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| - I liked the look of this place from the road- brightly colored, older looking hacienda style like you'd see in a neighborhood in Jalisco. I felt like I'd have to step over la borrachon en el sombrero e poncho to get inside. Not too long ago in Rosarita, El Borrachon would have been me.
I ordered tacos- dos de lengua e dos al pastor, (tongue and pork.) $3 each. Horchata, (sweet rice drink pronounced or- cha- ta.) $2. Chips and salsa, free. I ordered in Spanish too. That's always fun for me. I'm a big, fat white guy that looks like Jim Gaffigan and learned Spanish from watching "Three Amigos" over and over.
You can't mess up tongue tacos. No trick there. They were good. The al pastor was good as well but I believe the pork was sautéed and not roasted. This makes a difference. Roasting is time consuming and more costly- but it is sooo worth it.
The chips were fresh made and ok. I wasn't crazy about the selection of tortillas. The salsa was not very good- very watery, not hot, not much flavor. I prefer a Sonoran style sauce that's the consistency of what people in the States use as hot sauce. Most Mexican restaurants in the States make a chunky salsa that's half salsa and half pico. This place seemed to be trying to "Americanize" their salsa by making it half salsa half pico. They had more traditional salsas in squeeze bottles though. They should have just served them instead- they were good.
Bottom line is the food was pretty good. I'd eat there again. I do wish they had a "help yourself" salsa bar though, wth all the good stuff like cut radishes, roasted jalapeños, cilantro and onion. Upside down Margarita service would be nice too. There's nothing like being force fed margaritas one ingredient at a time.
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