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    Burger with sweet potato fries
    Cali S.

    Fantastic dinner at Gabe's during Thanksgiving week while visiting family in Villa Rica! Some things to note - reservations aren't really a thing. You can call ahead to leave your name and party size, but quick seating is not guaranteed. On a Tuesday night, we had to wait about 10 minutes for a party of six. The atmosphere is very nice - good lighting with the bar taking the center of the restaurant. I believe they also have a few event spaces attached! Our server, Gabe (not to be confused with THE Gabe) was great, able to make recommendations and friendly for the entirety of our meal. We started with the Cajun egg rolls, oysters, and calamari with the house bread and butter. The table enjoyed all the appetizers, with the Cajun egg rolls being the hit! For dinner, we ordered the ribeye, pork chop, seafood étouffée, burger, and shrimp pasta. Everything was outstanding. The étouffée and ribeye, in particular, were fantastic. I don't like seafood and I could eat an entire bowl of the étouffée because of the flavor alone. The ribeye with Demi glacé was exceptional. For dessert, we chose the bread pudding and the cheesecake. The cheesecake is a whole mini basque cheesecake that comes with a seasonal sauce topping. It was a bit dry, even with the crème anglaise. The bread pudding was a delight! It came out piping hot, swimming in warm crème anglaise. I finished almost the whole thing with my family, to my stomach's protest. It was that good! With just one meal, Gabe's became a local favorite for my family and we will definitely be back!

    Quiche- great flavors and piping hot.

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    Great food and good atmosphere. Good variety of food choices and friendly staff. One of our favorites places to go close to home.

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    Great food! Love the new location! The decor and atmosphere is wonderful. More importantly, the service is excellent!

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    I stopped by yesterday with a buddy to grab something to eat while we were out on our bikes. We…read morewere pretty much ignored by the staff and ended up having to flag someone down. Once we were finally able to order the food came out pretty quickly but it wasn't very good and my friends order was incomplete. Literally every time we needed the server we had to wave her down. The place reeks of stale beer and cigarette butts. The ashtrays were not emptied and the bartenders seem to be more interested in doing shots and talking to each other than taking care of customers. The place strikes me as a hub for local power drinkers and bar flies and unless your in the 'click' of being a regular there then they don't really care if you're taken care of or not. When I was ready to leave I literally couldn't get the server's attention for my tab and just left cash on the table and left. Over all the experience sucked and we will never be going back. 0 stars

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    First things first. How can your restaurant name be "El Tapatio", yet, you don't carry Tapatio hot…read moresauce!? So I've been coming through here for years, and I've never tried this place but I made it a point to today. I think I would have been better off walking to Burger King like I usually do. The place is bigger than it looks. Typical Mexican decorations and a ton of TVs. My bar spot was sticky tho. I sat in the corner of the bar. Some server came and brought chips and salsa and set it two seats over from me. I mean are they for me or? Well, they're still sitting there cuz I dunno. She didn't even acknowledge me. We were actually at 4 stars when I sat down and was greeted by the bartender, but here I am sitting, going on 40 minutes wanting to order another round of food as she makes drinks and waits on other patrons. Maybe she thinks my money ran out. I ordered a vodka Red Bull to start, and then I ordered a "Mezcalito", that was Mezcal and grapefruit soda, with supposedly a black lava salted rim. Nope, jist mezcal and soda tossed into a glass, no salt, even after ASKING for it, but they have plenty for margaritas, and micheladas, even chamoy. Its amazing how much effort she's putting into these cocktails for other people. I do know it's heavily influenced by locals, I talked to a really nice gentleman who came here with his wife every Friday night before she passed last january. Super nice fella. Oohhhh, If the bartender only knew I was a 40% tipper, eh? I won't be tonight. And I'm giving it about 5 more minutes before I pay my bill and walk out of here and go order food across the street. I ordered a "Texas" taco salad, that apparently had steak, chicken and shrimp. It was ok, but the white queso they plated it on is horrible. And it's a lot smaller than I had thought, or what the picture shows, henceforth me STILL sitting here wanting to order more food. They don't have tapatio, or Cholula if that's your thing. They have valentino, you know that hot sauce you put on churros. They don't have cucumber vodka, which really isn't a surprise, but they don't have mint either. The bartender told me people ask for mojitos all the time but they don't have the stuff to make them. Well whaddya know, she finally came back and checked on me after all this time. I'd say the greater of 25 minutes? And I ordered some soup so we'll see how that turns out. I really shouldn't have, but I'm still hungry after my little salad. I just ordered a single shot of Titos over ice, and she took it up on herself to make me another cocktail. I'm not drinking it. I'm seriously thinking about going to one star. As I still sit and wait for my soup. So my Caldo del Mar finally came out. I CAN say that it was piping hot, but I can also say that the flavor of the broth left a lot to be desired. I actually had to ask for probably an entire lime, and even put salt and pepper in it to flavor it up a bit. It had some tilapia and shrimp in it, and broccoli and cauliflower? I understand the carrots but that was strange. Anyhow, I just paid $86 before tip to let myself know that I'll never be back. It was okay, but just not good enough to go back. Looks like I'll be marching up to Burger King tomorrow! If you KNOW Mexican food, then you know this isn't good "Mexican food" if you DONT know, then you'll THINK it's good Mexican food. It's not. ***DISCLAIMER*** This pure, uncut, honest review is federally protected under Federal Law by way of Bill #EO14149. Removal or alteration of this review by Yelp and/or their affiliates without Expressed consent by it's author is strictly prohibited by FEDERAL law. VIolators will be prosecuted, and litigation imminent.

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