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| - Very fresh, scratch-cooked food that is surprisingly bland. Lunch buffet is a worthwhile bargain.
I ordered the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet which runs until 4 p.m. for $7.99, and mom ordered the chile rellenos dinner for about the same price. We left pleasantly full and WITHOUT that heavy, slighly-sick, ugh feeling that often follows a Mexican dinner. This restaurant desperately needs to add a highly-flavored, HOT salsa, at least one bilingual American employee, and a little Latin music instead of the TV noise. Then, I will be a total fan.
Real, from-scratch cooking happens here. The nasty, fakey, pre-packaged flavors true of so many other Mexican places were replaced by simple, very fresh food flavors. They even make their corn tortillas from scratch! The buffet is reasonably extensive and was freshened constantly even though we got there at 1:40 p.m. Surprisingly, the buffet had real melted white cheese, so it was possible to kinda go wild with it. Yum. Everything looked clean and the entrees looked appetizing. The lettuce was surprisingly fresh and nice. The wait staff was helpful and brought us what we wanted once they understood what we were saying. Mom's plate had two big, cheese-stuffed poblano chiles that looked beautifully cooked from scratch. Loved the freshly-made corn tortillas. The salsa was home-made, but totally mild and bland. Again, a home-made, chunky, HOT salsa is desperately needed as an alternative.
My heart cries out for hot peppers and flavorful, marinated meat! Sigh. Not here. Everything was nicely cooked and tasty in a bland way. A few spicy tweaks would make a vast improvement. The chicken dishes were good, but the beef needed marinating or something to add greater depth of flavor in the cooking method. The beef tasted like it had been boiled. Next time, I am bringing my own hot sauce.
Decor is modest -- typical Mexican decorations with some nice murals on the walls. The dining room is small with a few tables and booths and what appears to be a separate banquet space next door. Bright paint outside is festive and the free-standing building's design is pretty inviting. Trim paint outside around the door needs a touch-up. Plenty of parking right at the door. Somebody needs to tidy the carpet underneath the table after clearing each table. Sitting on top of food litter on the carpet undercuts the impression of cleanliness that was obvious with the buffet.
Huge language barrier problems. Only one person seemed to speak English at all, and even she did not always understand what we were saying. We resorted to pointing and acting out what we wanted (e.g., sawing motion for needing a knife).
There is a lot to like about this restaurant, though. It is the freshest, most promising Mexican restaurant I have visited in Concord so far.
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