If you’re ever stuck eating at a Don Pablo’s, as I was tonight in Orlando in the middle of a thunderstorm that lashed the restaurant windows so fiercely it was as if the building was moving through a giant car wash, the best tip I can offer you is this: although the $7.49, 27-ounce Lotsa Rita margarita seems a better bargain versus the $7.00, 14-ounce Pablo Rita house margarita, it’s not.
When I asked about the difference between the two, my server, Antwon T., revealed that both drinks contain the same amount of tequila. “It saves you the headache from all that ice and sweet-and-sour mix,” he said, recommending the Pablo.
Point taken. Plus the jumbo-martini-style glass of the Lotsa Rita is kind of fruity. But what really sealed the deal was that I was dining early enough, I received the buy-one-get-one-free special, the only caveat of which was that my server said he was required to bring both drinks to the table at the same time, so I appeared to be some sort of lush-in-training with my jumbo glass goblets of alcohol.