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| - We went here last week on a chilly weeknight for some decent Mexican food. I've been here before. Coming from the Southwest, passable Mexican food is very difficult to find here and La Palapa delivered. We got a handful of items and shared and enjoyed all of it with some minor gripes. The food is Mexico City-style Mexican food so its a bit different than the Sonorran style that I am used to.
We started the meal with chips and guacamole. Unlike most Mexican restaurants, they do not offer complimentary chips and salsa, which we found odd. But the guacamole was great. Billed as "best in the city", I would have to disagree. Mine is slightly better but the guacamole is great. There were a couple of the little black/brown stem thingees in the guacamole. The chips were really oily, though. Which was a bummer. We were there to pig out, though. So we dabbed off the oil and enjoyed the appetizer.
I ordered the Chuletas de Puerco which is a big pile of pork chops and potatoes plus rice and beans. They smothered it in a salsa verde (green sauce). The pork chop did have bones and with all the sauce, its hard to see where the bones and gristle end and where the tasty pork chop begins. The beans were awesome and the rice was fluffy with corn mixed in. The salsa verde wasn't spicy at all and I had to douse the whole thing in some heat. Not a big deal, I understand the typical Pittsburgher is a total wuss when it comes to heat so they have to make it to taste.
My woman ordered a couple chicken quesadillas and I order a chicken tamale for us to share. They also provided a small tortilla warmer with some deliciously soft corn tortillas (my favorite). They were great to sop up the various sauces. Her quesadillas were fairly small but the chicken tasted pretty good. They came with the guacamlole, crema fresca and a pico de gallo on the side.
No horchata for the night and they were out of Sprite. But my woman ordered a Mexican Coke. She had to ask for a cup of ice, even though the Coke was warm. The water also had very few ice cubes in it and, by the end of the meal, the ice had all melted. Maybe they didn't think we needed ice, with it being so cold outside. Or maybe they just have a drastic ice shortage in the restaurant.
The biggest negative was that the table size is peculiarly tiny! We ordered one entree and a few small things and, with beverages, hot sauce and tortillas, we had to stack things in order for everything to fit. The tables are pretty much large enough for a two beverages, two entree plates and maybe a squeezed in tortilla warmer where you can find room. That coupled with the oily chips, stems in the guacamole and the lack of ice put a damper on the meal.
The food tastes great. But the delivery seems to be lacking.
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