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| - Location: Brampton's theatre district.
Parking: Street parking OR just North of the restaurant, hang a left and park underground in the Blue-P, underneath the Brampton Civic Centre.
Atmosphere: Casual, quiet on a Saturday lunch. Mind you, it was also quite cold outside. Tables were decorated with colourful, Mexican weaved cloths. I'm guessing that they catch the theatre-goers and lunch crowd for the people who work nearby.
Instead of the standard tortilla chips with salsa, some decorative "fried-dough" was presented at the table with 2 different types of salsas. (If you're Chinese, they tasted like non-shrimpy 'ha peen'.) Warning: Both salsas had a kick to it!
My table ordered different things so we can get a sampling of the menu. Sadly, I never tasted either the burrito or the platter! Food was too quickly devoured.
I was surprised for the value that was being provided for the food. Either that, or I'm too used to being ripped off at other Mexican places! For example, the Platters arrived on quite a large dish, complete with beans (NOT from a can!), a serving of rice (much fresher looking than any other place that I've been to), a scoop of guac, side salad, protein, & 2 accompanying either flour/corn tortillas all for $10 (lunch). I thought that this was exceptional value!
If you're hungry and there for lunch, I'd suggest either the burrito (no rice inside) OR the platter. 3 tacos ($9 for cochinita pibil, a pulled pork) was the the smaller portion of the 3 choices.
One thing to keep in mind is that since everything is freshly made, the refried beans for example, they're going to be 'wetter' looking. Same goes for the proteins.
Try their made-in-house drinks. Horchata ($2) was really good!
Prices are better value for lunch, but looks like there's TONS more options for dinner service! Plus they serve pozole during weekend dinners. Will definitely be back, too bad it's a bit of a distance.
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