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| - Si Senor is based out of Las Cruces, NM and serves Authentic New Mexican food. I have lived in New Mexico over half of my life. The Mexican food in New Mexico is simply the greatest. And Las Cruces has the best in NM. Unfortunately I have family in Arizona and the Mexican food that I have had there at several different restaurants has always been absolutely awful. The first sign that a meal is going to the dogs is when we ask if they have "green chile" and they look at me confused and say "What?". "Uhm... nevermind you obviously don't". Try asking any restaurant in the PHX area for red or green chile and they will stare at you with their mouth open... ."excuse me...". Our waitress at one of the most popular local PHX restaurants when asked responded, after the "excuse me... huh..." part with "Do you mean chili beans, or do you mean salsa?... Is that what you mean.... salsa?"
So, knowing that a Las Cruces restaurant, Si Senor, had opened a restaurant in Chandler, certainly we HAD to try it while we were there. And they did not disappoint. We usually order the #1 combo (Beef tamale, cheese enchilada, chile relleno, taco, chile con carne (red or green - your choice), beans, rice, four different salsas with chips, and sopapillas (NOT "sopas" which is "soups", a "sopapilla" is a puffed fry bread) for less than $13 or so. And I always get it "green". Their green chile sauce just tastes so good smothering everything on the plate. Thank you Si Senor soooo much for opening this restaurant ... anyone who is from NM MUST go there when in town for the ONLY edible (New) Mexican food in town!! This was our first visit to this location and it will not be the last. BTW, when we were there the place was packed!! (Probably full of New Mexicans missing some of that awesome food from home!!). My ONLY complaint was that the sopapillas were covered with cinnamon and sugar. Although tasty, I like to use my sopapillas as a "plate cleaner"... dipping it in the sauce on the plate (or salsa), and piling on rice and beans and other scraps for a tasty stuffed sopapilla treat. But, at least there were sopapillas which only a rare few in the PHX area have.
FYI: Another reviewer on here states that this is no "Los Cuates". Obviously he is from the Northern part of the state where the "traditional" NM food is not as good as in the Southern part. "Los Cuates" is a terrible restaurant in Albuquerque that does not even come close to Southern NM cuisine. "Los Cuates" is, actually at the top of my personal list of the Worst restaurants in the state. I have lived in NM for over 30 years, and Si Senor is easily one of the top 10 "casual" (not gourmet) restaurants in NM. And is not a "poor attempt at New Mexican food", but is authentic "New Mexican" food. I do, however, recommend the green chile over the red chile. Most restaurants tend to specialize in one or the other. With Si Senor, their green is better than their red.
One, reviewer mentions red "enchilada" sauce. It is NOT "enchilada sauce... it is "chile" sauce. That is the difference between "New Mexican" food and Arizona food. We smother our food with chile sauce... not enchilada sauce. The sauce is made from chile and is used to flavor other foods, not JUST enchiladas. When you order a bowl of "chile" you get a soupy chile sauce with chunks of meat and potatoes. This is different from Texas "chili" which is a thickened tomato sauce with cumin and other spices, meat and beans. sopa = soup, sopaipilla = fried puff pastry, chile = the fruit of a chile plant or the powder or the sauce made from the fruit, chili = a thick stew made with tomato sauce - cumin, and or meat and beans - and red chile powder, enchilada sauce = sauce made with chile - and several spices and usually tomato sauce - used in enchiladas.
Si Senor's has four salsas. Red, Green, a Green sour cream, and Chorizo and Bean. The Red is probably the hottest. It is served cold and has red chile, tomatoes, cilantro, onion, garlic, etc. The Green is not quite as hot as the red but can be quite hot. It is served warm and has green chile, and other ingredients (NOT pork!), the Green sour cream is served cold and is a refresher to cool your mouth off after having the hotter salsas! It has a bit of green chile and a few spices in it. The Chorizo (Spicy Mexican pork sausage) and bean dip, has red chile in the Chorizo, garlic and beans, etc. It is served warm and isn't really very hot tasting. My favorite is the Green salsa, then the "white" Green (sour cream salsa), the red, then the Chorizo.
Down here in the Southern Part of New Mexico, we grow our Chile (chile capital of the World, thankyou), hot and we grow it well. Our food revolves around our chile. If you don't like chile, you won't like our food, period. Chile doesn't have to be hot. But usually, the hotter it is, the more flavor it has.
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