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Restaurant Review Friday – Disappointing Mexican Food

16th April, 2010 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

We try to give out recommendations each Friday for either restaurants that are in some way environmentally friendly, or that may have good vegetarian options – either way though, we prefer to only write about restaurants we enjoyed eating at.  But I didn’t end up going out to eat this week, so I have a couple of reviews saved up on restaurants that had somewhat disappointing food.

(1) Sago’s

I went to Sago’s  for dinner a few months ago with friends.  Located in the Triangle, it has a nice atmosphere and the service was pretty good for a Friday night.  I ordered the grilled squash, zucchini, and goat cheese tacos.   Below is a not so good quality picture of my meal using my cell phone.  I was a little disappointed, mainly because there were only about 3 pieces of grilled vegetables in each taco.  Most of the volume was just shredded lettuce.  For $7.99 though, it was about what I expected – mostly just paying for the atmosphere and the 3 baskets of chips I had to eat because I was still hungry at the end of my meal. They were delicious chips though!

(2) Manuel’s

I went to Manuel’s (north location) a couple of weeks ago and had the mushroom enchiladas verdes.  They were good, but not worth $14.  I remember reading on the menu that Manuel’s does try to be environmentally friendly in some of the ingredient choices they make, and I believe the owners also do a lot for the Austin community, which is very admirable and I would like to like their restaurant.  But a lot of the price reflects the atmosphere and not the food, and if I’m going to pay that much for enchiladas I would  like them to be really good, especially when there are so many choices in Austin.