Right across from the Radisson and the Riu Resorts on the high rise strip in Aruba, is the Tex Mex restaurant and bar Senor Frogs.  With loud music, a large outdoor seating area and free balloon animals from their resident clown, it seemed like a good idea for a kid friendly restaurant.  They didn’t seem to have high chairs, so our daughter ate in her stroller. 

Wendy ordered the Taco Salad, $12.95USD.  It was supposed to be a tortilla layered with shredded cheese, lettuce, refried beans, pico de gallo and sour cream.  It optionally came with chicken.  She didn’t opt for it, but it came with it anyhow.  Fixing that seemed to really put our waiter out.  Not only that, but despite the description on the menu, there was only lettuce with a microscopic amount of sprinkled cheese and ranch dressing.  Oddly enough, there were celery and carrots sticks, too.  No beans.  When we pointed this out to our waiter he acted like we were making a big deal out of nothing.  I’m sorry, but lettuce doused in copious amounts of ranch dressing is NOT a Taco Salad!  Also, not a decent dinner.  After Ian started complaining rather loudly, eventually a manager came over who arranged for some beans…  Not a great experience. 

Ian ordered the Mixed Fajitas, $16.99USD.  They were described as corn tortillas with chicken breast, jack cheese and red sauce topped with sour cream, black olives and onions.  Actually, it turned out they were flour tortillas, there were only 3 of them, and they were TINY.  Definitely not worth the $16.99USD. 

Ian had a Senor Frogs, to go along with his free shot.  (Every adult gets one, plus there was music trivia with a shot as the prize).  It had rum, and lime and was very sweet.  It was a daiquiri like frozen mixed drink and was good, but not good enough to wash away the taste of the rest of the experience!

The restaurant may have seemed kid friendly at first, but definitely isn’t.  There are bar stools that sport rear ends on them.  One of them sports, “Sex Machine” on it.  While we were there, one adult got a balloon hat with two dogs having sex.  Now, all this was, of course, thankfully lost on our toddler, but we wouldn’t have been very comfortable had she been, say, 10-years-old.

We obviously should have paid more attention to their sadly prophetic slogan on the back of the free bead necklaces they had out to everyone.  They say, “If our food and service doesn’t meet your standards, please lower your standards.”