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| - I am so happy that I remembered about this restaurant. Nestled in a non-descript strip mall in front of Home Depot, it is easy to just overlook this little gem. It has all the tchotchky associated with your typical Mexican restaurant, but with some more authentic nods to their ancestry in the form of some original paintings. Entering into the restaurant, you will notice that the dining area is L-shaped with the small leg being the bar seating and the long leg being the traditional dining area -- both sections separated by the Host's stand.
We were seated in one of the many booths that lined the wall and began to review what we wanted. All of the servers speak English, and they make an effort to speak it but you can see that it is still somewhat difficult for them -- every now and then I would slip in some Spanish when I would see that "What?!?" look pop up on their face. Seeing the cheese dip on the menu, we ordered that with flour tortillas when we ordered our drinks. The drinks, chips and salsa, and the cheese sauce came out immediately. HOORAY! The cheese was WHITE! It wasn't yellow or stringy like the cheese sauce I have received at so many Mexican restaurants I have been to recently. THANK YOU! We placed our order for the rest of our meal:
Chicken soup (no pico de gallo)
Steak burrito with different sauce sides
Steak burrito with salsa de queso
Chicken quesadilla
The chips were thin, crisp and warm. The salsa had flavor, and a good consistancy but lacked any piquancy. The combination was wonderful in my mouth. Adding the supple cheese sauce to my palate only made me want more. The cheese sauce was light and saucy -- not too watery or too thick -- and had a touch of piquancy and an additional layer of flavor beyond the cheese. As I gorged myself on the chips and cheese, the soup arrived. I tried some but was not too fond of it. I went back to my cheese dip. The soup arrived and again my attention was diverted from the cheese dip. The soup had a decent flavor to it: chicken, chicken broth, vegetables. And it did not have that sodium laden taste that most soups have acquired over the years.
I finally decided that if I ate too many of the chips, that I wouldn't be able to finish my meal; so I left one or two chips in the basket and waited for the rest of the food to arrive. Our quesadilla arrived with the burritos. I was eyeing my burrito with a passion. I had asked for several different sides of sauce to compare: green mole, red mole, and tomatillo sauce. This, for me, is the true test of authenticity of a Mexican restaurant -- can they make a good Mexican sauce/mole.
I didn't really care for the red mole -- no surprise there, but I figured I would give it a try. The green mole and the tomatillo sauce were both good. The green mole was a bit thick and had a bit of a bitter flavor to it. It was a mild mole. The tomatillo sauce was also mild but was more tangy/acidic than it was bitter. I truly enjoyed the sauces due to their flavor. I experimented and mixed the two into different versions and found that different ratios only improved the flavor -- in my mind.
The steak in the burrito wasn't rubbery and had good flavor. Add in the green sauces and I was in heaven. I ate only half the burrito -- darn chip and cheese indulgence. I did manage to try some of the quesadilla. It is fairly basic in its composition: cheese, tortilla, chicken. This is GOOD. The flavors, while basic, were quite good -- especially with the addition of a little of their fresh-made salsa.
I am happy to have found this restaurant and will continue to return!
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