I'm 100% baffled by the 4 star reviews on here for the quality of the food, manner in which it is served and the overall menu. I get the idea that had we tried the margaritas our take away may have been different, seems those are what "make the meal" for many reviewers. Well, here we go...
Chips are advertised as homemade and are okay, super thin, the salsa was good. I ordered a Blue Moon which was served with no orange. Just something to make a note of since that is pretty much the "norm" when serving this beer.
One dinner order was for the Carne Asada Plate which is Skirt steak / spanish rice / pinto beans / warm flour tortilla and they are not kidding! They literally serve the whole skirt steak piece on the plate, probably to take up space to visually create the illusion that you are actually getting a $20.00 meal. SOME pinto beans and SOME rice. Oh and they graciously serve you ONE tortilla, that's it! We later saw on the menu that if you wanted to order 1 flour tortilla as a side, that would cost you another $2.00 but hey, it's a LARGE one so why not charge extra for that?! Now, not only is it odd and frankly inconvenient to have the skirt steak served in one whole piece so you can spend your meal time getting to cut it all up but the fact that this is sold at a $20.00 price point and there is no pico de gallo, no sour cream, no lime wedge, not even a little cilantro garnish served to add something to the meat and the ONE tortilla you get. This is served "bone dry" and makes this meal very much a let down! There was also a complimentary soup served, a cup of sopa de fideo. It looked like something out of a Lipton soup package and tasted the same, lacking any sort of spices and beautiful tomato flavor that this soup normally boasts.
The other dinner order was a Burrito ($13.99) (see photo) which includes Pinto beans / Spanish rice / Pico de Gallo / cheddar jack / side pickled salad (see photos) / plus your choice of protein (did chicken). The order was placed as described but was requested to be prepped Chimichanga Style +$1.00 for this, they charge you for this so it must be done with great finesse'. Now, most would have made the assumption that meant it would have been deep fried just like a chimichanga , more on that to follow . Also ordered was a side of the $3.00 guacamole (see photo) and sour cream $1.00. Grand total is now $19.00!
The plate was dropped and the curiosity over the side pickled salad was quickly deflated when the plate arrived with a few carrot slivers, LOTS of onion slivers and 1 piece of what was believed to be a green pepper. Taste wise, underwhelming at best much like the visual. Next was the chimichanga style prepared burrito. This looked like something from the Cornish Pastry restaurant and if you've ever been there, you'll know exactly what I mean. It resembled a baked burrito and was not even close to "chimichanga style" hence the grate marks on the outside from it sitting in an oven. Needless to say, that rendered the crust to be not as expected and a let down for the extra $1.00. When cut open there was plenty of the rice and pinto bean filling as noted in the description however, lacking was the cheese and the pieces, yes pieces of chicken were so small they were over powered by everything else inside and was tasteless. Okay lets add that $3.00 guacamole. Dipped my fork into the bowl took a taste and immediately all I tasted was a disgusting mustard flavor. My guest said it was over saturated with vinegar making in inedible. The taste and texture was like something out of a grocery store that was pre-made and had been sitting on the shelf for 2 weeks with no fresh ingredients or chunkiness whatsoever. It was a blended down mixture with no chunks of tomato OR avocado. I even tried to "doctor" it up with the pico on the table and some lime but there was no saving whatever this was, it definitely wasn't homemade guac!
At the end of our meals, we took noticed that the "condiments" were off in the back next to the bathrooms which included Cholula among other options (see photo attached) yet none of these were on the tables. As dry as everything was served, it would be nice to have these out to be used and not sitting next to the bathrooms. At the end of the day, based on the prices being charged versus the quality of the food and the fact that there are no side add-in options included with the meal whatsoever, if you like really dry Mexican food that's overly priced, you'll really like this place.
So looking forward to when Someburros opens up off of Jomax & the I-17, food is overall 100% better and the price point is in line with what is served. read more