A number of girls say they blacked out and felt drugged after not too long ago having drinks at a ritzy Tribeca restaurant — prompting a police probe and leaving them terrified to order a drink once more whereas out.
The ladies stepped ahead up to now week to assert in interviews and social-media posts that they left the Mexican sizzling spot Casa Carmen disoriented and violently unwell after as few as one or two drinks — and are actually urging others to watch out.
A restaurant-goer who went to the Tribeca eatery, which additionally has a Flatiron location, on Nov. 22 with associates recalled immediately blacking out after taking a sip of her second margarita.
“We had a drink with our meal, and we ordered a bunch of meals. Proper after we received our second drinks to the desk, mainly from beginning to sip that second drink, I simply fully don’t have any reminiscence from that time up till waking up the following morning,” claimed the patron, who wished to stay nameless out of concern for her security, to The Submit.
She recalled then waking up shaky and disoriented the following morning, immediately realizing “one thing was fallacious.
“There was like a tall glass of water subsequent to my mattress, however it was a glass that I usually don’t use, so I knew another person had put it there,” she stated. “I simply didn’t know who. I used to be bodily shaky … and simply actually knew one thing was fallacious. I had by no means been in that place earlier than.”
She stated that fortunately, she finally found she was helped into her condominium by a involved neighbor, who set her up with a glass of water after discovering her caught within the vestibule of her condominium constructing, unable to get by means of the second door.
When piecing collectively the occasions of the evening, the client found a number of Google and Yelp evaluations detailing comparable experiences.
“The restaurant was lovely, meals was respectable, however half of my all-women celebration, after solely 2 margaritas, had been projectile vomiting and unconscious. Very scary. Please BE CAREFUL,” reads a Yelp evaluation from greater than two years in the past.
A Google evaluation stated, “By no means go to this place … please be warned!!!
“Went there with my girlfriends … we ordered two margaritas every. On the finish of the evening we had been so buzzed. One in all my associates even handed out, we had been throwing up all evening and the following day,” the individual wrote.
The Nov. 22 buyer stated she was alarmed by the evaluations and known as the restaurant to see if it might help her or if its employees had seen something suspicious. She was instantly postpone by Casa Carmen’s response, she claimed.
“He was very routine about it. He stated, ‘OK, you sat at this desk. Right here’s your server’s title. You already know, right here’s what you guys ordered. Please electronic mail the proprietor, and I’ll inform you what, I’ll again you up,’ ” she stated of her dialog with a supposed bartender.
“And that struck me as odd as a result of I used to be like, why, why, why would he say that? Like, and why do I want backup?” she stated.
The overall supervisor of Casa Carmen, Sebastian Ramirez Degollado, assured the Nov. 22 buyer in a subsequent dialog that different prospects who reported feeling overly incapacitated probably misreported how a lot they drank or didn’t eat sufficient, in keeping with the patron and data reviewed by The Submit.
The girl then determined to make a submit about her expertise on a Reddit thread, which has since gone viral and spurred a number of folks to achieve out to her immediately and remark with comparable experiences of blacking out after lower than two drinks.
She additionally filed an incident report with the NYPD, a course of she stated officers initially resisted.
“The feminine cop from the bounce checked out me and stated, ‘What would you like me to do? You need me to jot down that you simply went out, received too drunk, and don’t keep in mind something? You need me to jot down that down?’ And I’m pondering to myself, like, that is precisely why girls don’t report crimes like this to the police,” she stated of her dialog with officers on the precinct.
An NYPD rep confirmed to The Submit that officers are investigating the diner’s report of the Nov. 22 incident. They’re at the moment treating it as an remoted incident and haven’t acquired different associated police studies.
Casa Carmen Tribeca informed The Submit in an announcement that the restaurant is conscious of the allegations and is cooperating with legislation enforcement.
“We’re conscious of those current allegations and cooperating absolutely with the visitor and the police as we take all visitor security very significantly. We now have supplied video to the police and provided to indicate the visitor as properly. We sit up for the police report,” the assertion stated.
“Our commonplace cocktails include between 2 to three ounces of onerous liquor, relying on the cocktail. Our margarita on faucet incorporates Tradicional Blanco (2oz) and Combier (1oz), that are high quality manufacturers,” the restaurant continued.
Degollado additionally informed The Submit over the cellphone that that is the primary time the restaurant has been approached by legislation enforcement for such issues.
One other lady who dined at Casa Carmen’s Tribeca location in March and wished to stay nameless stated she left the restaurant “the drunkest and sickest” she’d ever been after beginning to sip her second margarita of the evening.
“Once I was on my second drink, which was a margarita, I received actually nauseous on the desk and needed to stand up. I instantly began throwing up downstairs within the lavatory,” she stated.
“I used to be like, that is very odd. I can normally have two margaritas and never have an issue. We had been consuming a full dinner with it as properly,” she stated.
After touring house the following day, she was nonetheless sick and unable to maintain water down, main her to go to the hospital, she stated.
She was given fluids and anti-nausea medicine and had some blood work completed however was solely informed that she had an elevated white blood cell rely after the ordeal.
The New York State Liquor Authority declined to touch upon the matter, and the town Division of Well being didn’t reply to Submit requests for remark.
