Alioli

The food at Alioli was surprisingly good. I’m not sure what I expected… maybe something a little more touristy? The restaurant is located right on one of the most touristy shopping streets in the Centro Historico of Querétaro, and there are a number of places nearby where they are just hustling the out-​of-​towners to come in. We got lucky. We stepped up to look at the menu of Alioli and a customer sitting inside looked out at us with a big grin giving us two thumbs up, and then pointed to his food before repeating the gesture. As a result of this friendly stranger, we decided to give the place a try. Every part of the meal was great, staring with the saucy amuse bouche and the bread, which was warm and fluffy. We followed that with the croquettes as an appetizer. After the waiter brought these to our table, I was kind of waiting for them to come back with a dipping sauce (common for croquettes), and was a little disappointed when he didn’t. Yet, I was hungry, so I bit into one anyway, and realized that these croquettes don’t need anything else. They’re excellent. We finished with two meat-​heavy entrees. My wife ordered the bull tail, and I had the pork back. Both were prepared so that the meat was so tender it basically melted in our mouths. My only complaint would be in reference to the music. About halfway through our meal, a live musician began playing and we could barely hear one another talk… Yet, in the end, all of this plus drinks came to under $ 40 USD! Great food and great value!

While walking around the centro in search of a place to eat, we saw this place. We read the menu outside and when we peeked inside, a diner gave us the thumbs up, so we figured it was worth a try. The décor is cute, great ambiance. The food was really good– we started with a beautiful and delicious gazpacho amuse bouche, then shared croquettes de jamon, stewed bull, and some other pork dish that I can’t remember what it was exactly. Everything was really good! Would recommend based on food. The service was weird, tho. Not bad — just weird! 4 people came to take our drink orders at different times, the bartender wanted to give us a tour of his bar and show us how «f@ckin sexy» it was, 3 people came to deliver my 1 glass of wine… Not bad service, just a bit awkward. Halfway thru dinner live music started and it was way too loud to talk over, so that was unfortunate. But, food was great and the service was weird but nice enough. I say give it a try!