el Buen Sabor

Don't ask me what the title of this post means. I think we decided on good spices or good flavors, but seeing as I've never studied Spanish I'm just taking someone's word for it.

Sunday night after church Bobby and I sauntered down the sidewalk to this little Mexican restaurant that has recently opened in the same building where our church meets. Dumbfounded would be a great description for our emotions (and maybe our faces?) when we walked in and discovered the entire menu was in Spanish. I knew the word for chicken, pork and taco (thanks to working at Taco Bell during college and having non-English speakers coming in for food), but that's about it. After a few minutes of discussing what we were seeing and neither one of us really having a clue, the lady holds up a folded piece of paper and says "We do have an English menu."  Instant relief!

I'm guessing this is true, authentic Mexican food. It was very different from what you normally get in a Mexican restaurant, was freshly made, but was good. Here's a sample of the menu:

Tacos, $2.00 (yeah, you read that correctly. But don't expect the hard corn shell like you buy in the stores or at other restaurants. These are home-made, soft tacos, but they didn't exactly taste like flour shells, either).
Options for fillers: grilled steak, chicken (which I had), marinated pork, tongue (Bobby's choice), barbecue, spicy Mexican sausage, pork brain, pork skins with Nopales (?), tripe (which is 25cents more).  There's not lettuce or cheese with the meat, but there is a side dish of avocado sauce, which was quite good, that you could add to the meat.

They also have Pupusas, with various fillings (anybody know what that is?), tortas, plates, burritos, picadas, gorditas, sopes, Guesadillas, and an interesting bottom listing of philly steak sandwich, fried tacos, tamalas, and Huevos (eggs cooked to order...so this must be eggs?). As I type this out from the menu, I'm finding this little 8 or 6 pt font that tells which items have lettuces with them. Guess I should have taken a little more time to read the menu!

We might try it again just so we can try the other items. This place is much pricier than we normally pay for Mexican food, but it's run by a family and made me feel as if I were off on an adventure. It was nice to branch outside of our normal routine. I jokingly tell people when it's just the two of you, everything you do is a date, but our venture into the unknown was fun and would definitely be classified as a "cool date".