Hacienda, Fairfield

May 16, 2010 by glutenshmooten

This is a little Mexican restaurant in Fairfield that has been around for many years. Very casual setting with “Mexican” decorations (hats hanging from the ceiling, pinata style animals hanging up) – this is not really a place you come to for the surroundings! The service was variable depending on who served you. One lady, who looked like she was the owner, was a bit scary when she told us very abruptly that the oven is very full and our meals are going to be a long long time. As we recovered from the shock of how she said it and not being offered a bowl of chips while we waited another waiter came over and said the same thing a little nicer and offered us some chips and dips whilst we waited.

The meals didn’t take that long to arrive in the end, we had combinations of veg and meat fajitas. Excuse the poor photos, the light was pretty bad in there and didn’t help the poor iphone with it’s photo quality.

The food was nice – huge servings, you want to be hungry when you go here! Most of the menu is gluten free, although they have a weird way of showing it – you have to ask for the gluten free list that tells you what is gluten free then compare it to the main menu. Not sure why they don’t do what most other restaurants do and just mark “GF” on the normal menu.

Overall nice food, not too expensive but not amazing value for money either, strange service that leads to not a very welcoming atmosphere – a good place to check out if you’re in the area but I don’t think I’d go out of my way to go there again.

75 Station St, Fairfield

Hacienda, Fairfield, 2.0 out of 10 based on 1 rating