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| - So I actually wanted to eat at the Dia De Los Muertos festival but their food selections were sadly not that great so a search on Yelp brought me to La Tiendita. It had been on my bookmarks page for a long time so I figured now was a good time to try them out!
The restaurant is the corner building directly visible from the street in a nondescript little strip mall. One half of the building is the restaurant while the other side offers Latin American prepackaged goods, handcrafted items and a fridge with soda and juice available.
It was fairly busy when we got here in the afternoon on a Saturday but there were enough empty tables that we didn't have any wait. After browsing the menu I went for La Tiendita plate and had a few bites of the Bandeja Paisa plate.
Both entrees came out after a few minutes, served on a cast iron serving dish. La Tiendita plate includes a quarter of chicken, salad, sweet plantains, rice and beans. I got a chicken breast and wing and absolutely loved the flavor of it. The meat was very tender and juicy, almost rivaling the tenderness of dark meat! The salad was an iceberg lettuce mix with a light citrus based dressing, and I liked the beans and soft fluffy rice.
The Bandeja Paisa meats included a link of chorizo, a piece of chicharron, and carne molida (Ground beef). Out of the three I liked the carne molida the best due to the marinade which was citrus infused. The beef was very finely ground and chopped.
Service was friendly and drinks were refilled as needed.
I browsed in the store for a little bit. Some examples of the items they had for sale were chocolate candy bars, bottles of liquid smoke, and boxes of bunuelos mix.
I'll definitely come back for that chicken, and maybe to try out some of their other items like their arepas.
P.S. In case you were wondering, la tiendita means little store!
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