Reluctant rating for the second El Sol in our county. The original went from family favorite food…read moretruck, then brick & mortar, and now expansion. The one on Division is easily one the top-3 Mex joints in the metro. This one....not quite yet. And that's tricky, because Cheney has real good Mex in this wheat & cow college town. As with the one downtown, the Pozole' is truly amazing, and they have the cahoñes to serve Buche on the menu---which VERY few places in our area do. The Salsa bar is fantastic, too.
Here are the hiccups: No Chips & Salsa complimentary starter. Not a deal breaker for me, but some folks will not like that. Huerache shell was not good. It was very thin, to the point where it was almost an oblong Tostada. Of course I had to have a burrito with Buche, but there was a disappointing amount of pig stomach in it. It was mostly rice. At today's prices, nobody is going to be satisfied with a rice burrito. In addition, most items are ala carte. They do list platters that come with rice & beans, but it's strictly typical stuff, i.e., Enchiladas, Tacos, Rellenos, Carne Asada, etc. If I wanted rice & beans with my meal, it would have cost me an additional $9. Yeah, no. No breakfast burritos offered, either? Kind of unusual, right? Big issue, is the picnic-packages of plastic cutlery they give you with your meal. Knives can't do the job, and food just slides off the forks. Thanks for the metal spoon with the Pozole', though, haha.
Staff is nice, and happy to be here. I'm sure hoping the issues are just because of opening kinks. They are competing with three other--very established--Mex places in Cheney, and the previous other attempts at Mex in this building obviously didn't make it. We'll give'm some settle-in time, and certainly visit again...