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| - I so wanted to like Luchita's. My husband and I went many years back (15, maybe?) and remembered it as very good. When we saw a Groupon that would save us some money, we decided to revisit it (it's a drive for us, and we chose the West Side location rather than the closer one in Hudson.) We went to celebrate my husband's birthday. Sadly, we found little to inspire enthusiasm. The frozen magaritas seemed good (though expensive) to me, but my husband and his friend thought that the alcohol content was less than it should be for the price. The food was. . .actually, a step below "meh," although certainly not "eek!" We ordered different dishes--chile rellenos, a combo plate (enchilada/taco/burrito), and fajitas, as well as appetizers. The calamari was tough and much less than abundant. (Sort of like chewing your pencil eraser, if you ever indulged in that in grade school.) The combo items and chile rellenos were fairly indistinguishable from one another, except that the taco seemed both soggy and stale and that the chile rellenos were overly salty and too cake-y. The fajitas seemed to include poor quality meat and veggies--my husband complained that we could have made a tastier meal at home. We tried to improve the flavor of our food by dousing it with salsa. We asked for the "really hot" salsa which was--let's say three stars out of five when it comes to heat.
The sole good point was that our server was attentive and friendly. (Our busboy, however, was very grim and almost depressing!) We must hold the minority opinion about the food, though--the place was packed by 6 pm on a Friday night, and the noise level rose beyond our tolerance limit. (We like to hear one another without shouting--and to refrain from hearing those at nearby tables discuss their battles with foot fungus, Montezuma's Revenge, and irritating colleagues.)
Even a much better Groupon would not persuade us to return, I'm afraid. Our expectations were not very high, but I think we could have done as well at Taco Bell. (And we don't like Taco Bell!) Glory is fleeting. . .
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