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| - I think I'm the last person in the area to try at least one of the Barrio restaurants. Last night, that all changed! My husband and I met another couple here on a Saturday evening at 7ish.
I was really impressed with their wait list process where we check in at the host stand with our cell # and we can leave the establishment if we would like to avoid the shoulder to shoulder crowd in the bar area. We stepped away and enjoyed cocktails in the bar next door. We were given a wait time of an hour and 20 minutes. My phone rang an hour and 15 minutes after we gave them our name/number, as our table was ready!
Once seated, we were immediately greeted by our awesome server, Emily! She spent a good amount of time with me going over the ordering process and made some great suggestions since she asked if we'd all visited Barrio before. The place hopping, tables were being turned around time after time. There wasn't an empty table the entire we were there.
We took Emily's suggestion in trying the the special queso, which was Crab Rangoon Queso. Yep, that's what I said, 2 of my all time FAVORITE ooey gooey goodness creations combined! I thought I was being punked and kinda expected Ashton to hop out of the back room yelling at me that this was all a joke and I would not be receiving anything of the sort! He didn't. The queso dip came out and was devoured by 3 of us (fortunately my friends husband isn't a fan of crab)! It was the perfect blend crab rangoon flavor with the thick creamy queso. The only mini-complaint was it came out luke warm and quickly chilled to a thick glob that broke our tortilla chips when we tried scooping it into our gaping mouths.
We ordered a pitcher of regular margaritas. It had great flavor, seemed to have fresh lime juice but I don't think there was too much tequila. All four of us know our margaritas and none of us thought there was any or too much libations We weren't expecting margaritas similar to other places where all you taste is tequila, rather, a taste of tequila complimenting the natural ingredients. But we got over it and finished the pitcher!!
I ordered a chicken taco with the green goddess (or green goodness, according to my friend) shell, meaning you have a hard taco slathered on the outside with guacamole and queso then wrapped with a soft tortilla!! The taco was huge! There's no way I could have finished two. Everyone else at the table ordered 2 & were very very full. I had chicken, peppers, onions, tomatoes, pineapple salsa and queso wrapped up in the green goddess shell! I would do it all over again today if I could!!!!
My first visit to Barrio was pretty good! Next time, we're going to get there a little earlier to enjoy the bar area and enjoy the total Barrio experience!!
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