![]() It has managed to attract a loyal clientele and built a robust business in the mid-section of the city - and with good reason. Riviera Maya (that's the correct spelling, Trip Advisor somehow has the name entered into its database with an incorrect spelling) has proven the food snobs wrong. They acted as if it were beneath their dignity to visit yet another Tex-Mex restaurant serving the same old, same old Tex-Mex food we can get at any number of chains in the city. They wrote articles asking if the city really needs another Tex-Mex place (curiously enough, they never ask the same question about the astonishing number of "burger" and grilled-meat sports bars in Little Rock that just continue to open one on the heels of another to satisfy our local old boys' appetite for flesh). When this restaurant first opened, food critics in local newspapers were very snooty about it. It's solid, reliable, good at what it does. But because so many of us have long known and loved Tex-Mex food as "real" Mexican food - and that's understable, given that one of the states bordering us on the west is Texas, the city also has a plethora of Tex-Mex restaurants, and Riviera Maya is one of the good ones. Due to the influx of new citizens from Mexico and Central America, Little Rock now has a wealth of very good authentic Mexican (and some Central American) restaurants. Not to mention the staff is all Hispanic and they accused two white female patrons saying it was our fault not theirs.we were shocked and offended none the less.Along with a bunch of locals of my generation, I remember when the iconic Tex-Mex restaurant Brownings in the Heights WAS Mexican food in Little Rock, and when those of us who frequented the place and raved over its cheese sauce (an Arkansas fixation no matter where it's served) and strange dry, tubular enchiladas doused in a canned "Mexican" brown sauce thought we were eating the very best of Mexican food. Harrassed by upper management based on a mistake by waiters. You and your friend dont pay the two tickets you can could no longer be served here and also could not come back to the restaurant ever again. However the next day while being in their the original waiter said their was a problem with your tickets and I was like how is that our FAULT? We offered to pay out with you so then he proceeded to call management a d she told him that if. So after our tickets were brought we signed them left generous tips took our copies a d left. if he wanted us to pay and he was like no it's ok. Our tickets were transferred to another waiter because our original waiter had to leave.we did offer to pay out with our original waiter infact we ask him 3 times. We used to eat there alot.however never again. So was there to celebrate a friends birthday.
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