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| - I am puzzled and intrigued by this Mexican restaurant. The kitchen area takes up at least half of the space, which is cool but also strange. You order at the counter, then find a seat among mismatched furniture and Latin-American knick-knacks, fake flowers, and fountains. You wait ... and wait ... and wait. And then you're brought your food, and it is good. REALLY good.
Quite a few negatives with this place. I'll get those out of the way first.
1. The aforementioned long wait, for .. what? A burrito. Well, two burritos. The guy with the cowboy hat apologized and said that they'd run out of rice. Huh? At a restaurant where rice is pretty much the common factor among all dishes? And at 6 pm on a Saturday, when you know you're going to have a high volume of customers? (Yet, another reason the wait threw us for such a loop was because we were one of only three parties in there, and one had already gotten their food by the time we'd ordered.)
2. The flies. Ugh. I hate bugs in general, and am actually afraid of them. I won't eat anything a fly has already landed on. So there were times that I was actually darting flies at the table and moving my plate around so that they wouldn't decide to pop a squat on my burrito.
3. Although the listing claims the restaurant is good for kids (and it very well may be, for older kids) there are no high chairs. So we had to hold a squirmy baby and attempt to feed her from that position. Kind of annoying and probably the major reason we won't be returning.
4. Bottled water only (not free). But actually, thinking of the overall skeeviness factor of the place, I'd probably better count that as a positive because I'm not sure I'd want to drink their tap water.
Now, onto the positives:
1. VERY GOOD FOOD! The burrito was ginormous and oh so tasty. I got the avocado-lime burrito with chicken. Everything tasted amazing. My only qualm? It was very, very wet. It came in just a tin foil wrapper plopped on a plate -- which is fine -- but we weren't given silverware and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to pick this monster up and put it into my mouth. Not to mention that it had something on the outside -- it almost seemed like some kind of liquid and then sprinkled with sugar, oddly enough -- so that it was completely impractical to try to use my hands for this. But it tasted great.
2. There were two young women who helped us -- one taking the order and another who stepped in after we'd been there for a bit who got us silverware and wrapped our leftovers. They were very kind and seemed like fun people.
So, will I try El Tango again? Not to dine in again, probably ever. It just wasn't really worth it, in my opinion, because it wasn't an enjoyable atmosphere and wasn't appropriate for the baby. And it's not the type of place I'd want to waste on a date night, because it's not special enough. But the food was great, so I will definitely consider takeout in the future.
Although I really have to stop thinking about those flies.
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