text: Aye Caramba nnMy mom knows my love of Mexican foodand especially good Mexican food Sadly I am the only one in my immediate Phoenix family that is a fan Growing up the Grandparents would begrudgingly go to one place called La Pinata see my review from because that was close to both our synagogue yes this was back in the day and my Great Aunt and Uncles house They would only have cheese crisps only those from AZ my Toni through my Dad and Ivy understand and share the love of a good one or a chimichanga My mom likes chips and refried beans and cheese crisps She also likes guacamole but for some reason cannot pronounce it right nnAnyway during my recent week in Phoenix it was not a vacation or resting type of trip It was a little visiting and a lot of business type trip Mom and I ended up here for dinner because she said that people she knows really like this place so we went as it was close to an errand we were running nnThis is an order at the counter they call your number type of place There is a bar to one side the ordering area and the pick up area They have Pepsi products a salsa bar but you have to pay for chips Mom wanted a cheese crisp and I ordered my standard new place order crispy tacos one chicken one shredded beef with refried beans and rice I also ordered a small container of correctly pronounced guacamole The cashier was friendly though not particularly warm nnWe found a table and our number was called shortly thereafter The tacos were in home made formed and fried corn tortilla shells I loved this Sadly that was about all I loved The chicken taco was pretty dried out and they had large shredded Americanized tasting cheddar over the tacos The beef taco was better but the spicy carrots helped and the guacamole was nothing to write home about What really got me though was the weird tinny flavor from the refried beans pretty inedible and as one Bay Area friend of mine would saythe rice was all wrong Not only did it have peas AND carrots it had some small corn kernels Mom ate about half her cheese crisp and the fact that I did not even try it speaks volumes She apologized as we were leaving saying she thought it would be better and she apologized even more adamantly when she told me she had been up a lot during the night because of the cheese crisp YepI knew something was not right with the cheesennNot a place I would recommend or ever come back to especially after an old friend from high school introduced me to Carolinas