Moe's Southwest Grill — Restaurant in Decatur

SWMBO and Daughter The First went out of town so The Urchin and I had an opportunity to bond. Apparently Moe's is de rigur for such bonding sessions: we gave it a try

The chips we got were wasted on me since I'm an old gummer now. They did make a satisfactorily size greasy spot on the paper bag.

Mixing equal parts of the mild, the hot, and the are-you-out-of-your-vulcan-mind nuclear salsas make a really tasty dip. You have to eat this fast, before the pointy end of your dipping chip vanishes in a grey puff that would make Schrodinger come up with a new theory.

My entree was a pork burrito because if a Tex-Mex place can get pork done but not solidified anything else on the menu is gonna be most pleasing as well. Turns out that Moe must have gotten a pork major in college.

Moe's doesn't really have a menu. It is more like a pricing of food groups. After ordering "a pork burrito" you trundle along an endless succession of toppings: choose what you like, using your own conception of a balanced diet. Lots of flexibility here and also certainty that the order is freshly made as I suspect the number of diners who consider pork, jalapeno, and corn to be something the universe should allow even to exist is not large enough to build a repeatable business model.

I'll save my "point at the menu and grunt" technique for another time and another place. Bonding is too precious to risk using...

We ordered three quesadillas. For some reason the main griddle was not in use, so genius uses the griddle that browns the tostadas. They don’t share that info with us and give us uncooked and cold quesadillas. When I returned and asked if they could cook it longer, they refused and were pretty rude. I said my piece and we left after the kids ate a 1/4 of their meals. Avoid this place like the plague. Not only is the food and service pitiful, but their prices are too high. Paying $47 for cold, uncooked food is enough for me, but coupled with the staff’s poor attitude means we will never return. It’s a shame, I remember when it was a good place to eat. It looks like we’re not the only customers with this experience. Welcome to Moe’s 2023 - where the customers are...

I ordered an item with cárnitas. Server tells cook he's out of cárnitas. Cook says in annoyance "well, he's going to have to wait". So I waited. I get to the register and the manager tells her work crew that they are putting too many chips with the orders. Unprofessional, a manager should never discuss stuff like that in front of the client. And the cherry on top... The table area was a pig pen. 75% of the tables were so dirty that nobody could sit down. Also the trash can was overflowing so people had to use the wax paper to force the trash down. 2 stars because my...