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| - My friends and I checked this place out pre-Cinco de Mayo last night based on its pretty darn decent Yelp reviews, and I wasn't disappointed! Even my coworkers were impressed with my good-restaurant-picking-abilities in a strange town...thanks, fellow Yelpers!
Atmosphere-wise, it bears an uncanny resemblance to Houston's...and the cuisine isn't terribly different, either. Despite how busy it appeared to be, our party of 4 was seated immediately, and our waitress was super friendly...even chatted us up a little about where we were from, etc., and provided us with some good beer recommendations.
For starters we went with the Dip Duo with Tortilla Chips. The duo of dips turned out to be a pretty chunky guacamole, which was very refreshing, and some kind of queso dip...I'm not sure exactly what was in it, but it was very yummy...they also brought us more chips after we'd polished off the ones that originally came with the dips, which I appreciated. For dinner, I ended up ordering the fish special, which was a grilled cajun blue nose, which is, as our waitress kindly informed us, in the the snapper family and is a mild, flaky white fish. And it was JUST fabulous...I enjoyed every bite of it! It came with a little cucumber salad, which was just basically thickly sliced cucumbers tossed with a light dressing that had cilantro and corn in it...and some other stuff that I can't identify, but it complemented the fish wonderfully.
Obviously my meal wasn't probably the classic Bandera meal, what with the lack of steak and all, but my experience was nothing but good, so 4 stars it is! I noticed they have a Brentwood location, so I might have to check it out once I'm back home...maybe I'll give one of their steaks a try!
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