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| - Im pretty surprised this place only has 3 stars...I really liked it! Growing up in California, I will admit I can be a bit of a Mexican-food-snob. But I thought that everything we had was seriously delicious!
It was our last afternoon in Vegas before heading home when we landed at Chayo. I had scoped out the menu several days prior when I was wandering through the Linq and made a metal note to try to make it back sometime before we left. As luck would have it, it happened to be a Tuesday. As we all know, Mexican food + Tuesday = Taco Tuesday. Score! Here this means half price on all tacos and 2 for one house margaritas. We decided to cash in on both.
We started out with an order of chips, salsa, and guacamole. Man. This stuff is delicious. I don't know if I was in need of some seriously substantial food by now or if their chips and quac really are as good as they tasted that day. Either way, my mouth was seriously happy.
We ordered the Chayo Chopped Salad with grilled/seasonal fish (mahi), an order of the Carnitas Tacos, a side of black beans, an iced tea, and the house marg's (on special) The salad was fresh and yummy. Fish was cooked perfectly and not too dry. Black beans were standard. Nothing over the top as far as they went. I really like black beans though so I was still happy even though they were pretty "average". The carnitas tacos were seriously delicious. The carnitas was wonderfully tender. Not too greasy with a really yummy "carnitas flavor"- prob my favorite dish. Margaritas were VERY drinkable, despite being the "cheap" option, made with Sauza and whatever they use as a margarita mix (not overly sweet) I can be pretty picky about margaritas since its typically my drink of choice and these were solid. Even the iced tea had a great fresh-brwewd taste that was really thirst quenching.
Total came to be about 50 bucks (without tip) For everything we got (...in VEGAS!) that was a seriously amazing deal.
Next time we are in town I will def try to hit this place up again. ...a Tuesday would be even better!
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