My daughter had heard great reviews, wanted my wife and I to try it. We had been wanting someone else's Mexican food (I usually make ours). Have not been impressed with Mexican food places in BCS, so we agreed to try it. They had a takeout deal on fajitas. It was a pound of beef or pound of chicken with beans, rice and white queso and corn or flour tortillas. Daughter paid extra and got a pound of beef, pound of carnitas and pound of chicken with corn tortillas.
When she came in with it, it was all in a big aluminum pan. Inside all the meats were wrapped in foil separately. The corn tortillas were in foil. The beans and queso were about a half pint containers, plenty. It included chips, a red and a green salsa, sour cream, pico , cheese and onions. It was all hot.
We started with salsa and chips, they were excellent. Doled out the White queso, could have made a meal on that it was so good. We had flour tortillas fresh m another place heated up and I used one of those. The beef fajita had been ordered with me in mind, so I put some on my tortilla...it was NOT beef fajita. It was carne guisada, I know Mexican food. I did not say anything because I like it as well. I took a bite...and spit it out. It was a chunk of hard fat, it would not even chew. I took a second bite, more of the same. Pretty much ruined it for me. I scrapped it all out and found chunks of soft and tender meat. But I had put some fixings in my tortilla that I would not eat with carne guisada, so it was not good. The tortilla was now cold.
My daughter was watching and I knew she would be upset if I did not enjoy the meal. She had paid for it and went to get it, a lot of trouble. She and my wife were enjoying the chicken. There was not much of that left. So I tried the carnitas. I enjoy carnitas, it just was not my first choice. So I took some pieces of carnitas, and enjoyed it with rice and beans and a flour tortilla. There was still some white queso, so I finished with more of that.
If I had started with carnitas I would have enjoyed the meal. The beans, rice, fixings, queso and my four tortillas would have been a very tasty meal. I give them two stars because it is MY review. If it was my wife and daughter, they would probably give it a hard three. Their big knock would be the corn tortillas were nothing that great, and you take a bite of that every time. The beans were not fresh. There were clumps of beans that were together that had not been warmed up as much as others parts. Like when beans are cooked and then put in a frig, when you scoop some out some of the cold beans clump together. You have to continue to warm them up and stir to get ALL the beans to get broken apart from the chill.
The negative was being prepared to enjoy a beef fajita meal and find carne guisada, after prepping my flour tortilla for beef fajita. Then taking the first two bites and find them to be yucky texture and taste and spitting them out. And then to try a different meat, but not going with a fresh tortilla was a mistake.
The corn tortillas were not "home made", they were some you could buy in HEB or someplace, so no special treat there. Did they run out of beef fajita and substituted carne guisada? Did the employee not know the difference? Is the establishment actually preparing the beef fajita this way?
My wife and daughter were very happy with their meals. The queso, chips and salsas were a big win. But The meal was supposed to be beef fajitas, that was what we paid for, it was thrown away because I would not anymore of it and the wife and daughter do not enjoy beef fajitas.
At this point, I am disappointed. I am unsure if I would give them another shot. Maybe if I went with chicken? But I do not see going in for a second choice, being unsure if I ordered beef fajitas if I would GET beef fajitas. Just go in and get the white queso and chips and salsa is my plan if I visit again, and consider trying the chicken only.
All things considered, before you order beef fajitas, ask to see the product BEFORE you place an order. read more