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| - Everyone's got their favorite combo at their favorite Mexican restaurant. Go with them and they'll lean in with a whisper: "get the #6. and ask for it with cheese instead of beef! add onions!" Watch their eyes glisten.
so here's what you actually want to do.. go with the special combination! swap the chile relleno out for a chile poblano! and ask for the burrito with extra sauce and own its own plate!
Then fall back into the cushions of the rickety booths and bask in the tacky decor, which keeps you from seeing most of the restaurant and the mall-shopping families that bring their 5 kids. Enjoy the crisp-if-oily chips and fresh salsa. Alternate drops of red and green hot sauce but apply sparingly.. it's hot!
The special combination arrives no more than 10 minutes after ordering--the service is on point throughout; you'll want for nothing and they don't care to be you friend. Here's how you proceed:
1) Be stunned: 3 plates (if you used the burrito-alone trick) packed with food. It's ok, you won't finish it. At $13.75, you get to taste everything worthwhile (not the tamale) from in the smaller combos and pick your favorites.
2) Go after the poblano. It will be piping hot, the beautiful fried crust still light, the pepper still juicy and bursting with well-balanced spice from the enchilada sauce, and the queso fresco still running across the plate. Best item on the menu.
3) Alternate bites of the cheese enchilada (the chicken gets dry and you'll have enough beef in the burrito) and beef taco. Both must be eaten hot but neither are as important as the poblano. The enchilada's brown sauce again works with the queso, and the rustic taco is tightly balanced.
4) At this point, you don't need to finish any of the remaining items. The burrito is where I go next but it's up to you. I like the tomato+onion sauce but not with my other items (hence it's own plate), and they usually don't add enough--the burrito will be dry. That's why you asked for extra sauce.
5) The tostada is last as it's a salad, can be eaten cold without any loss of flavor or texture, even if it's plain. The beans are decent though they need salt and the rice is occasionally dry.
keep going until you can't. that's how you do it. go do it.
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