Al's Cafe in the Village

Please keep away. We went there today because we had read a good review in the one of San Diego Dining Guide's written by the publicist himself. They must have paid him handsomely, but no self resecting man should have printed that. It was at least 15 mins before the waitress noticed us. Then we waited another 50 mins for our food to come ... and we had our 11 month old daughter with us. The poor girl was bored to death! As our orders were really simple, fish & chips and funky chicken sandwich, we don't know what took so long. The food was not even mediocre, my chicken sandwich was really tasteless, no seasoning, no ketchup, no mayo, no lettuce ... maybe half a slice of cheese and at most 8 tiny pieces of mushrooms. My husband's fish looked like greased rubber. No A/C either, so it was uncomfortably hot in the dining room. I had to wash my hands in the restroom and it was DISGUSTING!! To top all this lovely experience we also got charged for the fries that should have been included with the sandwich. Really terrible experience :( I would have given negative rating if yahoo allowed me to do so.