Cafe Rio is alright but not good enough to spend

[PlainsUte]

I asked for one of Rick Bayless’ Mexican cookbooks for xmas last year, and I’ve been making stuff all year. It’s been great.

RIck Bayless >> Skip Bayless

[Utahute72]

I still haven’t found Mexican food in Utah as good as the TexMex in Texas.

Red Iguana was a favorite stop for guys that used to come in from out of town. Those from New Mexico and San Antonio said they liked it better than what they could get at home.

[Utahute72]

I spent three years in Texas and was never that impressed. A lot of the stuff is street tacos and that’s not my cup of tea.

[midnightversion]

Cafe Rio is excellent authentic Mexican cuisine.

[LAUte]

Cafe Rio is excellent authentic Mexican cuisine.

With lots of authentic Mexican brown sugar in all pork dishes.

[FlyfishingUte]

because it is close to my house, has a Drive through , and I didn’t feel like going 12 blocks out of my way to get Tres Hombres or Ref Iguana I won’t go to the Panda Express in sugar house anymore
Crown burger isn’t too far out of my way but for what they charge now I’d just as soon go Lucky 13 or Barbary Coast
Last night I just wanted a decent quick meal that wasn’t Wendy’s Carl’s Jr. Arby’s etc

[TheThrill]

20 minutes sitting in the drive through line

Cafe Rio is not worth waiting 3 minutes for.
Enjoy the diarrhea

[salUTE]

Seriously? You can order diarrhea in the drive through? And it will be ready in under three minutes?

[TheJuggernaut]

Not to sound sexist but it seems like Cafe Rio is more of a lady’s idea of Mexican food. I usually see a lot more groups of women than groups of men there. My wife knows better than to suggest it.

Cafe Rio is the PF Chang’s of mexican food.

[FlyfishingUte]

have never had that happen. Co worker did. But yeah I’m putting good food over fast and easy going forward

[UteBrave]

It’s good enough for Ricky Bobby so it’s good enough for me.

[UTE_R_US]

I always make sure to head to Del Taco for my authentic mexican food fix. Best chili cheese fries in the valley! Man, I’m starving after reading this thread.

[LAUte]

Next week I expect an in-depth review of Applebees.

Next week I expect an in-depth review of Applebees.

Chuck-a-Rama first.

[LAUte]

Bunch of food snobs. You all probably don’t even like Hires.

[Guba]

Hires used to be good but the quality seems to have declined in recent years.

[UteKing]

Next week I expect an in-depth review of Applebees.

You joke, but Applebee’s is one of few sit-down options in our little town. It make me pine for some authentic Italian food, like Olive Garden.

[LAUte]

Hires used to be good but the quality seems to have declined in recent years.

I consider this a sacrilegious statement. Probably un-American too, and perhaps blasphemous.

[Badbadute]

I know it’s popular, I just don’t get it. Of course, one of my definite stops when I’m in Salt Lake is La Frontera, so I don’t have a lot of room to talk. I just like cheese.

La Frontera has the Best Chile Verde in SLC now that Don Antonios went out of business, as for everything else there it is good enough and covered with 4 lbs of cheese so it’ll do when im in SLC and want good Mexican I’ll hit the Red Iguana

[utefansince79]

Been too long since I had a smothered burrito platter at La Frontera.

Great stuff

[Utahute72]

The La Fronteria out our way had to close after numerous health code violations. The problem with that restaurant is a number of versions cropped up, run by family members who really had no clue how to run a restaurant, so quality was spotty.