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| - I remember eating here once and saying, "What's the point?" It's a big heavy, plate of food, but nothing jumps out at you as a highlight.
This time, I got the point. The point is that sometimes you want a solid meal. You want to fill up on something solid. You want to stoke the flame in the belly with something hearty, something warming, something filling, something sometimes gloppy - - with lots of creamy, hefty comfort in the gentle, pleasant flavors. it's TexiMexiComfort food.
If there were a baseball analogy (which every proper review should include), it's like there are no flavor blasts to the left and right field fences. Instead it's an inning of seeing-eye ground balls and Texas League singles that still manage to load the bases, and drive in a couple of runs.
Don't go if you are craving the apex of novel tastiness to cap off your week; don't go to impress a date; don't go if you are feeling slightly peckish and want a rare, refined, sublime accent in your culinary landscape.
Go if you want dat belly full of hefty, creamy, mondo-goodness. I really liked the chile relleno - - it had that vegetal musty twist true to the pepper, and it really stood out amidst the sea of sauce and the ocean of food that is combo #7 with the beef enchilada that also asserted itself OK alongside the bay of beans and the craggy hillside of rice.
The salsa, was excellent, actually, too. The service is efficient jaded professional.
It's four hours later as I'm writing this, and I'm still stuffed. Sometimes you just need some TexiMexiComfort food.
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