My friend and I went to Garcia’s today. I read on a Facebook Vegan group page that there was a vegan menu there and I was eager to try it. I ordered the veggie burrito “flour tortilla filled with your choice of beans, lettuce, grilled...veggies and tomato. Baked and topped with red or green sauce. Served with your choice of beans. $11.49.”
My friend ordered a chicken burrito. Both burritos came with the same brown-ish sauce on top. I asked the waitress about the red sauce that the menu had promised and she said it had meat in it so she gave me this (unidentified) sauce instead. I was surprised but moved on as I was very hungry. I didn’t get to choose the beans, she didn’t ask when I ordered and I forgot to make a point of it so it turned out that the (very few) beans inside were refried. Hopefully a vegan version of refried. The sauce on top and inside was gelatinous in texture and tasteless. There were (NOT grilled as the menu stated) steamed broccoli bits, cauliflower bits, onion and carrot inside. There was no tomato. It was all mushy and flavorless. There was only lettuce on the side. When she brought my dish, the waitress commented about the rice having chicken stock in it so she said that’s why there was no rice on the side… but rice wasn’t supposed to come with it anyway! I was promised beans per the menu but none were there.
Service was very slow. I had to flag down the hostess to tell her no one had come to take our order after 10 minutes. The food took about 25 minutes to arrive. We had to ask three times for more salsa.
I gave the waitress a 50% off coupon when I ordered. At the end of the meal when she brought the check, she said I used a 5 dollar off coupon instead of yours because that’s a better bargain. I didn’t think it through then, but with one dish being $12.75 and the other being $11.49 (Both, by the way, way overpriced-especially the vegan one!), 50% off the second dish as the coupon stated would have given us $5.75. So, she actually dinged us a little. (It’s the principle!!!)
Despite them having a vegan menu (which didn’t match the food I was given), I would not go back nor recommend this place to anyone.More