John M.
Yelp
In the Santa Clara area for business and was traveling with a colleague to waste time at a trade show instead of going out to meet customers and get some orders. Sorry, I have already digressed and usually that is much later in my reviews...
It was up to me to find somewhere to eat for dinner after the agony of the very slow and unattended trade was over for the day. I used to work for a company that had their HQ in Santa Clara and we would go to Pedros quite often while in town for meetings and customer visits. So, I thought, what the heck, let's give it a go and see if it is as good as I remember. When we were walking in, the colleague who was the driver and was given the name and location by me to get us there said, "I ate here yesterday." What? I offered to go to another place, but he said he had enjoyed it last night and wanted to try something else on the menu. Well, that's a good sign. Don't you think?
We checked in with the host and were guided to a table by our waitress, Dulce. Dulce recognized the colleague from the night before and that was kind of funny. We sat at our table and Dulce gave us menus and later brought water and chips and salsa while we decided what to have.
The chips and salsa were very good. Thin, warm crunchy chips. Three salsas were all delicious with none of them being overly spicy. I could have used one with more spice, but I did not ask for something like that and likely could have. One of the salsas was very smokey and that one was my favorite. Try them all!
The colleague had ordered the mole enchiladas the night before and he really liked them. He had a hard time doing it, but he ordered something else and as soon as Dulce walked away, he had a brief regret of not getting them again. What he ordered was the two choice combo with a chili relleno, the red sauce chicken enchilada and chose the vegetables instead of rice. For me, I was craving my memory of their sizzling mixed fajita plate with shrimp and steak, but the combo was not on the menu so I decided to ask and see if I could do that. Before our server came back to the table, I had suddenly changed my mind and went for the chili verde, one of my favorite Mexican food items. Passed on the rice and asked only for beans.
Our order was taken and before we could put our napkins in our laps, the food was placed before us and the plates and food were very hot! Don't touch the plate hot. Your lips or tongue would stick to the plate hot. HOT. We waited a bit before digging in.
I took a chunk of the pork from the chili verde and after blowing on it, stuffed it into my mouth. The inside of the chunk was not hot, it was molten lava! I almost had to spit it out, which would have been really cool in front of the colleague. I did the mouth open, push the lava around with the tongue so it doesn't stay in one place to burn anything, inhaling and exhaling to cool things off, before I could chew the chunk and swallow. Whew. Slow down tiger and let it cool off some more.
Chili Verde - very, very good. Tasty, pork cooked perfectly, nice spice. I did not use any tortillas with it, since I just wanted to taste the chili verde. Yum. You will not be disappointed, you will love it and then you will send me a note on Yelp saying, "thank you, thank you, thank you, for telling me to get the chili verde. You are so awesome"
You are welcome.
The colleague liked the chili relleno and the enchilada. The highlight for him was the grilled vegetables that had a great spice and he really enjoyed them. Made me regret not giving them a try. Perhaps next time.
Dulce was a great server, friendly and took good care of us while we were there. Thanks!
Go. Eat Well. HAVE FUN!
p.s. I completely zoned out and only took one picture of the empty part of the restaurant. It's empty because we were there for a very early dinner.