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| - White Eyes is located on the NE corner of 59th Ave and the 101 just south of Albertsons. The inside is tiny with about 6 tables for 2. The menu is simple. FryBread with choices of green chile pork, carne asada, red chile beef, chicken, and vegetarian. The bread comes with your choice of meat, beans, and toppings from lettuce, cheese, peppers, dice chile, olives, onions, salsa and sour cream.
I have tried the carne asada, the green chile, and the red chile. The bread is good. It is fluffy and a little chewy. Not the best bread I have had but definitely worthy. The green chile was the best out of the three toppings I have had. Flavorful, a tiny bit of heat and some nice chunks of pork. The red chile had no heat at all and was a bit bland. The carne asada was dry and over cooked. It tasted like it had been on the grill for a very long time and reheated multiple times. I cook carne asada on the regular and know when it is fresh and when it is reheated. What I was given was definitely not cool to be serving to a customer. The beans were generic store bought refried beans. It appears they also have homemade beans as an option. The toppings were also store bought and either came out of a bag or a can.
The lady at the counter is very friendly and nice and for that I am rounding up to 3. The food was all very average for me and borderline cafeteria quality. It is right between two to three stars. After trying three different items I wouldn't recommend it as it is very simple and could easily be made at home with fresher ingredients. For 9 bucks a pop I expect freshly grated higher quality cheese, homemade beans (get rid of the canned beans altogether), fresh cooked carne asada, fresh chopped roasted green chiles, maybe even something else like diced fresh tomatoes. That would gain my repeat business. If you are craving Fry Bread there aren't many choices anywhere near this place and it's cool to have the option. I just wish they would step it up a notch. They also offered a variety of dessert frybreads but I have not had them. The owners seem like nice people and I wish them well and hope they make some small changes in the quality department and thrive.
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