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Restaurante Los Pizotes
4.7
(610)
$
First time in long time that I felt like invisible in a place.
For starters, I must explain that chorreadas and tortillas de queso (cheese tortillas) are two of my favorite costarrican typical foods. Therefor I learned how to make chorreadas, and I'm still trying to get cheese tortillas, the way they are intended to be. So, putting ii in a bold way, even though the huge add that advertise the restaurant, and the cocky slogan is that they make the best cheese tortillas and chorreadas, and supposedly they are famous for them, DON"T GO if you are ONLY planing to try these two thing like I did, commuting a 40min ride to get there, because I was planning to have brunch there. TOTAL disappointment. CONS Totally ignored by the person taking the orders, as soon as I mention him it was a party of one, he totally neglect me, so I had to stand up after 9 min, walk to the kitchen window and order my food. 2.Tortilla: it taste good because they use a nice flavored cheese, but definitely is not prepare the way it should. Instead of having the cheese blend with the corn dough, they put a bunch of little squares of cheese in the dough to make the tortillas, So what you may say, the problem is that it make the tortilla all brittle, so you cannot cut a nice peace lift it and dunk it in the sour cream, it will collapse, just buy trying to lift it up from your plate. Must say (even though I have a sweet tooth), almost the worst chorreada I have tried, WHY! ok, even though it suppose to be a kind of sweet corn tortilla, it suppose to taste like corn and not to be as sweet as a cake or a cookie, something in between, where you can feel the mashed corn with the other ingredients all perfectly well, without feeling an overwhelming sweet taste that not even the sour cream was able to tune down... yep, that sweet it was.
PROS Nice view, although I think the restaurant that they are remodeling has a better view than the grand salon they use for events. Really liked the soursop juice, I purchase two, because I didn't want something else to dislike, if I didn't like the guaba juice, so, "fresco was tasty, even though, it takes that its a mixed between fresh and pulp concentrated fruit. They use paper straws! really eco-friendly. Will add pics later, cromebook not allowing to connect...
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El menú es una combinación de recetas típicas costarricenses, como tortillas de queso, chorreadas, chicharrones, casados y también un poco de steakhouse, sirviendo cortes asados como lomito, churrasco y chuletones de cerdo.
Pero sin duda, hay 2 platillos en ese menú, que, realmente, sobre salen.
Primero la tortilla de queso. Siendo yo de ascendencia guanacasteca, crecí comiendo tortillas de queso, mi panza sabe sobre eso. Y no les miento cuando les digo que he comido muchísimas, de muchos lugares. Ninguna le llega a ésta.
La masa tiene la sazón perfecta, es saladita, siente el sabor del maíz y el queso. EL QUESO. No estoy seguro de esto, pero me parece que ellos mismos lo producen. Y le echan sin miedo. Yo creo que la receta es 50 porciento masa y 50 porciento queso. Todo esto bien cocido sobre la plancha para formar ese doradito, o en términos técnicos, reacción de Maillard.
Y el otro platillo son los chiles rellenos. Son jalapeños en conserva, llenos de igualmente abundante queso, empanizados y fritos a la perfección. Un bocado con un poquito de picor, amargor, cremosidad del queso y crujiente del empanizado. Esos chiles son adictivos. De recordarlos, empiezo a salivar.
Y para cerrar lo que probamos por allá, pedimos una alforja típica. Que tiene fajitas de res y chorizo, acompañados de ensalada verde, frijoles molidos, pico de gallo, maduro frito y tortillas.
La carne estaba bien sazonada y suave. Sin embargo, me parece que es carne tenderizada, es demasiado suave y no tiene la textura de carne. Aunque no creo que esto vaya a molestar a las personas, sin embargo, es algo para señalar.
El chorizo tiene buen sabor, sin estar sobresazonado, bien cocido, aunque un poco seco.
El queso frito con maduro es un clásico. Amo esa combinación, no hay donde perder.
Y los frijoles me gustaron mucho, tienen un toque de dulce que en lo personal me encanta.
En general los platillos al estilo steakhouse me parecen buenos, con carne suave y bien sazonada, e incluso lo sacan en el punto de temperatura que se les solicite. Son platillos ricos, cumplidores, pero nada que los vaya a volver locos.
Los precios de los platillos son variados, pero nosotros pagamos cerca de 32mil colones por los tres platillos que les describí, y adicional 2 tortillas con queso, queso palmito y pan casero para llevar.
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