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My date had been here before and has been bragging about the food here, so I agreed to try it out.
They don't take reservations on weekends. Came in on a Friday night, they told us the wait would be an hour and a half...! A little crazy but we put our names on the list and they said they'd text us when a table opens up (in the meantime we took a walk down college and ended up at Eat My Martini for a few drinks). Finally our text came through and we headed back over.
The atmosphere is LIVE (& I mean that in the best possible way!) It's a smallish, narrow restaurant with tables below/in the back and bar stools along the bar. The place is busy, lively and blasting the top hip-hop and rnb. I couldn't help but to bounce in my seat as I ate my taco! Definitely a fun atmosphere!
Staff was amazing- every single person we interacted with was smiling, laughing and as helpful as they could possibly be. These people were actually enjoying themselves and their work, and it showed! It was a pleasure dealing with the staff here!
The food here is good, oh-so good!! We started with an avocado-mango salad - highly recommend it, very tasty and different than any mango salad you've had before! On to the tacos - our favorites, in this particular order: 1. beef cheek taco; 2. Chicken taco; 3. La carnitas (pork) taco; 4. Fish (cod) taco. The beef cheek taco is TO DIE FOR! I ended up having two of these, it was love at first taste! (I'm sure my date had a great time watching me have food orgasms at the table as we ate) They are roughly $5 each. The tacos appear fairly small and I'm a pretty hearty eater, so I thought I would need a million of these things to be satisfied. But after three I was feeling good! We asked our server to surprise us with dessert, which ended up being two parts. The first was their signature ice cream bar. It is a vanilla ice cream on a stick (not very creamy, which I liked) covered in Oreo dust...this creation was glorious! But was so messy to eat, with every bite it looked like someone dumped potted soil all over our table! Well worth the mess though! Part two were churros served with a caramel sauce. The churros were okay, they were fairly dense and heavy (I think el catrin has better churros, to be honest)
At the end when we got the bill, the server dropped off a half-page drawing on card stock. It turned out to be a local artist's work. There is an interesting story behind why they do this - but I won't be the spoiler! Ask your server about the art they hand out and how that started :) very cool concept they kept alive!
La Carnita - thank you for a wonderful evening! I will be back soon!
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