A look back: El Rodeo
Have you ever been to a cheap Mexican restaurant? Then you've been to El Rodeo. I swear, they must have a Mexican restaurant factory somewhere in America that just ships them out with some prepackaged Mexican sounding name. Of the three Mexican places around Tech, they all have the same menu and essentially the same food. For Mexican places, there are two things that set them apart from one another. The quality of their free tortilla chips and the quality of their margaritas.
Luckily for El Rodeo, they win on both these counts. Their chips and salsa are good, to the point where we end up finishing a few baskets off before the food gets there, forcing us to gorge oursleves to finish the food we've ordered. The endless debate between salted and unsalted always continues, but we are united behind the chips themselves.
The El Rodeo margaritas are also quite good, as you can see from the pictures. One word of warning, get your margarita jumbo, salted and unfrozen. Apparently they assume you want a frozen margarita, and attempting to drink a jumbo frozen margarita is like trying to drink a big gulp full of very cold slurpee in ten minutes. The pictures below show how painful the exercise becomes. I think my core temperature dropped about 10 degrees over the course of the drink.
I think the reason that El Rodeo's margaritas are so good is that at one point they had the reputation of being the place where they didn't check IDs. It has changed its ways as of recently, I'm guessing due to prosecution, but the good margaritas haven't changed.
On the plus side, I think the reputation of the Tour is preceeding us. Much like at The Cellar where we recieved free beer, El Rodeo provided my jumbo margarita free of charge. We should do this more often. I'm trying to encourage Russ to pretend he's from the Collegiate Times with his giant camera so we can get entire meals free. We'll see how that goes.
The tour's meal recommendations
Justin
A Number One (Two enchiladas, rice and a taco)
A Number Five (Two enchiladas, rice and beans)
Jumbo Margarita (Limey and delicious - NOT FROZEN)
Chips and Salsa (Too much)
Gavin
Uno Numero Uno - Ditto
Fried Ice Cream - I know it's just vanilla ice cream with rice crispies on top. But let me live the lie, damnit!
Russ
3 Soft Tacos - Simple, safe (kinda, dont ask whats in the meat).
Chips and Salsa - I could eat that all night.
Luckily for El Rodeo, they win on both these counts. Their chips and salsa are good, to the point where we end up finishing a few baskets off before the food gets there, forcing us to gorge oursleves to finish the food we've ordered. The endless debate between salted and unsalted always continues, but we are united behind the chips themselves.
The El Rodeo margaritas are also quite good, as you can see from the pictures. One word of warning, get your margarita jumbo, salted and unfrozen. Apparently they assume you want a frozen margarita, and attempting to drink a jumbo frozen margarita is like trying to drink a big gulp full of very cold slurpee in ten minutes. The pictures below show how painful the exercise becomes. I think my core temperature dropped about 10 degrees over the course of the drink.
I think the reason that El Rodeo's margaritas are so good is that at one point they had the reputation of being the place where they didn't check IDs. It has changed its ways as of recently, I'm guessing due to prosecution, but the good margaritas haven't changed.
On the plus side, I think the reputation of the Tour is preceeding us. Much like at The Cellar where we recieved free beer, El Rodeo provided my jumbo margarita free of charge. We should do this more often. I'm trying to encourage Russ to pretend he's from the Collegiate Times with his giant camera so we can get entire meals free. We'll see how that goes.
The tour's meal recommendations
Justin
A Number One (Two enchiladas, rice and a taco)
A Number Five (Two enchiladas, rice and beans)
Jumbo Margarita (Limey and delicious - NOT FROZEN)
Chips and Salsa (Too much)
Gavin
Uno Numero Uno - Ditto
Fried Ice Cream - I know it's just vanilla ice cream with rice crispies on top. But let me live the lie, damnit!
Russ
3 Soft Tacos - Simple, safe (kinda, dont ask whats in the meat).
Chips and Salsa - I could eat that all night.
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