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| - Tortilla Flats is consistent, I'll give it that.
I've been here many times over the years. The fact that it has managed to stay in business and to keep it's chill atmosphere and relaxed menu in the otherwise completely refaced and now very "Eaton Centre" Queen West is pretty awesome.
I used to love Queen West for the cute boutiques and interesting restaurants that they don't have in the suburbs next to movie theatres and that don't sell gift cards which work at 5 other restaurants owned by the same company. Now it's all H & M and Payless Shoes and a few restaurants remain in tact.
Tortilla Flats offers an extensive menu with awesome (and incredibly quickly made, piping hot) nachos to whet your appetite which includes three different types of chili, lots of vegetarian friendly options and my favourite, the dry Cajun boneless wings.
Things come out sizzling hot (real sizzle lines appear over this review if you read it with 3D glasses) and they have a really interesting dessert menu which includes other sizzling food items, but sweet ones. Fountain drinks are replenished frequently.
The staff are usually relaxed and fun and the atmosphere is usually a bit loud (especially if you go on one of the better drink feature nights- they have one every night of the week, some better than others) but there's good background music a la satellite radio and of course, the always fun people watching on Queen West through the abundant windows.
Gripes, yes I have a couple.
Firstly, they have never, in all these years, joined the interac world. They don't take it. They have an ATM on site which charges an arm and a leg to withdraw money. They do take credit cards, though.
Also, this place now (since the Smoke-Free Ontario Act) houses a massive back patio which is packed with drinkers in the summer and littered with smokers all parka'd out in the winter. The problem is that it would appear the patio was thrown together when the Act was passed because.....gasp.....you can't eat without smoking......and the seals and insulation just never were paid the attention they were due. So in the winter, this place is effing cold. I wore my coat the entire time I was there, even while eating spicy food.
And the bathrooms are sickening. But that seems to be the case everywhere I go, whether that be a 24 hour Tim Horton's or Ultra Supper Club. Some people are just gross.
The Tex-Mex here is good but my heart remains resident at La Cabana on the Danforth.
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