A girlfriend of mine from Malaysia is holidaying in Melbourne at the moment so a bunch of us took her to dinner at one of Melbourne’s most popular Mexican restaurants – Mamasita.
It’s located right in the heart of the city and it’s a strictly no reservation restaurant which means whoever could’ve gotten out of the office the earliest on Wednesday had to head straight to the restaurant to put our names on the waiting list. Yes, they are that popular and that busy!
A friend of ours got there just after 5.30pm and he put out names down… In the mean time, we headed across the street to a bar for a couple of drinks. We waited an hour and a half before the restaurant called us to say our table was ready!
When we got to the restaurant there was a huge line coming down the stairs and out on to the street. I’d never been to the restaurant myself so I was extremely curious to see what their interiors were like and what their food was like! I’m glad to say that I wasn’t disappointed…
The restaurant itself is pretty tiny, hence the long queues… They have an extensive tapas-like menu and an even more extensive exotic drinks menu. We could not let the night get away without a couple of orders of sangria and margarita – though I couldn’t drink that much from having to scull my beer (I never drink beer!) from the bar earlier as we’d gotten the call from the restaurant just as our new round of drinks arrived.
We had a combination of everything from chips and salsa to tacos to quasedillas (spelling?!) to the most beautifully marinated prawns and duck. We had to end our meal with dessert of course… Sweet corn caramel pop corn ice cream!
Overall it was a fantastic experience and the food did not disappoint. It certainly proved worth the hour and a half long wait. The other thing I really liked about the restaurant too was despite the fact that they were completely flat out, even after we had finished our mains and dessert, they did not feel the need to rush us out the door even though there was a queue of waiting customers a mile long. They let us digest our food, indulge in a few more drinks, conversation and laughter.
Pleasant night, I thought :)
