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| - What an excellent find! A cute place off of downtown Mesa. When my husband and I got there, we were impressed to see that the place was not your typical just average Mesa style restaurant. This place looks like some of those little mom and pop shops in downtown Scottsdale! When you arrive, you wait to get seated. They prepare the table for you and ask you to come in. We decided to sit at the patio cause it wasn't super cold tonight. While walking to the patio, I noticed a long bar like table in the middle of the place and other tables on the side. Everyone is so welcoming when you come in, even when we arrived 35 min before close!
We were given time to go over the menu and then our waiter came to take our drink orders and go over some menu options with us since it was our first time. He was very patient and explained a lot of dishes to us and made recommendations for some of their best dishes. The menu is not extensive but they have a good selection of appetizers, mains, tortas and of course Empanadas.
We ordered the Posole soup with chicken. It comes with a lot of toppings to add on top, kinda like Pho. It is served also with a piece of bread. This soup was so good. It's like a great pick me up soup after a long day or on a cold night, warm and very comforting. We also ordered the Yuca Fritas. I had never tried Yuca before. It's a more starchy version of potatoes almost, (for the people who like me, don't know what Yuca is). It was served with an excellent house ranch dip. For our mains, we decided to order the chicken, mushroom and kalamata olive empanadas and the potato empanadas. Out of the two, the potato one was my favorite, especially with their homemade green salsa!
Prices were very good. At the beginning we thought the food we ordered won't be enough, especially since we were super hungry but our waiter was right in recommending our portions, we ended up eating everything and we felt full.
Service is beyond excellent. Tonight, I saw maybe 7 different people take care of us one way or another till we were done with our meal. The patio seating area looked so pretty tonight and they had a heater turned on for me because I was feeling cold, and that's when they over heard me saying I was cold! That's service!
This place just started off the weekend for me on an excellent note. So happy to have found it and will be going there again for sure! Definitely worth trying!
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