All rights reserved. Meals begin with a basket of crisp chips and two salsas, one red and one green. The best items tend to be the simplest. Guacamole is chunky with little more than tomatoes and fresh, hot green peppers. Don't worry about the chiles, as the dip isn't very spicy.
Salads are a pleasant sight on a Mexican menu.
Normally honey mustard dressing is drearily bland, but Estrella's has chipotle pepper, which transforms it into a great dressing. It's a soothing, mildly spiced concoction. Dinner entrees don't fare as well. At least the restaurant has the imagination to serve bean cakes instead of slavishly adding beans and rice to every entree. Why it's served with hummus escapes me.