Today's attendees were Jennie, Matt, Sol, Bret, Allen, Reg and Andrew. Torero's is basically like every other Mexican restaurant around. Each has their own something special, but essentially, they're all the same. Something that was noticed is that the owners of Mexican restaurants do an excellent job of taking over establishments that have gone belly up. Witness Day 3 - Los Bennigans.
The remnants of Newtons Southwest Grill (the unfortunate restaurant that is no longer) still exist. Whether it's the paintings on the wall, the metal N on the gate leading to the courtyard that appears to never be used or the ever so popular Texas shaped lavatory sinks, Torero's takes Newtons and ups the ante.
Interesting side note. When I searched for something to link "Texas shaped lavatory sinks" to, I found this page which inexplicably does NOT have sinks listed. However, this page about a group's trip includes an admirable sink pic, however, it was actually found in Texas, which just isn't as impressive. Another Texas shaped item that would be a great thing to have around the house is this Texas shaped waffle iron.
Back to Torero's... We were greeted by the lovely Claudia, who showed us to our table in the front room just through the bar. The tortilla chips were warm and delicately seasoned. Jennie wanted more salt, but no shaker on the table (perhaps we were searching for our lost shaker of salt?). We pounded our baskets and they brought more. Salsa was particularly good, as is typical for Torero's. Jennie and Andrew both ordered the Mexican Spinach Pizza, which although still good, was a magnitude smaller than it had been the last time we visited Claudia, probably over a year ago.
Overall, Torero's is always a good, solid meal. I encourage you to take the virtual tour, (although we didn't eat in that room).
Note to Brandon: no sighting of Slade Jackson or his deadly margaritas.
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I sat beside Bret at this meal.
Salsa here really is head and shoulders above any other hot plate Mexican within our range. But the chimi has cheddar not queso, so while it is very good and fresh it's not quite as digustingly satisfying.
i searched for sinks from Texas, but it's pulling sinks nationwide.
please verify.
Who wrote this? Mike? Andrew? Are you allowed to edit someone's post and call them an idiot?
Reg made the original post and called it El Do. You can see that by the URL blogger gave it: http://40lunches.blogspot.com/2008/07/day-15-el-do.html. It was just a placeholder.
Bret understandably was appalled and made the change to its current title.
I went in last night and added the meat to the post.
TheReg is an idiot for saying this was El Do
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