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| - Tired of Toxic Bell, or restaurants that claim to be Mexican, but serve food that can be found nowhere in Mexico? Then this is THE place for you, even if you can't pronounce the restaurant's name!
The menu includes all the dishes you'd expect at an American restaurant: burritos, tacos, fajitas et cetera et cetera, blah blah blah. But the enormous menu, literally pages long, includes many dishes you've probably never heard of, unless you happen to have spent a lot of time in Mexico.
Your meal starts out with complimentary chips, refried beans and very VERY spicy salsa. It was a bit much, even for me, but our server very happily and quickly replaced it with a slightly tamer version. The chips are made in-house, as are the tortillas, a nice touch that makes a big difference.
We ordered from the lunch menu, which is available from 11:00 to 3:00. It contains a plethora of items from the dinner menu at different price ranges, and doesn't include some of the extras that the dinner menu provides, like the bowl of chicken noodle soup that comes with the pricier dinner menu items.
If there's shrimp on the menu, you KNOW that's what I'll have. I've had the Camarones Borrachos (drunken shrimp), made with tequila and simply delicious, but not available on the lunch menu (I could have ordered from the dinner menu, but couldn't justify that much $$ for lunch), so I ordered the Camarones Saradeados, large shrimp cooked perfectly in a sauce that I'd never heard of. It's made from roasted peppers, undisclosed spices and a touch of mayonnaise, and they could bottle this stuff and make a fortune selling it! It was in the pricier category, but worth every peso and then some! My husband, whose palate is more conventional, ordered chicken fajitas, which came to table beautifully charred and sizzling. Both orders included beans, rice and house-made guacamole, the fajitas came with those yummy house-made tortillas. We had margaritas with lunch, labeled small but actually ample.
The restaurant itself is clean, well located, and with ample parking. The service is friendly and prompt, and the prices are reasonable. The voluminous menu includes Mexican delicacies like beef tongue, and they offer menudo on the weekends for those of you who may have partied a leeeeeetle too hard on the Strip the night before. It's a local place that, unfortunately for them, is unknown to tourists. If you're here from out of town misbehaving though, this is one off-Strip place that's definitely worth the short taxi ride - it's just minutes from the Strip. Do NOT miss this jewel!
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