Moe's Southwest Grill

Moe's is a good restaurant for people who don't like food. It's a bad sign when the most interesting thing about a restaurant is the NAMES of the dishes. Everything tastes very bland and the salsas have an overpowering flavor of chili powder. Skip this place.

This place kind of confused me.  

The menu is a bit spastic in that all of the items have pop-culture names that you then have to read the descriptions (a burrito=Joey Bag of Donuts.  Got it?) which takes a lot more time than it should, though it is somewhat reasonably organized.  

The restaurant itself is kind of a mix of Qdoba (assembly line style item creation) and Rubio's (free chips and salsa bar).  The food is definitely more tex-mex than most other Mexican-style fast food restaurants in the area with an emphasis on bolder flavors.  

The staff was friendly, the decor was modest but contemporary and the food was decent.  It just didn't amaze me.

This fast casual tex-mex restaurant is average to below-average.  IMO, of course.

Good:  Nice staff.  And I love the fact that many of the menu items have pop-culture names.  I found the "Art Vandalay" quite funny.  The best thing going here his the free tortilla chips that come with each entree and the salsa bar... pretty good deal.

Bad:  Well, it's not horrible... it's just mediocre.  The prices are higher than, oh say, Taco Bell and that's okay because I sincerely feel the food is better.  And when you throw in the free chips & salsa... it's pretty good.  So why do I only rate two stars?  One word.... Qdoba.  At Qdoba, for abou the same price, you lose the free chips & salsa.  However, having experienced both restaurants many times, I feel that Qdoba has the fresher ingredients.  The food at Moe's just doesn't seem seasoned as well and does not taste as good.  Not horrible... just not as good.

Qdoba is a comparable restaurant and, in it's market, I think it is the best.  So grading on that curve, I can only rate Moe's with two stars.