Sorry that you took that hit, but I am slightly happy that someone else finds the Playground as much of a joke as I do, actually even more so.
Sounds like far from noting their decline and fixing it, they have plunged into even further depths of ineptitude since what is likely to be my final time ever visiting:
Vaca is genuinely awesome…if only they could do a proper paella =/ Though the stuff still tastes frankly incredible to me despite the lack of authenticity.
Too bad no one mentioned you have to ask for hard noodle at Kitakata =/ I, too, found the soft noodles not so nice, but their chashu cannot be beat.
Why didn’t you hit up Taco Maria though?