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| May 12, 2026 |
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Ignoring
Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty Harry" that
opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to
yourself.
 My
friend and I arrived about noon on Tuesday May 5th, 2026.
I've been celebrating this date for years, and the Mexican
restaurants are normally very busy on this day. Not in
Cambridge, Minnesota, lots of floor space, but less than 10
people there, including my friend and I, and very little "Mexican
atmosphere", if any, I don't remember any background
music. The place seemed like a tomb.
The waiter
came over with the menus, and I ordered a Marietta. Sorry,
the machine that makes them takes two hours and has another
hour to go. "You do know this is Cinco de Mayo, right?"
No response, and he left.
After a while he came
back and we ordered, I asked for the chicken taco platter.
When the food arrived, they should have called it an onion
taco, more onions than chicken. I tried pick them out, but
it was just not good, and I left the second taco untouched,
the rice and beans were just so-so, and after a couple of
attempts I abandoned them, stacking the plates, and my
friend did the same.
The waiter returned with the
bill, no conversation, and I remember thinking "for
what this meal cost we could have had a decent meal
somewhere, and a marguetta".
We left the
young man a tip, I could tell he wouldn't be making much
money today. I posted my review on Yelp, my friend, who had
gone with me that day, commented, ''you know, all of those
other customer reviews were glowing, they couldn't say
enough good things about this restaurant, it makes me think
they were either posted by friends of the owners, or just
made up." Could be.
Over the years, I've
eaten at some wonderful Mexican restaurants, the one in
downtown St. Cloud, Minnesota comes to mind, and the one in
Immokalee, Florida that I frequent often in the winter,
always busy, always the best food and service.
I
was in the banking business for many years, and financed a
lot of restaurant operations. Part of my routine to keep my
eyes on what they were doing was to eat at them frequently.
If this particular restaurant was on my list, I'd have some
concerns as to their future.
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