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| - Finally got to come see what all the hype was about! Overall, I'd say it's definitely worth giving a try? My wife and I came in around 4:50 and were told they weren't seating for dinner until 5, no biggie, I get it, so we just sat at the bar to have drinks, then just decided to end up staying there. She had a pineapple based margarita served up, it was good, but the juice to liquor ratio was a little high. I had a couple Paloma's which were good, can't go wrong with tequila and a bottle of squirt. We liked the two salsas they brought out, and even gave us a small bottle of what tasted like a chipotle "spicy" sauce. We had the chicken fajita nachos and the chicken tacos al carbon. The nachos consist of 8 pieces each individually topped with beans cheese and a piece of chicken, with guac/sour cream/pickled veggies/whole cilantro stems in the middle. Only thing that was odd was the cilantro, I get the idea, but most of them had brown/dead leaves so we just took the whole clump off the plate. The tacos also weird, I'm assuming they make their own tortillas, but the tortilla to meat ratio was way off. Each taco is like the size of a burrito almost, and comes wrapped up as a roll. The unlimited beans and rice on the side is a nice touch, though. The main thing I was wary of was the chicken in both items...it was tender to the point where you question if it's cooked all the way through or not, didn't help that the skin on the outside was stretchy/weird so I just peeled it off.
You really have to be able to execute well if you're going to open a Mexican restaurant in a part of town where you are surrounded by similar Tex mex and authentic Mexican, especially for the prices being charged here. For now, I'd attribute most of the faults to growing pains, but we'll probably wait a while before returning.
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