Should Have Stayed Away

Did you ever have a restaurant around you that you have heard of, it's been there for years and years, in fact it is one of the closest restaurants to you, but you have never been there? There is one like that about 2 miles from our house. It is a Mexican restaurant named Pueblo Nuevo, owned by Mexicans, the food is authentic we presume, and until tonight we never had tried their food.

There are several very good Mexican restaurants around here, several of which we have visited for many years. Most of these have been well received by the local reviewers over the years, as has the one near us.
When we recently went to our state capital for the hearing about Keepers former therapist we were directed to a Mexican restaurant, El Jimador, in town and we did try it and found the food to be extremely good and tasty and inexpensive. It was a wonderful meal in the middle of a rather tense 24 hours.

On the way to visit Pastor Brown when he was in the hospital we tried another Mexican restaurant Ruiz-Castillo, one owned and operated by one of the children of a very good restaurant owner also near us, Ruiz's, and this too was very good though a bit overpriced. Ruiz's is better food at a better price and has been here for over 25 years.

Hacienda is the other excellent Mexican restaurant around here, even though it had two locations, one owned by the wife the other by the husband after a divorce. The wifes location was the original location and after the family split the food here continued to be excellent and very inexpensive. Many a family dinner was eaten there over the years. One of Keepers brothers introduced us to it. The 2nd location, owned by the husband was much larger, styled like Casa Gallardo restaurants but retaining the Hacienda recipes so the food was excellent and still less expensive than the chains and much better tasting.

Getting back to tonights meal, I recently read a review of various types of restaurants in our area, a list of five for each classification, for Italian, Mexican, Greek, Seafood, Steakhouses, etc and Pueblo Nuevo was listed as one of the 5 best in our fair city. So tonight we decided to try it finally.
We should have stayed away. From the salsa which wasn't salsa for the chips, this was a sauce not a salsa, to the sauce over the enchiladas the food was not nearly like what we had at the other Mexican restaurants and had always loved. So after all of these years, we finally tried it, and wish we hadn't.

If we had never eaten at these other excellent restaurants we may have liked this one, not having them to compare to, but we had and it just didn't measure up to our expectations. Sometimes when you try something that has been put off for a long time, it is best to leave it alone.

Til next time,

john michael