One of my favorite Mexican restaurants is Taqueria Mexico. Tonight my friends and met up there, only to discover it's no longer Taqueria Mexico--The restaurant is now called Las Garzas. I recognized the staff waiting tables--the same crew from the prior establishment. The menu is no longer umpty pages long. It's just 4 pages, which made me worry they'd removed some items. It looks like most of the food from the old menu is on the new one, only minus all the photos and detailed descriptions. I did see that the queso fundido is no long on the menu. Instead they have "cheese dip" which is NOT the same thing. Also missing is the Hawaiian ribeye, which I guess makes sense, since Hawaii is about as far from Mexico as you can get, but dang it, it was so good!
We asked our server if we could still get the queso fundido. She said, yes, but I don't think she ever understood that we were actually ordering it, as it never came out. Sadness descended on our table.
I wanted the Pollo a la Parilla, the mesquite grilled half chicken that I've ordered several times before. I didn't see that on the menu but they had "grilled chicken." I assumed that was the same thing. It wasn't. Turns out I'd ordered sliced chicken breast over salad greens with slices of avocado. It tasted well enough, but it was nothing like the mesquite grilled chicken I was used to. More sadness.
The combo plate (traditional Tex Mex) was fine, and the sopes were okay, but not good enough to overcome the Table Sadness. I'm not saying we'll never be back, but this is no longer my favorite Mexican restaurant. There are other favorite dishes from the old Taqueria Mexico that I want to keep getting, assuming they made it to the new menu. read more