Becky L.
Yelp
Came here with friends on a Friday for lunch, and it was a great time to go because of the lunch specials.
They don't skimp on the complimentary salsa and chips--when we started nearing the end of the chips, they already started replacing them both with another round of fresh chips and salsa without any prompting.
I got the Arrachera Durango (Mexican skirt steak with mexican rice, chorizo, grilled Mexican street corn, pico de gallo, guacamole, & corn tortillas). The skirt steak was more cooked than requested, but still good: definitely enjoyed the street corn as it didn't skimp on the cheese. Overall good variety on a plate.
I shared the tacos lunch special too (al pastor, cochinita, birria). All decent, but the birria was definitely my favorite: the beef, cheese, and the consome sauce altogether such an indulging combo.
And to say that they were both lunch specials, $13 each, including fountain drink--what a good deal.
My friends said that ordering churros ($6) were a must here and they were definitely right. Super fresh, hot and crispy on the outside and doughy soft on the inside. Came with two dipping sauces of chocolate and dulce/coconut. To be honest, the churros were already encrusted in sugar, so the churros by themselves were already great.
The waitress that attended to us was nice but spoke mostly in Spanish. I do wonder if the language barrier got in the way of my experience: although the waitress used English to ask if I wanted the steak medium, medium rare, etc., and I said medium, but the steak still came out well done. Since the lunch special included a fountain drink, I tried to ask for a lemonade, but I got a bowl of lime wedges instead. As the reviewers have said, service can be a little slow, took about 2 hrs total from getting there to getting/finishing our entrees and dessert.
Plenty of seating available, free parking available in a nearby covered parking garages
Looking at the menu, the prices of the non-lunch specials made me more hesitant about whether I'd come here on a non-lunch special day. But I would be interested to come back for their weekday lunch specials or their all you can eat taco nights Tues/Thurs. Overall: enjoyable food, nice but slow service that can a bit more difficult if you don't speak Spanish, but good enough for me to come back again!