Glenn C.
Yelp
Please, please, please, bring back the salsa bar!
This is one of my three favorite Mexican-style restaurants, and would easily rate a full five stars except that Covid has killed their single best feature, the wonderful salsa bar, and apparently they have decided it won't come back. This is a minor tragedy, in my opinion, since the plentiful supply of several different delicious salsas made La Casita what it was.
The food is still wonderful. I've been eating at La Casita since it was a single location on South Nevada, and as far as I can tell the food hasn't changed a bit. A lot of reviewers don't seem to "get" this place, since it isn't the usual guacamole-and-sour-cream drenched Tex-Mex style most Americans are accustomed to. However, the ingredients are all fresh, delicious, and are assembled in the right proportions to make for excellent eating.
My go-to is the chicken soft taco plate. (The "tacos" are rolled like small burritos, and I guess they don't actually call it this any more on the menu, but they know what I'm asking for. Knife-and-fork food, not finger food). The rice and beans are both excellent by themselves, and the juicy, perfectly-seasoned chicken soaks the tortillas, the flavors combining with whatever tasty salsas you select to make for absolute deliciousness.
The nachos are also excellent (again, not conventional guac-and-sour-cream American-style nachos, but extremely tasty) requiring only the complement of the late, lamented salsa bar for peak deliciousness.
Along with the salsa bar, I wish they would bring back proper metal utensils, the flimsy plastic knives and forks they now provide are not a good match for the food one is attempting to cut and spear.
Prices have gone up, way up. La Casita used to be a great deal. Now, it's still great food, and I'd be much more satisfied paying ten bucks a plate for counter service if the salsa bar hadn't been taken away, but it's no bargain. I still recommend it, but please, please, please bring back the salsa bar.