El Rodeo Mexican Restaurant
This may be one of my ‘least wordy’ commentaries since this particular place wasn’t a conscious choice, but more of a ‘fallback’ since time was short and no forethought or pre-planning was able to go into it. Overall, it was an “ok” Mexican restaurant, even though it is a chain and (without remembering) we had been to one at another location some years back. Though there were quite a few patrons in there, the service was good and our server was “cordial enough”. The chicken fajitas were good (but not AS good as our usual place) and the dish I ordered (Pollo Loco) was just okay. I thought it was a little overpriced for what it was. $11.99 for a very small, thin chicken breast that was a little chewy, topped with very finely ground chorizo and some cheese. It was accompanied by rice, beans and a guacamole salad. It was good, but nothing I’d ever order again. Our one and only real complaint was that the regular salsa that they bring with the tortilla chips when they seat you was SO incredibly spicy that even I couldn’t eat it. We’ve been to many places like this and have always enjoyed the salsa and while this may have been fine for some folks, it was over the top for us. Other than that, everything else was okay!