Dinner at Cafe Atlantico is no picnic

I found that Cafe Atlantico didn't live up to all the praise lavished upon it by Phyllis Richman of the Post.

>> I found that Cafe Atlantico didn't live up to all the praise lavished upon
>it
>> by Phyllis Richman of the Post.
>
>Same here.

There was mention in the Post today the the chef/owner of Cafe Atlantico went back over to Jaleo, which he also runs, to revive the cooking there.

Someone wrote:
>Forget Washingtonian?  Cafe Atlantico is in zagat.com's top 30 DC
>restaurants.  If zagat.com says its good, its good, and Cafe Atlantico
>is defintely one of the best spots in the city.

Then why is the food so poorly prepared?  I went there once this fall after hearing so much about it, and I was pretty horrified.
--scott

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Someone wrote:
>Forget Washingtonian?  Cafe Atlantico is in zagat.com's top 30 DC
>restaurants.  If zagat.com says its good, its good, and Cafe Atlantico
>is defintely one of the best spots in the city.
>
>

This is from my friend:

That is incredible.  Just incredible!  I agree with Scott.  I was horrified. I hated having to hand over so much money for such slop.  I felt like crying while I was counting out all that money.  The food wasn't even OK.  It was slop.  I definitely did not enjoy anything about my meal and neither did my friend.  We ended up just having to laugh about it and we chalked it up as a learning experience.  It was a very unpleasant eating experience.  I can cook much better than that and I'm not a good cook.

Lisa