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| - Last night my boyfriend and I decided to try Barrio in Lakewood for our weekly date night. Neither of us had ever been to the one in Tremont either, so we went in not quite knowing what to expect (except that we had heard it was a taco place).
Being the planner that I am, earlier in the day I had looked at Barrio's menu online to see what I might be having for dinner later that evening. The menu was interesting. Tacos only. That's fine-- we love tacos! I was just surprised there weren't any taco salads or any other options. But hey, if you don't like tacos, I guess this just isn't the place for you.
Anyway, looking at the menu I kind of expected our date night to be fairly inexpensive. Tacos are generally $3 each, with $1 extra here and there for guacamole, sour cream, or rice.
When we arrived, we found the restaurant was quite small-- cozy and quaint, as realtors like to say. We got sat immediately (this was at 6:30 p.m. on a Wednesday).
They serve customers water and free chips and salsa (which is always a nice perk). Although I didn't really like the salsa. It had a strange consistency and sort of tasted like a spicy ketchup.
Our server was awesome. His name was Jay. Very attentive, yet chill, and had plenty to say about the food at Barrio. He told his his favorite "appetizer" was the chorizo queso ($8). So we decided to try that. It was very good, so I would also recommend that dip! (Although I don't really think it's worth $8)
Boyfriend and I both got margaritas, which were $7 and $8 each.
To order the tacos, there's little worksheets you fill out at your table where you can choose the tortilla type, the meat, the salsa, the cheese, etc.
They also have some tacos they recommend that are already pre-decided with all of the toppings. I chose one from the premade list and one of my own creation.
Boyfriend ordered four tacos.
They were pretty tasty. Small, normal-sized tacos wrapped with tin-foil to stay together. I say that they're small, but they are really filling.
One of the things I thought was really cool about this place was that the servers have hand-held devices to type in their orders. Our server was still standing at our table right after we ordered our appetizer, and our appetizer came out of the kitchen.
The decor is very fun. Lots of skeletons and Day-of-the-Dead type stuff paintings all over the walls. Skeletons sitting on bicycles hung from the ceiling near the bar area.
The only major con to this place is the parking. It's Lakewood, so of course it's mainly street parking, and with a good restaurant like this, parking gets crowded. We ended up finding a street spot about two blocks down, so it wasn't too bad.
Back to my original thought about this place being inexpensive, for our date night it didn't quite turn out that way. Our bill was $50. Seems crazy when you're expecting to eat $3 tacos! In total, here's what was on our bill.
6 tacos
1 chorizo queso dip
2 margaritas
1 beer
1 guacamole
1 rice
$60 (once you include the tip) for dinner for two is a little expensive for my liking (and for my wallet) but I'm glad we tried it.
I wouldn't say Barrio is on my top-5 favorite restaurants, but it's definitely something worth checking out. It has a fun atmosphere and the food is good (if you like tacos).
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