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'El Loco', as well as being Spanish for 'locomotive', is more apt here in its' other meaning of 'mad', i.e, you'd be 'crazy' to go here. I went with my wife and we should have taken the hint as soon as we saw the empty tables. Or the encapsulated menus. But we didn't, and regretted it. The menu was scant and bizarrely, main dishes were mainly for two people only. My wife didn't want the same as me for a main (fair enough, surely), so we asked if we could have it made for one. The waitress went off to ask chef, who, in earshot (it's very quiet in an empty restaurant), said: "Well that's blackmail, isn't it". Needless to say, we did not hang around, paying for our beers and walking out with them. Shocking. If Whitstable restaurants are catering more and more to the likes of visiting Londoners used to a much higher level of service, places like this will become even emptier if they can't get the basics right, (like not perhaps insulting your customers for a start).
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el loco
Oh dear
DFL's
Its a shame that "El Loco" cannot meet with the locals let alone the dreaded , DFL's that have kept whitstable alive for decades.. it is also a shame that the locals dont try encourage the rich merchants from London to visit more often and spend there hard earn't cash, it seems snobbery and a misguided delusion that the people of this once quaint little town are some what in a league of their own, unfortunately it would also appear that the vast majority of whitstables inhabitants are actually DFL's that have defected from the ghetto and ended up here!! which is a shame as well when you think that they paid the original house owner money only to find that the locals are in actual fact carrot crunchers that live by the sea, sucking on oysters for all to see..! i think that this little Mexican restaurant along with the OAP's that insist on driving even though they are not capable of boiling a kettle should consider calling it a day.. and perhaps another hairdressers put in it's place, because we all know how Kent women like a nice hair do, blue rinse optional, and perhaps this little town can slowly die, just like Margate and Ramsgate.. nice places to visit...but i wouldn't want to live there!! so to finish, close the over priced and under quality "El Loco" open a trendy wine bar.. this happened in London over 10 years ago.. that failed as well, then when its all ruined open a Mini cab office so the locals can get a cab to somewhere good.. like Canterbury.. :)