Los Lagos - Hermosillo

The view from the terrace to the golf course is great !! This Restaurant is in the Los Lagos residential community, the name of the restaurant is Calefate. The service was good. Not excellent. They took for ever to have the check ready. The food...was good specially the pulled pork tacos!!!! Also the grilled tune steak with habanero sweet sour sauce was very good. The terrace works great at this time of the year. Otherwise is to hot. I would be back next time in Hermosillo.

To start, this restaurant is not called Los Lagos. That is the community and golf course in which it is located. It is called Calafate and for this reason, it is listed twice in trip advisor (this one, and the one under it's real name)....I would recommend you visit both listings as the reviews are nearly opposite of each other. I live in Hermosillo and have been to Calafate a couple times. It is a clean, modern looking restaurant with impressive views of the golf course. The size and design is very much like what you find at Bermejo's (another restaurant in town). It's nice. The service is hit and miss. As other reviewers have noted (here and on the other review), some staff are quite friendly and attendant, while others are rather less so. This is not an inexpensive restaurant, so that annoys me. Customer service in Mexico is abysmal by American standards. That's to be expected at most places. But not restaurants at this price point. As an example, on my last visit, just securing a menu took about minutes. We were the only table in the restaurant at the time and the staff were most entertaining themselves at the bar. The food was the most disappointing part about the restaurant. This too is a common trend among nicer restaurants in Hermosillo. Good staff and a nice looking restaurant just doesn't cut it. The kitchen is just woefully incompetent. From menu design, to execution. The Argentinean' salad offered is lettuce and a few tomatoes on a plate with olive oil. They cut a head of lettuce in half an put it on a plate and call it a salad. Certainly they could have found someone that could do better than that? I had the salmon. It was undercooked (ie raw in the middle) and smelled less than fresh (salmon should not smell fishy). One of my dinner guests had the Chilean bass, also undercooked. The rest of the dishes at my table were equally unimpressive. The restaurant offers a lunch buffet at pesos (which is roughly dollars). It doesn't look bad, but the price seems a bit steep for what is offered. Most of the entrees will run a but higher when you add in the sides. The sides are not included with the overpriced meals. That's also annoying as the price of the meal averages around dollars when you add in the sides. I will say however, that the side of potatoes and asparagus were really quite excellent. Overall I would not recommend this restaurant. They are just consistently bad with their food, but at prices that are higher than most other fine dining restaurants in town. For this venue, you would do much better eating at a place like Bermejo, where the kitchen is run by a spectacular (and nationally recognized) chef.

This is a relatively new restaurant in Hermosillo, located inside the gated community of Los Lagos, on the third level of the racquet ball building (courts are on the first two levels). This is enough to provide a tremendous view in three directions (north, east...and south). There is adjacent surface parking. The elevator is not immediately visible from the parking area, only the staircase, so go around the building to the side where the swimming pool is located if you are not athletic enough to scamper up three flights of stairs. The dining room has floor to ceiling windows that can be opened to the outside when the weather permits. This is a very relaxing and casual environment, not quite the high energy of some of the new popular restaurants in the Hermosillo marketplace. This is another fusion restaurant (Italian-Argentinian) with a lot of interesting menu items,,,well worth the few extra minutes to get here.

To start, this restaurant is not called Los Lagos. That is the community and golf course in which it is located. It is called Calafate and for this reason, it is listed twice in trip advisor (this one, and the one under it's real name). I would recommend you visit both listings as the reviews are nearly opposite of each other.I live in Hermosillo and have been to Calafate a couple times. It is a clean, modern looking restaurant with impressive views of the golf course. The size and design is very much like what you find at Bermejo's (another restaurant in town). It's nice.The service is hit and miss. As other reviewers have noted (here and on the other review), some staff are quite friendly and attendant, while others are rather less so. This is not an inexpensive restaurant, so that annoys me. Customer service in Mexico is abysmal by American standards. That's to be expected at most places. But not restaurants at this price point. As an example, on my last visit, just securing a menu took about 15 minutes. We were the only table in the restaurant at the time and the staff were most entertaining themselves at the bar. The food was the most disappointing part about the restaurant. This too is a common trend among nicer restaurants in Hermosillo. Good staff and a nice looking restaurant just doesn't cut it. The kitchen is just woefully incompetent. From menu design, to execution. The 'Argentinean' salad offered is lettuce and a few tomatoes on a plate with olive oil. They cut a head of lettuce in half an put it on a plate and call it a salad. Certainly they could have found someone that could do better than that? I had the salmon. It was undercooked (ie raw in the middle) and smelled less than fresh (salmon should not smell fishy). One of my dinner guests had the Chilean bass, also undercooked. The rest of the dishes at my table were equally unimpressive. The restaurant offers a lunch buffet at 350 pesos (which is roughly $28 dollars). It doesn't look bad, but the price seems a bit steep for what is offered. Most of the entrees will run a but higher when you add in the sides. The sides are not included with the overpriced meals. That's also annoying as the price of the meal averages around $40 dollars when you add in the sides. I will say however, that the side of potatoes and asparagus were really quite excellent. Overall I would not recommend this restaurant. They are just consistently bad with their food, but at prices that are higher than most other fine dining restaurants in town. For this venue, you would do much better eating at a place like Bermejo, where the kitchen is run by a spectacular (and nationally recognized) chef.

This is a relatively new restaurant in Hermosillo, located inside the gated community of Los Lagos, on the third level of the racquet ball building (courts are on the first two levels). This is enough to provide a tremendous view in three directions (north, east and south). There is adjacent surface parking. The elevator is not immediately visible from the parking area, only the staircase, so go around the building to the side where the swimming pool is located if you are not athletic enough to scamper up three flights of stairs. The dining room has floor to ceiling windows that can be opened to the outside when the weather permits. This is a very relaxing and casual environment, not quite the high energy of some of the new popular restaurants in the Hermosillo marketplace. This is another fusion restaurant (Italian-Argentinian) with a lot of interesting menu items,,,well worth the few extra minutes to get here.