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| - I drive by Me & Julio's often. Out of curiosity, I dropped by this place without consulting Yelp. I wish I hadn't.
The ambience is classically Americana, as is the clientele. The menu is split between American and Mexican-inspired offerings.
I got the country ribs, expecting a nice generous platter as I watched waitresses deliver a gigantic taco to another table. Instead, I got a platter half occupied by my side. The other half was covered in two lettuce leaves and four sad little rib nuggets. For $16.
"These better be some amazing pieces of meat," I thought to myself, remembering that I'd once been served similar-looking hunks of meat in a delicious Turkish restaurant. I bit into one. I immediately noticed that the meat was hard and dry. Disbelieving that rib meat could manage to be dry, I gave it another chance with the second nugget. Nope. Still dry.
It was a pity, because the sauce honestly had some good flavors to it, but it was difficult to forgive the texture. This problem was compounded by a serious lack of water: the cup they gave me was half ice, and waitresses didn't give refills so much as they replaced entire cups... which they never got around to offering me before I'd finished all I could eat. The only upside to the meal was that the sweet potato fries were consistently good.
After I took some leftovers home, I noticed that the leftover rib nuggets were pretty good with a glass of whole milk. There was that, at least. But my visit to this restaurant was full of disappointment.
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