Caballo Bayo - CLOSED

UPDATED 6/24/2010 - I was by Caballo Bayo and apparently they are out of business.

Back in November I tried and really liked Caballo Bayo (see the review here) and I have managed to get back a couple of times for lunch. On Saturday after a rousing game of mini-golf (yes my life is that darned exciting) we had a group of about 12 or so go to Caballo Bayo for a late dinner. The food was very good, but the service suffered. First let me say that they had a table ready for us and that our server was very friendly and tried very hard; unfortunately she didn't seem to be able to get this big of a table organized and the kitchen did not do much to help her. It probably would have been better if they had assigned two servers to the table. I don't want to get into all of the problems, a lot of it was getting the food out in timely manner to the whole table, getting only partial orders and just not enough planning and follow up. As an example a number of people got fajitas and while that was the food that came out first, the fajitas sat there getting cold while they had to wait for the side plates with all of the accouterments, tortillas and plates on which to eat to arrive at the table, easily solved by making sure these things were out before the fajitas themselves came out. One thing that struck me as funny; the dinner fajitas were very large portions, with a lot of fresh veggies cooked with the meat or chicken, however they were served with just two small flour tortillas each, barely enough to make a dent in the pile of food. More tortillas were brought, but it just seemed to be bad portioning to start with. In the end we all got fed and the food was very good, the portions were large and while a bit put off by the service, everyone ended up happy. Caballo Bayo remains a recommended place to get some good Mexican food, I would just avoid taking a large party on a Friday or Saturday night. They have a website at http://www.caballo-bayo.com/.