Comments on: Restaurant Review: Little Mexico on Cary St.

By: woohoo

woohoo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:15:14 +0000

I guess I have bland taste. I am also not a food critic. I used to be the pickiest person ever- I’m still working on branching out. That being said, I like Little Mexico. I’ve never had one of the potato enchiladas, but I guess I should steer clear. I pretty much go for the chips and salsa. Ok, that might be a lie. I go for their strawberry margaritas too. Its a good place to grab a drink with a few friends, and split some appetizers. I’m in college. Maybe when I “grow up” I’ll have more refined taste.

I do agree that the service staff is very bland. Short sentences, mumbles mostly.

I also agree that Baja Bean has the worst mexican food ever. I know people who used to work in the kitchen there. DO NOT EAT THE FOOD.

By: Paul Hammond

Paul Hammond — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:25:03 +0000

I’ve been wathing for Little Mexico to open and stopped by for a chat last week which went as follows:

Me:
Hi there, yada, yada yada. Glad to see you are open. Do you have any happy hour specials?

LM:
No, maybe we have some in a week or two.

Me:
OK, well do you have any daily food specials.

LM:
No, maybe we put some in soon.

Me:
Ok, well thank you. Could I have one of those menus?

All right, it’s not award winning dialog, but I was underwhelmed by their enthusiasm and BTW, I had the potato enchiladas at a regular Mexico restaurant and that’s exactly what they tasted like, unseasoned and bland. On the other hand my wife had the carnitas which was very good. Finding a good Mexican retaurant about as hard as finding a good Chinese restarant. which is not very easy. The sad part is there was a nice little Mexican retaurant in that exact location, Rio Grande, that made some fine food and was covered with hand painted murals. It took just a few hours for the wrecking ball to make that place history.

I can recommend the Mi Casa retaurants at Brook Rd and Azalea and on West Broad a mile or so west of the Boulevard, friendly service, homemade salsas and consistently good food.

Buenos suertes amigos.

By: ambivalentrichmonder

ambivalentrichmonder — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:13:09 +0000

Surprised? Not a bit. The restaurant wasn’t my choice, a friend took me. And when I read some folks discussing the place on-line , I thought I should throw in my two cents…

Besides, restaurant reviews of new places are always popular and help drive up those Hott or Nott numbers on RVABlogs…

But seriously, avoid the potatoes.

By: RVA Foodie

RVA Foodie — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:28:39 +0000

Senor Urban,
Your review starts off like a culinary audit of a corner-cutting start-up. Sure, you caught the underachieving franchise rojo-handed, but are you really surprised? Mexican food for gringos occupies the same station in the restaurant world as the frozen tv dinner isle’s old reliable Michelina’s Budget Gourmet. In other words, welcome to Mexico! That chain of Richmond restaurants is a tainted temptress for me, personally. My father in-law drags my wife and me to one of the Mexico Restaurant crapola’s every couple weeks. He orders lunch special #5 every time (beef enchilada w/ricenbeans) and I order something different every time hoping to avoid bloating and intestinal distress (but, foiled every time). Now, I will agree with you that chips and salsa are the probably the high point of the meal. For Fan-istas, that’s probably all that matters, since las cervesas will undoubtedly be the main course. Anyhow, one could do worse… there’s always Baja Bean. Doh!