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| - I've been going to Serrano's Mexican Food Restaurants ever since I was a little girl. In fact, the Ahwatukee location (now closed) was where I got my 1st job as a server. It's still the place I go when I crave Mexican food, and the place I take everyone from out of town.
I LOVE the food there- my favorites are the new carne asada stuffed chili relleno's, Machacha quesadilla, carne asada tacos (on corn only), and any of the chimichanga's. Their salsa and bean dip is the best (and the bean dip is the reason other places started serving it with their salsa) and can fill you up.
With that being said, their food was definitely better in the past. I'm assuming cost cutting measures in this economy hit them a little hard because the chips are different (maybe healthier? they are not as fried as before and if you want them salty you have to put salt on them), and they give smaller amounts of bean dip & salsa than in the past. The food is still as good, although my boyfriend had the seafood sampler last night and despite being fair, it had definitely been frozen.
What's gotten better? The fried ice-cream. Used to be vanilla ice cream coated in cinnamon corn flakes and fried, but now it's cinnamon ice cream with the same coating and fried. You rarely have enough room for dessert at the end of a meal here, but if you can squeeze it in, don't miss out on the fried ice cream!
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