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| - Who's thrilled there are more authentic Mexican options than in decades past. I am, I am. Now the problem is how to find the time to try them all. Kind of a famine to feast situation - enough of the preamble let's get to it.
Restaurant Frida, has the right motif to pay tribute to their namesake. It's colourful, and has her portait up, and on display along with several shelves of Mexican products to take to with you after your meal, or to add to it.
The likes of corn tortillas, flour tortillas, pork cracklins (chicaharrones), clay pottery and dulce de leche (eat the pottery at your own risk) et mas.
On the menu and menu boards are items like Nopal (cactus), Tinga (chicken), Pazole (or another Mexican soup), and what I ended up getting to take out and eat on a set of steps nearby; a Cochinitas (shredded marinated pork) burrito $8 + tax.
Now for the good and the sort of bad...
It was flavourful, and came with two dipping sauces (one was an excellent tomatillo, the other hot salsa). The cabbage was fresh and crunchy, there were onions and spices on a soft tasty tortilla shell.
It was long and thin, but not nearly a 5 lb burrito = was not huge, but again flavourful. Was a little drippy, but then again some of the tastiest meals are messy.
Unfortunately, there was a green tie of some sort that I found near the end of my chews. When I went back to ask about it another day, and one of the staff (actually from Chihuahua) was nice enough to take the time to figure out that it was a plantain leaf used in the cooking process.
Glad to know it wasn't something inorganic. Her care saved the review from ending in a lower rating, as another staff member did not seem to care as much to figure out what it was.
With that, my little note to restaurants - when/if someone/a customer finds something green in a burrito that isn't guacamole...you should care...mucho.
Gracias for caring.
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