Charrovida - Tucson

The Honey and I are trying all the vegan places in town, and since it's a bit of a hike from where we are, we've never made it to CharroVida. I'm glad we finally made it! I don't know what's wrong with many places here, but they treat you like a leper if you come within an hour of closing. I was a server back in the day so if a customer came in, we'd welcome them in and advise accordingly. We asked to sit outside and were pleasantly accommodated. Ever (yes, that's their name! was our server providing outstanding service, happily answered my hundred questions, and was genuinely welcoming. So the service was great how about the food? O M G O M G O M G !!! We got orders of yucca street fries and one hola hemp tamal to share, and we both got the three sister taco plates with mushroom tacos. The flavors were indescribably yummy, the food tasted fresh like they harvested the veggies that morning! I was a bit dubious about the Hola Hemp tamale, but I got over myself! The only small ding is that the yucca fries had salt on them when we asked for none. We're both salt sensitive so any added salt is a challenge when we dine out. Sorry, no pics, we gobbled up the deliciousness and really didn't have an insta worthy pic to post. Suffice it to say, we also came home with leftovers! I think we found our new fave restaurant! Update: Sonoran Restaurant Week. The chef may have had an off night, or perhaps it was because we came an hour before closing (an unfortunate theme in Tucson , but our tortillas were cold, the food tepid, and after I specified no salt on the yucca fries, there was a pile of that and pepper on the bottom of the serving bowl. Please do better! You were so promising on our first foray at CharroVida, please keep up the good work.

Absolutely loved the food here! Fantastic! Mushroom tacos are so delicious!

Nicole was the bartender and she needs some customer service training. Food is fabulous service is poor at best. Seems a lot of others feel the same.

We had dinner reservations tonight. Arrived on time, were seated at 6:30 and no one ever came to our table. We saw servers go to two different tables 2-3 times but no one came to our table. No one even made eye contact with us. They didn’t even bring water. It was not busy, there were plenty of open tables only 4-5 tables were full. Waited for 10 minutes then decided to leave. Person at the front didn’t acknowledge us as we walked out. So sad. Charro Vida, do better.

I ate here several years ago and it was very good. Today I took a friend there for brunch. We were seated right away, but it took 10 minutes for water. The OJ did not come until we asked again when the breakfast was served. I ordered my breakfast without cheese but it came with cheese. I did not want to send it back so I could avoid another extended waiting. Our breakfast were extremely salty. A bite of the scrambled eggs tasted bitter before of too much salt. When we were ready to pay, we could not find our waiter. I went to the front desk to see whether I could pay there. Nope. The hostess asked many questions about what our waiter looked like. Well, I could not remember all details she needed so she asked me to go back to the table to keep waiting. Finally another lady came by and asked what we needed and she was able to take my credit card.