text: I am willing to bet that this place was a shining gem in its heyday Several days have passed since that dayleaving the same gem minus a lot of the lusternnThe restaurant itself is quite spacious It has a full bar to the left a large recessed dining area in the middle geared more towards groups and a more secluded are to the right for smaller groups andor couples All three sections are quite spacious nnWe happened to sit off to the right We had a party of four and half one threeyearold The tables in this section were for a maximum of four people and our daughter is FAR to tall for a high chair Thankfully for us where there are some bay windows facing out of the restaurant there is a nice little padded booth created there which turned out to be the PERFECT place for our daughternnThe menu for Serranos is typical but it is pretty limited They offer the usual Mexican fare usually in both chicken and beef and ONE that offered shrimp Both the quality and quantity of each dish we ordered was substantial Suffice it to say that each member of our party left the restaurant with a takehome boxnnOur server was stellar The restaurant was not very crowded so if he HAD been lacking it would have made things very awkward But as it happened Christian was phenomenal He was patient with us while we waited for the final member of our party to arrive He was very diligent with keeping our drinks full and our table clearednnBut the coolest thing Christian did for us was regarding dessert You see it was my wifes birthday and her parents wanted to go to this restaurant for a celebratory dinner My wife was deathly afraid that the restaurant employees were going to make her wear a sombrero and sing a song to herand Christian almost made that happen However when he could see the sheer terror behind my wifes eyes at the prospect of public humiliation he took the clue and offered to comp her dessert nnThis shopping center that houses this restaurant is practically empty There are For Lease signs in several of the windows I can see why this place has stood the test of timethough I feel that their menu could use a little updating which is the only reason I opted for four stars instead of five for this cozy little relic