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| - Was hoping this place would shine. Having frequented the former tenant Cocomo Joe's, I knew the size of the establishment and potential was there. The makeover is impressive...the food and service...no so.
The "hot" salsa and regular salsa tasted exactly the same temp wise. The ingredients were blasted in a food processor and the consistency was more like watery paste than a chunky, tasty salsa. Missing were onions, cilantro and other, normal robust flavors typical of restaurant salsa, very unimpressive.
Our dinner choices consisted of the Pollo Fundido and the Spicy Chicken Tacos. The pollo fundido, while it had nice chunks of chicken, it tasted more like a fajita with pieces of green and red peppers inside. The fried tortilla was limp and even soggy in some places - gross! Very dry inside, no cheese. The spicy cream cheese is like fondue in that it is poured over the outside of the wrapped tortilla and it just sits there in a thin, unflavorful layer. A better choice is to add flavorful cheese combined with a smooth, creamy, spicy cream cheese mixture. This place obviously believes in pulverizing all of the food components beyond recognition so you truly don't know what is (or isn't in most cases) added for ingredients (refer back to my salsa comments above).
The spicy chicken taco was laughable. It was like they ran to Panda Express and picked up orange chicken and put it in a taco. It was truly orange chicken advertised as a "spicy taco". There was nothing Mexican/authentic about the ingredients of this dish and how they serve this as a Mexican dish or as spicy is beyond one's imagination. We all were laughing about the contents of this dish.
As for the service...our waitress seemed very unsure of herself, was mumbling every time she came to our table. The place was not even 1/4 full and it was ghost-town like.
One thing I've learned about the restaurant business here in Arizona, an empty restaurant at prime time on a Friday night and one that advertises breakfast on Sunday morning that is not a breakfast oriented restaurant in the first place, well it's a reflection of an establishment that is not operating as a success.
We all left sharing our predictions of how long Asado Mexican Kitchen will remain open. Sadly, we all agreed, not much longer without vast improvements at all levels, especially the key components....the menu and ingredients.
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