Friday, April 07, 2006

Poco es No-Go

Tonight we had the intention of eating at Poco's Cantina, not having suffered enough punishment from the previous half-dozen bad experiences eating Mexican food. It's tricky here, because everytime we publically gripe and moan (quite often) about the lack Mexican food, somebody suggests a place that they think is halfway decent. So, for our Friday date night, it was going to be Poco's Cantina and the bald Natalie Portman flick up the street at 'The Spot', a trendy section of Randwick.

We sat down and my skin started to crawl. Perky young twenty-something white girls should not comprise the entire wait staff working in any cantina - they're mutually exclusive. As we sat down, the menu looked suspiciously familar to our first bad experience, not sure if they're owned by the same people or it was just the lack of variety. The standard Chimichanga / Burrito / Enchildada options all blended together into the same boring presentation. There was also the sticker shock of seeing $24 next to a menu item titled burrito. After the exchange rate and considering there's no tip / taxes, it works out OK... but still - anything over $7.50 for a burrito is fundamentally wrong. I also wanted to be able to go back to the kitchen and watch them make my burrito, as that's how I'm used to having it prepared.

Needless to say, it all just seemed wrong. I caught Peggy's worried glance and agreed it was time to get out of Dodge before Lil Ms. Perky came for our order. After not so subtly getting up and leaving, we settled on one of the nine Thai restaraunts within 200m of the theatre and chalked it up to experience that we didn't make the same mistake again. I've got a list of restaraunts to visit back in SD and SF when we visit in July, about half are of the burrito persuasion.

posted by ncawthon at 9:03 PM