Piedra Negra

Deciding to have some Tex Mexican food one evening, I settled for Piedra Negra at Beach Road. A simple setting, there is both the options of outdoor and indoor dining.

I started with the Iced Lemon Tea ($4) to cool the day. Unfortunately, this drink turned out to be too diluted.

Down to the food, we started with the Tortilla Espanoloa ($12.30). Think of it as large chunks of fried egg with peppers. Quite good actually.

I also tried the Burrito de Norte ($13.90) which was really hearty with lots of refried beans and minced beef. Very hearty with a slight sour finish.

The Enchilada ($13.90) though came out rather sour.

Overall, food portions were very generous and the price point was very fair. The only downside was the music, that kept blasting in my ear. I asked for it to be toned down a little and it was for a short while, but then it got turned up again for some reason. Thus, it was hard to have any conversation during dinner and I deferred to another place for desserts and drinks.

My colleague and I went to this place for lunch as we both love mexican food... there were only 3-4 tables filled including us so I guess lunch time is a good time to go.

Service was friendly and quick ( maybe cause there wasn't may peeps) and they always filled our cups with cold water.

My friend had the alambra ( or something like that) which was beef cubes with cheese, peppers on a hot plate with some hot spicey sauce and the wraps given separately so that she can fold it up whichever way she wants to. The beef was tender and tasted great. they also provide the green and red Jalepeno sauce .. I didn't use it but my friend said the green one complimented the beef nicely.

I decided to try the Beef burrito and it did not disappoint. For the price of about SGD13, the burrito with spicey fries with a mayo ( which was also slightly spicey) dip... it was quite worth it.

The burrito was hot and dripping with cheese and sauce, the shredded beef was tender and the wrap was crispy. Just thinking about it now and I'm feeling really hungry.

I will definitely go back there again for lunch!

I came here 2 months ago on a Saturday dinner. Everything was great, service was lovely though they were busy. This time, I'm back on a Friday, I'm not too sure why but it's as if the whole group of lovely staff quitted and they were backfilled with a useless, clueless and non service-orientated bunch!

First, we waited 30mins before our jug of Tiger came. The worse thing is that the beer tasted flat. That's pretty much a kick in the guts especially when u look forward to your first beer on a Friday evening. So we tried to send it back, 4 waitress and 3 "oh, I'll check with the bartender /someone" later, only when we offered to pay for the jug anyway, they replaced our beer.

Food was very average, a huge difference from the first time. Chirozo was overcooked, too much cheese in the burrito, made me sick.

Then for another 30minutes, we tried without success to get another jug of beer. No one even bothered to check the 8 tables outside, we literally had to goggle the phone number, call the restaurant inside to order our 2nd jug of beer. I'm glad the waiter found it amusing, until I told him we were thinking of leaving without paying, because I was sure they wouldn't have noticed anyway!

After that, no improvement on the service when I ordered a margarita. 20mins later then would come and ask me if I have received my margarita, when clearly he can see it's not in on my table.

I don't think I'll be back. That's the trouble with most places. Inconsistency.

Went here again tonight and experienced shambolic service, so putting a follow up review to average out my two experiences. Our table had huge delays on food, well over an hour. Several dishes never came out. The staff were clueless and generally unhelpful, refusing to check with the kitchen on how long the food would take. When my flautas finally arrived, there is a huge dollop of sour cream, despite making a clear request for no cheese or cream, and double-triple checking with the waitress. When I pointed it out to the same waitress she says, but it's on top. I told her I have a milk allergy and it will make me sick. She grunts and says I can replace it but it will take a LOONNNG time. So I said well in that case cancel it. Another grunt... Then five minutes later she returns and says the kitchen have removed the sour cream. The did a reasonable job but still quite a few traces of it. Clearly no concept or understanding of food allergies. Granted it was a busy friday night for this relatively new venue, but I doubt the service could have been much worse if they tried.

Apart from that, the flautas (tacos) were actually quite good tasting, and I still like the colourful decorations. Not much change on that front but a huge downgrade on the service score, to the extent I would say "Not Sure" now.