Got a Living Social Deal for Barrio Star a few months ago and was delighted to have a chance to use it for a revisit (with a friend, since CH declined!).
Ordered:
--Barrio Margarita (relatively low-cal, since fresh lime juice and fresh agave): delish, but not very much of it
--Plantains with chipotle cream (lighter, tastier french fries, essentially)
--chopped Mexican Salad: delicious and very large
--barrio bowl, with tofu; sub power rice for coconut rice (includes coconout chili sauce, power greens, black beans): same thing I got last time; super-delicious, worth returning for again
--pineapple mint agua fresca: yum!
Companion (she is nicknameless, first time going out with her) got steak tacos, which she said were very tasty (though just as small as I had predicted).
With Living Social deal, was not super-cheap but was cheaper than it would have been. Will definitely return! It's so convenient too for a post-meal walk across the Cabrillo Bridge and into the Park and back to burn off some of that margarita!
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Barrio Star: Foodgirl, meet Foodgirl (Bankers Hill)
So, when I picked the name for this blog, I had no idea Isabel Cruz of Coffee Cup and the Mission called herself Foodgirl. I'm just a SD girl who likes food. :) Naomi Wise's tearing into Cruz for choosing such a name (http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/aug/04/restaurant-review-food-girls-mexican-soul/) made me feel rather lame....
But, who cares, you ask: whatever your name is, Sdfoodgirl, how did you like the famous Foodgirl's restaurant?
Barrio Star: Yelpers love it or hate it. Wonderful flavors, they say, or totally overpriced.
I have been now: they're both right!!!
a) Super-duper yum. Awesome, complex Southwestern flavors. Tons of veggie options. Great happy hour. Got $5 sangria and $5 decent malbec, awesome $4 salad (super-duper smokey dressing on a simple salad with corn and tortilla strips), delectable $2.50 cucumber salad (awesome spicy vinaigrette). My $15 (non-happy-hour priced) Brazil bowl was outrageously tasty. Amazing marinated tofu, black beans, power rice, coconut chili sauce, super-yummy steamed greens. Delicious coconut flan for dessert. Would happily go back for those awesome flavors.
I love Naomi Wise, but her review (written not long after the restaurant opened) seems a little fussy to me - those cucumbers were so yummy that I could never say they were overpriced!
And yet....
b) Was still hungry afterwards. The person next to me got the infamous 3 tiny tacos for $15 that yelpers talk about. CH was less a fan of his dish ("it's just not my kind of Mexican," he said - probably because it's Southwestern and more complex spice rubs than most Mexican places we go).
Would I go again? Happily. Is it a good value? Not exactly. But for any tofu-eaters amongst my readers, you must go at least once and get the Brazil Bowl or the Barrio Bowl - it's a San Diego veggie standout, the kind of dish that will remind you how wonderful it is to live in a city with such wonderful restaurant variety!
But, who cares, you ask: whatever your name is, Sdfoodgirl, how did you like the famous Foodgirl's restaurant?
Barrio Star: Yelpers love it or hate it. Wonderful flavors, they say, or totally overpriced.
I have been now: they're both right!!!
a) Super-duper yum. Awesome, complex Southwestern flavors. Tons of veggie options. Great happy hour. Got $5 sangria and $5 decent malbec, awesome $4 salad (super-duper smokey dressing on a simple salad with corn and tortilla strips), delectable $2.50 cucumber salad (awesome spicy vinaigrette). My $15 (non-happy-hour priced) Brazil bowl was outrageously tasty. Amazing marinated tofu, black beans, power rice, coconut chili sauce, super-yummy steamed greens. Delicious coconut flan for dessert. Would happily go back for those awesome flavors.
I love Naomi Wise, but her review (written not long after the restaurant opened) seems a little fussy to me - those cucumbers were so yummy that I could never say they were overpriced!
And yet....
b) Was still hungry afterwards. The person next to me got the infamous 3 tiny tacos for $15 that yelpers talk about. CH was less a fan of his dish ("it's just not my kind of Mexican," he said - probably because it's Southwestern and more complex spice rubs than most Mexican places we go).
Would I go again? Happily. Is it a good value? Not exactly. But for any tofu-eaters amongst my readers, you must go at least once and get the Brazil Bowl or the Barrio Bowl - it's a San Diego veggie standout, the kind of dish that will remind you how wonderful it is to live in a city with such wonderful restaurant variety!
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