El Sombrero

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  Love this place. Staff is great, food is good, and if you don't get the cheese dip you are letting yourself down.

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  Posted on 12.22.12 Ashley R.

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  El Sombrero is Jeff's attempt to capture how Mexican is done. They start you off with chips and salsa. They are your dollar-a-bag standard tasting combination. Again, I am setting your expectation that the taste is a standard if you were in Mexico. I had a taste of their Carnitas, and it was awesome! It wasn't your Mex-American Carnitas that you see in Food Network; think of it as Carnitas prepared by Señora Margarita.
  
  Do not expect to taste Qdoba or Chipotle when you visit El Sombrero. Expect what their establishment is saying, "authentic" Mexican taste.

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  Posted on 08.11.12 John T.

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  I was absolutely starving when I sat down at El Sombraro with my boyfriend on Friday night.  This was the, "I'll eat aboslutely anything because I haven't eaten in 6 hours" kind of hunger, or so I thought.  Then the waiter sat chips and salsa in front of me that were inedible.  To be fair I tried to eat the salsa but by all taste and appearances it looked as though they had taken bad jarred mild salsa and added chopped onoins, cilantro, and garlic to it.   I ordered chicken tacos with rice and beans on the side and he ordered a chicken quesadilla also with rice and beans.  When the dishes arrived we both stared at his quesadilla becasue they had made a quesadilla entree by takin a single soft taco shell, filling it with cheese and chicken, folding it in half, and grilling it.  I guess it was technically a quesadilla but it certainly wasn't an entree.  I received three flour tortillas filled with diced chicken and two small cups of salsa (pico de galla and a spicy salsa) on the side.  There was no lettuce, sour cream, etc.  I poured some of the pico de galla on the taco and attempted to eat it and it was so dry it was inedible.  My boyfriend took a few bites of the taco and agreed that it was horribly dry.  The chicken was just overcooked.  After multiple attempts to hail a waiter I was finally successfully able to have some sour cream brought to the table.  I drenched a taco in sour cream and ate it and then was done with that dish.  I attempted the oddly colored refried beans and the rice but both were bland and texturallly displeasing.  Eventually we gave up on the meal altogether and headed next door to satisfy my hunger with a quart of ice cream from Meijer.

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  Posted on 01.15.12 Shana K.

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