Let's Go Get Chicken Chile Verde Enchilada
	Reviewed By gadaboutdiner	Sep 03, 2008

This restaurant is located in a "tourist destination." For both tourists and locals (like us) this means: BE VERY CAREFUL!

Your experience on a weekend or holiday week might be seriously different from your "otherwise" experience. Cinco de Mayo? Totally fuggedaboutit! The entire world seems to need to be in Old Town for that celebration.

Except for the dish we regularly, explicitly return for, this restaurant's food MIGHT be rated 3 stars. The bar area is almost always noisy and crowded, especially on game days when all the TV's are working just fine, thank you, and the fans are cheering-on their teams.

The wait staff is what one would expect in such a busy-festive-crazy atmosphere. The well-managed place (I say that because it has survived the San Diego tourist explosion) serves run-of-the-mill American-style Mexican food in plentiful quantities.

We regularly return, though, for the Chicken Chile Verde Enchilada with sour cream. Served with beans, unless you are there to eat light.

It's a simple, subtly-tasteful, satisfying meal. The faux-Mexican-food flavors meld so well that the last bite, as scrumptious as the first, still has my total attention.

If we are just passing through to satisfy a between-meal hunger attack, we order the guacamole to eat with the chips. AND a light Corona with lime.

The dip is too bland for my taste, though, so I always add half a ramekin of house salsa. Stir and taste. Then, what the heck, I add the other half of the salsa ramekin. A pinch or three of salt is last. Stir and attack! Yum!