After attending the launch of Tastes of Singapore at Selfridges last week (photos here), I hopped over to Wahaca in Westfield to attend a Qype event – a tasting of the new dishes on their autumn/winter menu. I’ve been to Wahaca before when, in a nutshell, the food was hit and miss and the service wasn’t to my taste. As I hadn’t been impressed by my first visit (and I had blogged it), I wanted to get my thoughts down on this recent visit. This tasting brought their main dishes to my attention: there was a gorgeous mole and a wonderful pipian. The fish tacos were also delicious. There were other dishes that were less successful, though – the vegetable burrito and sauteed greens come to mind and I wasn’t enamoured with their pork pibil taco. Still, it was enough for me to give them another try and to order from outside the street food section of their menu.
Just a few photos from the night:
The full set of photos (along with descriptions and thoughts) can be found in this Flickr photoset. Thanks to Chris for organising this event and it was great meeting some new faces: Kelsie and Mel from Travels with My Fork and Luiz from The London Foodie.
Wahaca
1074 Westfield Shopping Centre
London W12 7GB
Fri, 9 Oct, 2009 at 14:03
really want to try making mole – can’t decide whether I love it or hate it
Sun, 11 Oct, 2009 at 14:12
I recently visited Wahaca for the first time. It was lunchtime on a tuesday, with only a third of the restaurant filled with diners. Their food was decent, but we had to wait on average about 30-45 minutes each for the food. I was so annoyed, first because Westfield is one of the places where I’ve had immaculate service, but also when the place isn’t even full – there wasn’t an excuse! I mean, service was still good, but I reckon their kitchen was slacking. Do you think their food is good enough to excuse all the wait?
Sun, 11 Oct, 2009 at 16:13
foodrambler: I wasn’t fond of it the first time I tasted it but the version at Wahaca I liked very much!
tofufa: Woah – 30-45 minutes?! I don’t think there’s much that warrants such a wait. Did you complain? I would have.
Sun, 11 Oct, 2009 at 22:34
Hi Su-Lin,
Thank you for mentioning me in your posting, it was so lovely to meet you at Wahaca. I hope we will be exchanging some more foodie stories in the months to come…
Lx
Thu, 15 Oct, 2009 at 14:03
Luiz: Ah, no prob and I’m sure we’ll run into each other again, sooner rather than later!