¿Nos dejamos llevar por la influencia de las redes sociales hasta en lo que comemos?
Do we get carried away by the influence of social networks even in what we eat?
I have been wanting to go to this place for about a year, it is a cafe that specializes in chocolate, my first mistake was not to order something more adjusted to its outstanding product, although my dessert was made of chocolate, I decided to have a coffee since I felt that such a dessert loaded with chocolate and a hot chocolate would be too much.
This place has several branches in Santiago (I won't say its name because, as I said above, I think I should have asked for chocolate to judge its star product). Always, but always its branches are full, there is always a line; And it seemed crazy to me, so I always decided to go to another place, on the weekend I said, it's time to try and I'll wait as long as it takes to enter.
I went with a friend, around 5-6 in the afternoon, we waited around 15 minutes, it really wasn't as long as I thought, when you enter they give you a table, you review the menu and what a surprise you have to stop and go to pay first like Mcdonalds or some fast food place, something that completely shocked me because when you pay they ask you for a tip, TIP and they still haven't served you (10% is the basic thing), this has always bothered me about Santiago de Chile where You practically feel obligated to give a tip, I always hope that they treat me well and I give it but sometimes they are places where they don't even bring you food, you have to stop and go for it, so the attention or service doesn't really exist but hey that's another topic.
We ordered our little things and then they brought it to the table, I ordered a snickers cheesecake that I thought would be amazing but the truth is I give it 6/10. Why? It was tasty, yes, but it didn't have a very different flavor from anything I've tried before left me with the taste of chocolate that I wanted to try coming from a place that specializes in chocolate, plus I found it very expensive for what it was, in size if it could be something to share, but I don't know If $10 is worth that much, a dessert. I didn't expect much from the coffee and it was like a very normal coffee, I'm not really going to complain about the coffee because it wasn't really what I was going to taste.
My friend ordered another coffee and some waffles for dessert, which she told me were very normal, something she could have had at home, so this is too sad, sometimes places are only instagrammable, really, and that's why they become famous The dishes look very pretty at first glance, so people love to take photos, but I don't know if it's worth it, maybe I'll repeat that I didn't ask for its main attraction, which is chocolate, but a dessert anyway $10 should be much better. The truth is I don't think I'll be back, and if I do go back it would be just to try the chocolate; although for those prices I think I can go somewhere better, sorry; I don't want to be critical, but sometimes we get carried away by how beautiful things look in a place and we don't go for what it is, which is to eat something tasty as well as share a pleasant time with friends, family or your partner. If you ask me, I give this place a 6/10 so far, if one day I go back and try the chocolate and I change my mind, I would express it, because I still feel that you have to give things a chance, without being carried away by what we see on social networks, since many times it is not what we expect.