Campesinos Méxican Restaurant — Restaurant in Jenks

Two word summary. TASTELESS. SOGGY. Tasteless and soggy burritos, enchiladas and taco. Wet, mealy, unseasoned ground beef. Will not go back.

Went for the first time for lunch on Father's Day. From the parking lot I couldn't tell if the place was open. I poked my head inside the front door and saw a table of four just finishing up their meal, so we went on inside. We were seated immediately. Not a surprise since the place was almost empty. First off I went to the men's room to wash my hands. There was no running water and the paper towel dispenser was empty. Not a good start since a sign above the sink cautioned employees to WASH YOUR HANDS. Good luck with that.

Sanitation issues aside, we decided to try some food. As a starter, we ordered the queso blanco with ground beef. The salsa came to the table delivered in a small flask along with a basket of chips. The salsa was mediocre at best, thick but lacking in flavor except for a tomato paste and mild cilantro undertone. The chips were standard restaurant quality chips like ones you might find at Sam's Club.

My wife ordered the lunch special number 6 (chili relleno, enchilada and cheese quesadilla) and I ordered the lunch special number 3 (taco, enchilada and burrito). Both with a red sauce on top. The queso blanco arrived in a bowl. It was decent but not great. On a scale of 1 to 10 it rated around a 6-7. It was hot, gooey and not too greasy, but like the salsa, lacking in flavor. It was the tasteless ground beef that was its downfall.

Our meals arrived fairly quickly. By this time we were the only patrons in the dining area so it wasn't like the kitchen was slammed. The ground beef inside the burrito was the same as the ground beef inside the enchiladas, and the taco, and not surprisingly, probably the same as in the queso blanco. The ground beef was mealy, lacking in flavor, and it had an off-putting wet quality to it , like it had been laying in a tub of hot water in the kitchen in order to keep it warm.

The taco came with a corn tortilla as did the enchiladas. The burrito came with a flour tortilla. All tortillas were water logged, limp and gooey. The bland greenish sauce over top of the burrito, and the equally tasteless red sauce over the enchiladas did nothing to rescue them. They were disgusting.

Truly, I have had more flavorful Mexican dinners from the freezer section at Wal-Mart. While I can't speak for my wife, her comments to me about the chili relleno and cheese quesadilla she was served ranged from horrible, sloppy, and gross. Neither of us finished our meals. We will never go back.

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