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| - In brief: I was pleasantly surprised.
For Mexican food, I like more "authentic" (I mean, as much as I as a food nerd in Wisconsin can reasonably claim to know about authentic Mexican) than Midwest overstuffed-with-dairy Mexican.
A couple of my preferred Mexican joints have shut down lately, this place opens up like a mile from my house. Hey potentially solid Mexican place real close to home is worth investigating.
It's in a strip mall, in a space that's been a couple other restaurants before. Inside it's pretty bare. Definitely mom-n-pop. When I went, one daughter was taking orders, her mom was cooking, and another sister was helping in the kitchen.
So look at my surprise when one of their standard meats that you can throw in pretty much any shape & size of masa dough, is cochinita pibil (slow roasted achiote rubbed pork shoulder). A lot of places that's like an entree unto itself but here you can get it on anything.
I had a cochinita pibil huarache which was plenty of food, and really good. My friend who had been lifting all day got 4 tacos (cochinita, pastor, steak, chicken), and a GIANT chicken quesadilla (1/3 of which I ended up eating). Then he wanted to try the fish taco special and tried to order 1 fish taco, but we ended up with a whole order of fish tacos, so I had one of those and it was pretty solid too. Nice slaw & salsa.
Way too much food, but all good, and very cheap. Support my new neighborhood Mexican joint. Because I want to eat there more!
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