I admit it. I'm a foodie and I have high standards. I eat out a lot in New York. I'd heard good things about the NYC Mesa Grill, so I figured this place would at least have some edible food. Error on my part.\n\nThe food bumps this review down to one star. The waitstaff could not have been nicer, which I why I'm bumping it back up to two. But honestly, don't you usually go to a place like this for the food?\n\nThere are three sauces: an off-white one, an orange one and a dark brown one. Add some combination of these three to a meat or veggie substance and you've got your entire menu. Creative, it ain't. Our party of eight tried just about everything.\n\nNot much flavor to the sauces or the dishes in general. Boring is the word that comes to mind. What kills me is that our waiter spent about half his time telling us \"don't worry, nothing on the menu is spicy!\" He might as well have said \"don't worry, nothing on the menu is flavorful!\" I have no problem with mild food, but it's a little weird at a southwestern themed restaurant.\n\nI can recommend the cactus pear cocktail though. That was tasty, and maybe after a few of them you won't notice the lack of flavor in the food.