Comments on: Best/Worst Mexican Food

By: ExtraMSG

ExtraMSG — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:17:02 +0000

Palenque is Mexican and Salvadorean, I believe.

By: skipjimson

skipjimson — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:36:31 +0000

Thanks for the info about bean trees, Tony. Again, the rock on my girl’s plate was a rock, not a tree limb. I like your optimism, though… I agree it woulda been perfectly acceptable if the old broad fingerin’ my girlfriend’s dinner would have discovered a branch all up in there.

By: James

James — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:18:23 +0000

One of my favorites is El Palenque on 17th St. in Sellwood. The menu is half Mexican, half Ecuadoran.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:38:57 +0000

Where do limes come from? Trees! Sometimes when farmers are picking them they don’t cut off all of the tree limb. It could get into your food especially if your preparing a lot of it. It could of been from the avocado or the beans too.

By: ExtraMSG

ExtraMSG — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:42:08 +0000

Small rock like things from pico de gallo and ceviche? Huh? Remind me never to eat at your place!

I’ve been making such items for mucho anos now and never encountered such a problem….

By: pebbles

pebbles — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:23:32 +0000

Of course it was a small rock. You often have to pick them out of the beans before cooking when buying in bulk.

By: skipjimson

skipjimson — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:32:32 +0000

Even if it was part of a lime (which I’m sure it wasn’t), it was her long, disgusting nails scraping said item up off a full plate of food that made me sick. Man, just remembering those wrinkled finger tips workin’ to isolate the little nugget from the refried beans all up under her nails & stuff… enjoy your fingered meal, yo, I’m goin’ elsewhere.

Limerocks? Really?

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:46:02 +0000

I think the old waitress at the Romos restaurant might have been right. I make Mexican food all the time! Everytime I make Pico De Gallo or Ceviche I always fine small rock like things. I finally realized they were part of the lime.

By: skipjimson

skipjimson — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:23:55 +0000

There’s a fairly new place on SE 26th & Powell, called Nacho Mama’s. I haven’t tried everything on the menu, but the carnitas and the carne asada tacos are great. The chips and salsa are as fresh as I’ve had in PDX. Also, the halibut tacos are insanely tasty.

Romo’s? No thanks… we recently had the worst-ever experience there. The older woman (waitress) that has worked there for quite awhile was as rude as can be, and grossed us out. There was a small pebble in my girlfriend’s food, which almost broke her tooth… needless to say, she was pretty turned off. So, she called the waitress over and discretely explained the situation. The waitress proceeded to claw the object off of my girlfriend’s plate with her long and disgusting fingernails, then started examining it… like, really workin’ her bifocals/overhead-light combo. She finally passed it off as the stem of a lime. She actually argued the point, whole-heartedly, which just made both of us crazy. It was obviously a rock, but this lady just insisted we didn’t know what we were talking about. It sucked enough as it was, without the creepy old broad calling us liars.

Also, the service was way different for the regulars than it was for us. Plus, it’s just way too expensive for what it is.

By: ExtraMSG

ExtraMSG — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:23:32 +0000

Oh man, Lynn, I *hated* Casa Grande. Granted, I didn’t eat the vegetarian, but it’s some of the worst Mexican I’ve had. However, El Presidente also in downtown Vancouver was even worse. I’m a bit of a Mexican food snob, though.