La Casa Del Rios — Restaurant in North Platte

JUST SAW THE "DEL RIOS" PART..DUNNO IF PAT CHANGED THE NAME- I ONLY KNOW IT AS LA CASITA- ON EAST 4TH STREET! The late Rachel Perez originally owned this restaurant. I believe pat now owns it (hi pat). My mother,(SANDY TORRES) sister CINDY(LINDENMUTH )and even I (KIP)a time or two found myself washing dishes. This food is what I compare EVERY SINGLE RESTRAINT/MEXICAN FOOD BY! I was a traveling seasonal sous chef for cool works and along with military service I've traveled and lived in over 18 states(several cities in some of those states) as well as three different countries (Mexico, rota spain,Okinawa japan,siganella italy)..so ive been around and had the opportunity to visit MANY mexican/Latin restaurants. Without question the best! I've only found one other restaurant that offered DEEP FRIED FLOUR TACOS here in medford Oregon....(they no longer do). Nor have I ever found another that makes their mole' like rachels..it took me over 30 yrs to reverse engineer it. I'm an early retired sous chef..so I know what I'm talking about. IF YOU EVER GET TO NORTH PLATTE OR PASS THROUGH ON I-80 YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO DETOUR/VISIT THE LA CASITA. BEST ON THE PLANET! THATS A BIG STATEMENT AND I STAND BY...

We try to give local Mom & Pop businesses our money-When they first opened, the food was good, slow but good. Now after being open for a few years, we've decided to take our local business elsewhere. We order no less than $25-30 every time. The last 2 times, our order has been soggy with gravy-EVEN THOUGH WE WERE VERY CLEAR-NO GRAVY. Tonight's slop includes gravy over everything, too salty for words and didn't receive the entire order. The tortillas are white flour-how pedantic, I can get that at the grocery store. However, the blandness of the rice & beans helps cut the salt. Sorry, La Casa Del Rio, I'll take my money and...

So pros, the service was good. The wait staff was friendly and willing to work around the menu. The steak quesadilla was great! It was my favorite part of the meal. The salsa was nice and spicy. The refried beans were also good, and i liked the beef burrito, but all there was was beef. Didnt really seem like any cheese, onions, cilantro or anything else were in it, and so it was sort of bland. It didnt taste like a burrito so much as a beef wrap.

I didnt care for the gravy, and really didnt like that the rice was covered in it.

Other than that, friendly service.

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