I admire the entrepreneurial spirit as much as the next woman, but I just have to wonder (to quote late-night talk hostess Joyce Riley) – “What were they thinking?”
I am musing about the sign currently placed at the front of the former Bella Napoli, the former Il Trulli, the former Limoncello, the former Rocco’s: it announces that a “Mex/Italian Restaurant” is coming soon.
Two great cuisines. But will they really be enhanced by an arranged marriage? Nachos Alfredo? Menudo Bolognese? Horchata panna cotta?
Hmm, come to think of it, a sweet rice panna cotta might not be bad…….
Shouldn’t we shoot for one good, simply Mexican restaurant (any region) in this town first? Taquerias, great though they may be, don’t count.
Oh dearie me! Will there be any Italians in the kitchen? Will you have to order in Spanish or Italian? Or is this just an excuse for yet another taqueria in a town already overpopulated with tacos.
@rbd: no we don’t need to shoot for what you suggest. We need to shoot for far fewer Mexican joints, and far more examples of European culinary excellence, at affordable prices. What! A joint offering Nicoise “pan bagna”? How about a Spanish “joint” offering walk-away portions of Paella, or bocadillo? What? Nobody has ever heard of those?
The dissonance of fried tortilla chips and fat little burros has overwhelmed everything, to the dis-benefit of everything.
Too many burrito eaters disrupts the native culinary ecosphere! How does it manage to do this? Think: cash economy + zero or nearly zero payment of taxes + under-the-table cooks + servers = LOW prices that outcompete the law-abiding competition.
I’m going to boycott the place before it even opens. Christina is WAY TOO POLITE. It’s not just a bad idea culinarily, it’s a bad idea culturally.
Christina, when are you going to tweak your blog so readers can SEE that there are comments? Who will even look for comments if they don’t know there are any there?
Thanks for the heat folks. Here’s the deal. I (and my webmaster) expect the readers to be smart enough to click on the header. That’s how the comments are revealed.
Until I monetize this site enough to afford more programming time, I am stuck with this format. Adapt or be dinosaur!
Christina
Dear Whore’s Tacos: Fat little burros are a Californian abomination (even more so when eaten with knife and fork). Your comments, while I agree whole-stomachly on the European front, only underscore the need for good, regional Mexican restaurants. Generic Mexican is a US invention; you’d be amazed.
Just another attempt to what must be a bad location or layout become a profit making restaurant. On the other hand, a well trained, professional successful Italian chef could probably do wonders to some of the bad attempts around town of creating Mexican food north of the border.
I have to concur with Christina, as I normally do, I do assume that the readers will click on the headline of a story if they want to comment. But I went ahead and added a “comments” link to the listing pages. So now the deal is every one must comment even more.