately, the water was lukewarm — as was the salsa, it was also very watery in consistency. The chips though, were the worst: so incredibly stale and hard. It tasted like cardboard — they were completely flavorless and it seemed like they’d been left out for weeks. At that point we apologized to the server, left a small tip for the chips and excused ourselves. Maybe the actual food is amazing, but we were ravenous and too cautious to brave the wait and potential food poisoning. On the bright side, the prices are cheap — probably the best of Orange Beach, but this is one of those cases where you get what you pay for.
Kayla H.
Classificação do local: 4 Bowling Green, KY
Hole in the wall, but it has amazing yum yums! I ordered the veggie quesadilla with shrimp, and it was AMAZING! ! The owners are really nice too!
