Got a TapOnItQC text coupon Wednesday for BOGO at La Flama. ($ 7.50 max value) Never been there and have driven by many times. Me and friend went about 5:15 and picked any table we wanted to sit at she said. The waitress was friendly, attentive and waited after we got drinks to let us decide on menu. I ended up deciding on the chicken enchiladas verde Wed/Thurs special and he got the ground beef chimichanga Wed/Thurs special for $9.00 each. Both come with beans and rice. My friend told her on a separate ticket he wanted one beef burrito and one beef soft taco to go for his lunch tomorrow. The waitress brought a basket of chips and a jug of red salsa with a thumb controlled slider spout with our drinks and two black molcajete bowls for the salsa. My friend took a chip and a dip of salsa before me and his eyes watered and started coughing. I took a tiny chip and dipped just a little on the edge. Unbelievably HOT!! Glad we had our pops already. It was so hot there is no way to eat that stuff. The waitress came back to get our dinner orders and I asked if there was anything milder than that stuff. It was on fire and inedible. She stated it's made fresh everyday by him (must be owner) and every batch is different. She said they had a tomatillo based green salsa we could try in another pour jug. I said fine. I also asked for a small guacamole ($2.50) so we would have something to dip the chips and try to cool my mouth off while waiting for our entrees. Waited and waited and finally a cold jug of green tomatillo sauce with thumb slider spout was delivered and another black bowl. It was light green like it had sour cream in it. I thought that looks cool and soothing. It wasn't much better on the heat. So we just shoved all of it to the side of the table, gave up and waited for the guacamole. I was getting real concerned about how hot my enchiladas verde was going to be. Guac never came. Service bombing now! The place was starting to fill up and get busy. I thought I saw her with a bowl of guacamole in her hand, but damn, went the other way to another table. Next thing she was bringing our entrees which were hot and fresh and she offered refills on pops. I asked about my guacamole and she said, "She didn't bring it?" ( Who is she??) I thought you were our waitress. I had hinted I wanted guacamole to go with the chips since none of the salsas were edible. I guess she didn't realize that even with a basket of chips in the middle of the table and all the jugs of salsa and bowls piled up on the edge. I said nevermind. Too late now. Forget it. My enchiladas were swimming in green verde sauce, coated with crumbled cheese, and strizzles of sour cream. Laid in a row on top were three raw, white, onion rings as garnish. The rice was in a tight, round mound with a sea of runny refried beans around it. It looked pretty but was too hot with all that green chili sauce. I ate 3/4 of one enchilada and kept scooping up rice to try to cool my mouth. The beans were nasty with chunks of fairly firm pinto bean floating around. Were not pureed well enough and still chunky. Not much flavor either. I scooped the cheese and sauce off the top of the other two enchiladas and broke open the tortilla and tried to eat the chicken from the inside to have somewhat of a dinner. My friend's beef chimichanga was soggy and wet. I think it may have been wrapped and deep fried, but then when they smothered it all in red sauce and cheese it made it all soggy. He ate 1/3 of it, two scoops of beans and half the rice, then threw his napkin over it and said, "I'm done." "Me too." We looked for the waitress and waited for the check and to use my BOGO coupon. She came to see how it was and I didn't tell her the truth. We asked about his to go order and she was going to go check. In the meantime we watched other tables, even an older couple in their 60's, just gobbling down the salsa and chips. A family of four was digging in even with grade school aged children. The older couple got their food and the man poured the salsa over his tostadas and she was dumping it in rows over her tacos. How can all these people being gobbling down salsa? Ours was extremely hot and inedible. Then I noticed the cap colors of their thumb controlled slider spouts were all red. Ours was orange. I think the waitress gave a us the super duper hot salsa they may reserve for serious Mexican customers that want super hot salsa. Orange= Habanero?
Now the bill was another mess. Brought it and I was shocked at the total. Figured out she put my friend's take home lunch on there after he told her it was a separate ticket when he ordered. Then I see small guacamole, which we never got and I told her to forget it since the meals came. Then she didn't give me the TapOnItQC discount. Tapped REDEEM button. Got that fixed, took off guacamole, but I looked and discount was $ 7.01. I guess $ .49 7% tax on a discount. Not going back. What a mess! read more