This is my second trip here, only because when we came Saturday, they were closed. We showed up about 7:10 and it appears they closed at 7. Shame on me for not paying attention to the Yelp page, but what kind of restaurant closes in a downtown location on a Saturday at 7pm?
I get it, I assume this is a husband-wife location and you can tell by the hours, they could be the only employees, but that is just too early to close on a Saturday based on location and your intent to build a base.
That out of the way, let's get into the food, the menu has all of the favorites. I was tempted to get the chicken flautas, but they had potatoes. I get it, traditional flautas are con papas. But I just like chicken with guacamole. This place didn't appear to have that either, so I went with the taco special. That was 5 street tacos for $12.
It was an impressive plate, the tacos were stuffed with meat, and the plate had fried onion, fried pepper as well as pickled peppers and carrot. I give these guys an A for Portion and Price, but the flavor was a C at best. After 2 tacos I really didn't want to go on, but since I paid for it, I decided to eat it. The tacos also came with two hot sauces, and this is where the disappointment hit home. You can have a mediocre taco, but if your hot sauce is fire, you breath new life into your platter. Unfortunately, I didn't care for the hot sauces. The red had a nice kick, but it was tangy, if not tart. I like a fiery sauce, no tart or tang.
The green sauce had a slight sweet tint to it. Again, I don't like sweet and meat, but I'm sure some would love it. I have to be blunt, I didn't like the food and if I recall, this could have been a Mexican place before this couple took over and the previous place didn't impress either, hence them .The Mexican place across the street used to be good, but after more than 30 years, it closed a couple years ago. There is yet another place around the corner, that doesn't appear to draw a crowd and I wonder how long it will survive.
These menus may be Mexican, but the recipes are not, anyone that went to Mexico for this would be wholly disappointed. Where is the flavor, the zip, dare I say the heritage.
I hate to do this to hard working people, but with so many Mexican failures on this very block, if you can't do better, I would expect you to be closed before your lease is even complete.
I only had one item, but based on the flavor and weak condiment sauces, I don't see the point in coming back. It's getting old having to drive 30 miles for decent Mexican food, but for some reason no one close to me wants to make anything that tastes like what you would expect from an abuela's kitchen. read more