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RS Days -
11 months ago
After watching several YouTube videos giving great reviews about this place, we decided to include it in our "go-to list" of vegan places during our recent trip to CDMX. We visited it this past weekend and we DO NOT recommend this place. It was the worst experience we had eating in CDMX during our 8-day trip. Why? Because we got sick from food poisoning after eating at this place. We are still in our recovery process and it has been tough.
The first impression we had of the area and surroundings (not that clean and horrid smells) gave us a hint of the possibility of getting sick but we thought it came from the nearby food stalls and not from Gatorta. After ordering, we waited half an hour for our food. While standing several feet from the stall, we watched as the cook poured cups and cups of oil into the fake meat while sautéing it. We thought it was a special order; that maybe someone wanted their food extra oily. But no. Each order was being made this way.
We already had ordered so we decided to try it because we were very hungry. We went only halfway through our food. The flavor was ok but the food was excessively greasy. At night, we noticed we started having very unusal symptoms (we've gotten food poisoning only once and it was in another country we visited years ago). Painful stomach aches/cramps, diarrhea, chills, headaches, hazy feeling, and severe indigestion. It has been almost 5 days since we ate at this place and we are still feeling sick.
After having this experience, we decided to read reviews of Gatorta on different platforms. They all present more than 10 accounts of different people getting food poisoning from eating at Gatorta. And so we wished we had read this before...
To the potential customers: Please consider it MANY times before eating at this place if you want to continue your trip feeling healthy.
To the owner: Step up to your business. Reconsider your methods. Be on point with your cleanliness. Ensure food quality and take care of your clients. You are currently not going in the right direction.