Three adult plates, two children's plates, one beer, two iced teas, two children's drinks, and endless chips, salsa, and cheese, all for the price of $89, plus the tip. Are you kidding me?
They moved across the street from and old burger drive-in conversion restaurant to an old-style dine-in pizza hut building. First of all, The service was impeccable. Actually, not sure you can find better service at a home-grown Mexican restaurant in the city.
Upon being seated, they served the OKC staple chips, salsa, and queso. And I mean that little guy kept setting these little round bowls of salsa and queso what must have been four per person. I mean, he just kept putting and putting and putting, and he didn't understand me when I said we didn't require any more. Oh well, it was a laugh for our table nonetheless. I thought the chips were perfectly salted.
Tortillas. Hey, the tortillas had that packaged taste. Our conclusion was that they served packaged tortillas were just like skillet-heated before being brought out.
First of all, the place was incredibly loud. Everybody, and I mean everybody in the place was talking at a highly elevated volume. The walls are of barren concrete cinder blocks and the floor is just a textured concrete. There are no table cloths. There are no curtains. There are no hanging southwestern rugs. There is nothing whatsoever to soak up any noise. At one point one of the kitchen staff dropped a plate and it was the absolute loudest crash I remember hearing at a restaurant. I had extreme difficulty hearing the party I was with. I would say about half the space was full of patrons so I couldn't imagine how loud it would be full. Being a father of three, I do not recommend this place if you have a sleeping baby due to the noise.
I ordered a pork dish that advertised pork chunks marinated in their special Mexican sauce, served with rice and beans. I was left wondering, how long was the pork marinated for? The 20-something minutes we waited for our meal? It was about the most unimpressive pork I'd ever tasted and the chunks tasted like they were pan fried for way too long, charred a bit, then thrown into a red spicy stew for a few minutes. The rice and beans were alright, but come on I was expecting some good pig with the price tag and as long as I waited for it! Majorly overcooked. It was nothing at all worthy of the price.
My wife ordered a generic Tex-Mex dish with a spinach enchilada, tamale, and some other stuff. She thought it was okay, not bad but not great, but certainly not worth the price.
Now, our friend ordered some dish with marinated stewed vegetables with chicken and rice and topped with some grilled marinated shrimp. It also came with a crisp lettuce salad topped with a little shredded cheese and avocado slices. He ate every bit of that plate and stated it was extremely good. He was borderline as to whether he'd pay that much money for the plate again, but he did like it.
They made a customized plate for my 5-year old son which consisted of a side plate of rice with a few strips of fajita chicken cut up in bite-sized pieces on top. My 2-year old daughter had a teeny tiny plate of kids nachos -- tortilla chips laid out flat with a bunch of melted cheese on top. Neither of them ate much.
I was sooo disappointed in our visit.