Adios, Plaza's

Here's another restaurant review.

First, I should say that Western Chula Vista abounds in Mexican cafes.  There are literally hundreds of small restaurants up and down the streets.  Most of them are the informal kind of place where you walk up to the counter, order your meal, go  up and pick it up when it's ready.

That's what Plaza's is.  We first went to it after hearing that it had good caldo, last spring. I think I wrote about it, maybe. And the caldo was good, and Theodore's inevitable two beef tacos were okay too.

Last night we went to Plaza's and had an execrable dinner.  I was already a bit leery of a repeat because we'd eaten there a couple of more times since the spring and it didn't seem quite what it was cracked up to be (clean, with well cooked food). But Theo chose it and I said Fine because he rarely chooses.

His tacos were over fried (hard brown tortillas, dull tasteless beef strings with fried edges showing that it had been refried before serving and after stuffing)...tons of dull lettuce, cheese, and that's it.

My chimichanga was delayed in serving. Here's where they made their big mistake.  Instead of using one large thin flour tortilla, they wrapped that chimichanga in about three, well at least two, thick flour tortillas...that made a BIG chimichanga but also made a leathery gummy interior wrapped around a very small amount of pretty good tasting beef, cheese and onions.  Why can't places realize that less is more?  The chimichanga doesn't have to be, in fact shouldn't be, as big as a small automobile on the plate.  It should be a thin delicious crispy shell for some good-tasting filling. It should be garnished with some lettuce or sauce or, as in this case, the strangest alcohol-tasting guacamole this world ever knew.  Odd, all of it.

The frijoles, my favorite food, were a pile of pallid tasteless mush.  And the rice was white, possibly cooked in water with a chicken feather passed over it, and nothing else.  HORRIBLE.

I could not eat it.  There was a suggestion box on the counter asking for thoughts but I decided they are not worth my opinion.  If they really think that's good food, then all there is to say is ADIOS, PLAZA's.   YAZZYBEL