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| - Los Dos is a pillar of the Mesa culinary community that began in the late '80s or early '90s. A tasty and spicy pillar to be sure. Get ready to shift into Happiness.
It's a homey Cantina style atmosphere. The staff is friendly and not above having fun with you. So smile as they come to your table, give them that knowing look, and place that large Kick Ass Margarita order. It's a winning formula EVERY... SINGLE... TIME!
The Kick Ass is the +1 Star kicker to the Los Dos Molinos experience.
A typical meal at Los Dos will run you approx $9-13 bucks. In the waning months of 2017, that's pretty darn reasonable. If you think otherwise you might want to get back on your bike and peddle to Jack in the Box. Or go back in time. But there's just no damn sense to you.
Now strap in because when the menu indicates spicy, it means that New-Mexico-slow-burn-steady-escalation type-a-spicy. Mmmmmmm. It's just perfect to me, but I do loves me some spicy food. There are non-spicy dishes available and in my experience the dishes are explosively flavorful.
The two tasty types of salsa they bring to your table will give you a foreshadowing of the spicy things to come. If you are a Mild-Sider, best to pay good attention to the menu.
The pedestrian Mexican fare, you know... tacos, tostadas, etc, ranges from fair to quite good. But, fine people, I would be horribly remiss if I did not steer you toward their House Specials. Can't go wrong with any of them. I am particularly fond of Shrimp Veracruz, Adovada Ribs, Carnitas, and the Red or Green Chili plate. Perfection each and every one.
Los Dos also has a menu section called Victoria's Specials. {In general, I'm a fan of Victoria's ANYTHING, but back to the food information.} There's some crazy tasty items on there as well. The Tamale Dinner gives you an opportunity to mix and match from their selection of awesome in-house-made tamales. My favs are the Adovada, Red Beef, and the Green Corn. Oh my! You may get so hooked that you'll head home with a dozen frozen. Did I mention the RPB? Well, the Roast Pork Burro is exceptional; I get mine Green: RPGB. Tender, tasty, just.. transporting.
3 Things I stay away from here.
Tacos - The Los Dos taco shell is not to my liking. My ideal taco has seasoned, shredded beef with the corn tortilla shell fried around that tasty beef. There are just Toooooo too many other stellar items on the Los Dos menu from which to select. Not gonna settle for a subpar taco shell. Ain't happenin'.
Cheese Crisp - The cheese crisp game is far from crisp. Floppy, needs viagra.
Jalapeno Poppers - I've been making my own poppers so long that I may just be a snob. I did try one again last Wednesday night because friends from Seattle wanted to try them. Hard-pass opinion renewed. Plate appeal was lacking: they were very well done... overly done, darrrrkly over done. And the taste, well sadly, was bland.
But HEY! Forget those quibbling things. Damn near ashamed I mentioned them. Truth, whacha gonna do.
Anyway-- Go get yourself a Victoria's- or House-Special. And for the love of God, do NOT forget the Kick Ass Margarita.
You see friends and neighbors, among the other reviews is someone complaining about the wrong food coming from the kitchen to their table. That person did not get a Kick Ass Margarita. Mistakes happen, you make 'em too. Relax. Order that Kick Ass. Love your server and they will love you back.
Enjoy.
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