I have, or should now say "have been," as I likely will NOT RETURN, to this Adobe for over 20 years.
Throughout the years, many changes occurred and I gave them the benefit of doubt, with this being said, & Chance upon Chance within the past 4 years...
-Going Back To When Things Were Spectacular-
-Sooo, Wayyy back when, they used to have an actual dine in restaurant directly across the steeet from this take out facility. They had a full service bar and even, on an occasional weekend, would have live bands/entertainment, and what not, along with opening a second "bar" for these rare occasions, on the Far East side of the building. They had a neat small, but just big enough bar, and then ample comfy seating in the bar itself, along with a large dining area that accommodated larger groups & families to dine in.
In the larger dining area, they kept a large black kettle, always HOT & Yummy, on the stove of their homemade bean dip, that was complimentary, along with a basket of homemade warm tortilla chips and homemade salsa.. And that, in itself, was absolutely delicious!
It was a great place to eat! There were cozy&comfortable seating with great service and in a relaxing environment serving excellent food back then with phenomenal prices!
Throughout the years, they must've chosen "greed" as their choice, just as sooo many have and do in the downtown GR area because of peoples greed and money hungry way of life... So, unfortunately, they sold this property and just ran the drive thru.
Obviously, MANY frowned upon this and the all reasoning why, as the price for commercial land was steadily increasing... So it was crystal clear that money came first to these owners, rather than to continue serving the community
it is extremely sad to me that rarely do people stand for what they believe in any more, and just let money be the key premise to their everything!
I wholeheartedly believe that money is truly the "ROOT TO ALL EVIL!!!"
Anyways, so they "spruced" up this Adobe takeout facility that existed all along, a little bit hoping to pull the customers there..
Many, including myself, were in disbelief, disgust, and boycotted the place, more or less.
Next thing you know, an "Adobe-In & Out" take out restaurant (some with small seating areas inside), opened up in several outlying suburban areas, which were all outside of the original (and only..) downtown location..
The ones still residing to date, I believe, are the Leonard and Fuller location (NE GR) and the Chicago Drive/Canal Street location in Grandville-(SW of GR).
The other "hopefuls" didn't make it..
Nonetheless, many of us die hard hopefuls would frequent the Fulton Street location in hopes that it somewhat resembled what the original restaurant, across the street once did. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it never did, but it was about as close as you could get to it.
And NOW...
It is TERRIBLE!
At first, Just like many other stated, I thought it was just a fluke. But, then, time after time after time AFTER TIME, again and again the food was horrific and lacking in every area possible!
it was either burned ground beef, and mostly mainly all tortilla, barely any cheese nor meet and just blander then bland! It was seriously lacking in every way, and just as many others have also stated.. there was never any compensation, nor replacing items. As a matter of fact, you could not even reach anyone 99.9% of the time. There were at least 3 incidents where I sent in a detailed account of what happened, along with pics, spending a lot of time & no response whatsoever...even after spending almost $50 at the drive-thru more than one time w/ major problems. No I won't be back. read more