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| - In an effort to try new places to eat rather than the old fav's Stephen and I went to Mi Pueblo on Lorain Avenue this evening after reading the many 4 and 5-star reviews on Yelp and Google. It's close to home, looks good...let's go!
WORST MEAL EVER. I'm not kidding, Cleveland reviewers must really like bland, season-less food because both meals were awful. To start my boyfriend ordered a frozen strawberry margarita. It was a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best). Barely frozen, no kick and just average compared to other Mexican joints we've gone to. We shared the Quesadilla Grande. It arrived...it was a flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and grilled on a flat top. No garnish, no lettuce, tomato or sour cream with it. Thank goodness we had the boring, liquid style salsa/red sauce to dip it in. Next up:
He ordered the Cheese Enchallada Combination Platter. Once again, no flavor, tolerated it but it was also very bland.
I ordered the Chicken and Cheese Gordita's. Oh, they didn't have those tonight but offered to make something similar and I can't remember the name (started with an S). They arrived and it was basically three grilled English Muffins (mexican version I assume), coated with beans, chicken that looked like and tasted like it came from a can, topped with cold grated cheese, sour cream, lettuce and tomato. I ate 3 bites and couldn't bare to eat anymore. It did taste a bit better when soaked in the red sauce that we had left over on the table.
The server never asked us how the food was, just saw I wasn't eating and brought me a box. Not her fault, she just works there so she got her 20% tip.
We both walked away wondering "Is this what authentic mexican food in Cleveland is" and "is our favorite place Nuevo Acapulco maybe Americanized Mexican food?". I don't know. I've eaten a lot of mexican food in New Mexico with my parents and it all had flavor. I will never go back to this place. No second chance.
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