I've been wanting to try this place for a while now since it's in my hood and mexican food inhabits a special place in my heart.
This food had a lot of good points and some that left more to be desired... My first impression was that of the "Chips & Dips" comprising of seasoned tortilla chips (I personally don't like seasoned tortilla chips but they're better than none at all) with a tomato salsa, guacamole, and sour cream.
Guacamole-tasty
sour cream-really good as it had something mixed in with it
tortilla chips-you know my thoughts
Salsa-sad... it had a paste-y consistency of a pasta sauce and bordered on sweet rather than fresh and punchy. The salsa should be the cornerstone of a Mexican restaurant, its pride and joy, that which they can bottle up and sell-i'm not likely to get it again.
Then I received my chicken chimichanga and was happy to see it with a plop of guacamole and sour cream at either end! Really good flavor! All the meals are served with rice and beans, both extremely nice sides. It was a big portion so I felt we shouldn't have gotten a starter (no one likes that too-full-feeling, and to be honest I'm still feeling full the morning after) I also had a beer, so that was a contributor to my engorged feeling. There was a surprisingly good beer and drink menu.
Now comes the service portion of this review...
I have mixed feelings, as they were all really nice and friendly servers, but there were so many of them for what was a small amount of patrons. They were all a bit over-eager to serve and overly attentive (ending EVERY visit to the table with an "anything else?") so we weren't always dealing with the same person, creating some awkward exchanges. I think this will get better with time, as they are just young'uns, after all.
The manager gave us our bill with an added treat of a sipping shot, for no particular reason other than they want us to come again and bring more people. It was a classy and effective move on his part as I felt it warranted a good review and a second-coming! read more