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It wasn’t my choice, really. I had to eat at Ernesto’s today. I had fallen into a gaggle of Ernesto’s gift certificates and needed to spend them. What was I supposed to do? Let them go to waste? Give them to friends? What kind of punkass friend gives his buddy a gift certificate to a shitty restaurant?
Not me. I had to choke it down myself, and choke it down I did.
Ok, to be fair, Ernesto’s food is not horrible. It won’t give you a ride on the “vomit comet” or the “anal egress express” but it will leave you with a serious sense of “edible amnesia.” Edible amnesia is the condition that occurs when the food that you eat is so bland and uninteresting that you can’t even remember eating it. And that’s where Ernesto’s fits it. It’s Mexican food for people from Slovakia. It has zero flavor, no passion, and a serious lack of oomph, in fact no oomph whatsoever. It’s like someone back in the kitchen is treating corn starch as a spice. The sauces are weak and flavorless, the meats bland, and the soups waifish. Yeah I said waifish.
So, just in case you were wondering, Ernesto’s is still not anyplace you’d want to go if eating was your goal. Margaritas aren’t bad though.
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Couldn’t agree more! Well written.
November 30th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
“It’s like someone back in the kitchen is treating corn starch as a spice.”
Love it!
November 30th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Yup.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
100% agree! terrible mexican food. might as well throw zocalo’s in there as well. might as well just eat cardboard.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Agreed. I just don’t understand why I see crowds and people fighting for parking near it. The same people who vote for Chili’s as a top restaurant or think Starbucks is quality coffee.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:00 am
So glad someone finally said it. I’ve been dragged here a bazillion times and disliked it every one.
Cheers to you.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I’m not saying the place is great or anything, but the los cabos soup is good.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I think you have Ernesto’s confused with Zocalo’s.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
Sounds like if one HAS to eat there, a maragrita or two before the meal is a must!
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I thought I was the only one who hated this place! My friends always gave blank stares when I described the food as “too bland.”
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I would appreciate it if you were to mention places that are better, because although it might not be great, there are a great many places that are worse.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Vallejos on 4th. La fiesta an Alhambra. Tres hermanas on k. Jalisco something on broadway. The taco trucks all over town. And really Richard, name one place other than the chains that is worse.
December 4th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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