This past weekend I celebrated a friend’s 21^st birthday at Molly’s. Dinner was great: the boneless wings and fish and chips – a delicious if food-baby giving/artery-clogging combo.

To toast the occasion, the three of us each had a Molly’s Marg, on the rocks with salt (in retrospect, not a great choice). Now I’m not a tequila guy, but I do drink a margarita now and again if I know they’re being well made. I'd also never had a Molly's Marg before, and I’d heard from many people how tasty (and of course inexpensive) they are, so I was excited to try one.

The margarita I got, however, was about as bland as it could be. It wasn’t bad, probably because it was made with a decent tequila, but it was overwhelmingly salty. Yes, I asked for it with salt, but the salt goes on the rim, where including it in your tasting is optional. I tried just a hint of salt with my first sip, and never again – I finished it through the straw and left the rest of the salt alone. And yet for the remainder of the drink (which I sipped over probably 30 minutes, so the initial salt taste was long gone) it had this consistently strong taste of salt. Like I said, this didn’t totally ruin the marg, but it made it quite underwhelming.

I do try to give bartenders the benefit of the doubt on any one bad drink, so I suppose I'll have to go back and try another sometime and see if it's any better. But for now, my recommendation is if you’re going to get a Molly’s Marg, get it without salt, and see how that treats you. It might just be really good.

Update (6/3):

I had a sip this evening of an unsalted marg and found it much more appeasing. Although a little sweet, it was much better than its salty sibling.