This restaurant is the first I’ve visited that is essentially indistinguishable from mexican restaurants in San Diego, notwithstanding the young white manager who walked in with his laptop and started chatting up with the chicano girls running the cashier, and the plaid red/white plastic table coverings.

The carne asada rule is as follows: if a restaurant can succeed in making a good carne asada taco, they can do all other things well. With the exception of the pollo taco, which I assume was an old and soggy batch of chicken, they did all things well. Rice and beans tasted like home. Great tacos. Good double shelled yellow corn street tortillas heated on meat fat con cilantro y cebolla. Carne asada, mucho gusto. Carnitas, mucho gusto. Lengua, mucho gusto. Salsa, great. Horchata, ordinary. Fútbol en las televisiones y música hispañola en la cocina. Mexicanos y mexicanas comen a las mesas distribuido distanciada. Me recuerde como estoy en casa, en Escondido, solamente media milla.

5 de Marzo, 2024

Longmont, Colorado