Tacos from Estela's
I do not like hard shell tacos. They are an abomination to the taco. Nothing gets me more relied up than going into a Mexican restaurant and being served a hard shell taco. Usually this happens to me when I am incredibly hungry and don’t have time to complain about these sad tacos. Yes, hard tacos are sad.
They lack character. They also mock me. How do they mock me? Well, because they are free standing! Tortillas are supposed to be flat and made out of corn, never out of flour. They’re not supposed to be crunchy but soft and warm! Plus, you take one bite and everything is spilling out of a hard shell taco.
Soft tacos are the bomb people! They bring out the full flavor of whatever meat that you decide to use in your tacos. That’s not to say that there aren’t good hard shell tacos. There are some good ones out there, and usually the hard shell is not too hard and flaky, but sadly the place we last went to was not the exception to the rule.
I posted on Facebook that I was going to go to Estela’s Mexican Restaurant last Friday. My good friend Becky came back to town for a short visit and since I had not seen her in quite a long time I decided that this would be a good place for us to go and have good Mexican food. When Becky lived here we often went to Casa Tina’s for Mexican food. Now while the food isn’t bad, its not really that authentic. Its not TexMex either. Its a new re-imagening of Mexican food in a sense. It can be good and it can be bad if you are a strict traditionalist when it comes to Mexican food 1
It has taken me almost a month to actually write the review for this restaurant for two main reasons: 1. I am a bad procrastinator, and 2. this place pretty much sucked the life out of everything that is good with Mexican food.
From the minute I walked into the place I had a bad premonition of how it was going to turn out. And I was right, wasn’t I? The food was tasteless, and the waiter who waited on us wasn’t that great. He wasn’t rude or anything, just really blah.
The place was tacky. Even their website is tacky. I should have known it was going to be awful by their hokey website.
The best way to describe the food is by how my friend’s Becky and Megan talked about their food. The waiter asked them if they wanted their Chille Rellenos: traditional or regular. Isn’t regular supposed to be traditional? Regular was some TexMex crap that they concocted. Ridiculous.
Megan and Becky "enjoying" their "Chille Rellenos"
I won’t be back at this place anymore. I have learned my lesson.
So has Naomi.
Eating at Estela's for the first and last time.
Notes:
- This sounds like a viewpoint to interpret the Constitution! Are you an Originalist or do you favor an evolving Mexican cuisine? ↩
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