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| - I've been within miles of this place for years, never tried it. But the fiance and I were nearby last night and we LOVE to try new Mexican places so we went for an early dinner.
We were seated quickly (yay), but before I even put my butt in the seat, a tiny little kid came running and clinged to our server's leg. It was cute... at first. The whole time we were there (an hr +), there was an entire family of children running around the restaurant, from toddler to school age, about 4-5 of them. Talk about a "family" restaurant.
Salsa is a red chili salsa, it's not too bad, has some kick but the flavor is nothing special. It was served with about 7 whole chips on top of chip crumbs. Why, why would you serve something we can barely even dip into the salsa without covering our finger tips??
Fiance ordered a small frozen, strawberry margarita which was pretty tasty.
I thought the guac was ok, the avocado was smooth, like it was made in a blender (ugh) with some kinda chunky stuff in it (white onion, queso blanco?) and it was a little spicy. But we definitely prefer many other guacamoles to this one...especially since they served it with BURNT chips. Who the hell likes burned tortilla chips?
Chip crumbs and burned chips...
I got the taco salad with chicken.
The chicken itself was delicious, however, the only thing in the salad is lettuce, tomato, onion & cheese (and I requested No Tomato, which they did but then it was basically chicken and lettuce). What the hell, where are the beans and rice? Even a Taco Bell taco salad has those ingredients.
I personally, would have given this place one more chance but the fiance, he thought it outright sucked (worse than Suzie's, go there for a most horrible experience or if you love super bland, boring food) and was super pissed about the chip crumbs and burned chips because those are the simplest of things to do correctly.
Took forever for the bill to come (pretty sure the lady was dealin with those kids runnin around).
There is no risk taking in the flavor of these dishes. My Mexican home cooking beats this place by far and I'm no professional cook.
If you want a great Mexican food experience, try Poncho's in Phoenix. All of their food is amazing and their house made margaritas are fantastic.
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