Alex J.
Yelp
What has gone wrong with this restaurant? I'd say that it has gone downhill, but that would infer that it was on a hill in the first place. Prior to this last visit, the food was average. Now it's subpar at best. Coming here was convenient because it was close to home. Definitely not a destination for fine cuisine. It was a place where you could get filled up and not be worried of the consequences.
That was then, and this is now. If you intend to visit Pacos, be prepared to encounter the new reality and the drastically sad consequences. I mentioned the food earlier, and now it's time to expand on that. I ordered the #5, one taco, and one enchilada. They serve it with obligatory rice and beans. My plate arrived with a thin enchilada buried in rice and a taco thrown on top. By thin, I mean that the sauce was thicker than the entree itself! Trying to eat the thing was as difficult as finding it on the plate. The cheese was like chewing gum but with no flavor. The taco? Well I had to eat it with a fork. There was no chance of it holding together after sitting on the gumchilada sauce. What a farce this place is.
I thought that I'd save the best for last. For my plate of food substitute, and let me remind you, one enchilada and one taco, rice, and beans.....are you ready... $19.95! Talk about dropping a bar of soap in the shower! Get ready, it ain't gonna be pretty.
Give this hole a wide berth. It's nothing but a stain on the map of culinary experience.
Quick Tip: We called to make reservations, remembering that on Saturday nights it could get very busy. But again, that was then, and this is now. We were told that they could accommodate a party of nine with no problem, no reservation needed. We should have taken that as motivation to seek another option. I wish we had. As it turned out, they could have accommodated five groups of nine. There was that much availability. Or maybe I should say, that many crickets.