I’ve been trying to get to El Burro for dinner since last year. A friend went there for dinner and everything
I read about it made me want to go even more.
The few times we’ve tried to go it was either fully booked, or people
were away. My core group consists of
friends that I’ve known for years and this is the group that wanted to go for
dinner, so we weren’t going to go until everyone was able.
It worked out well that we went on this Saturday night as we were all
available and one of my oldest friends was in town the same weekend. So after getting an early booking for 8
people at 6pm (the early hour to cater for a friend that was babysitting that
night), changing the booking to 6 people as people cancelled, running around
like a mad thing from Constantia Glen to get back in time for our Uber, trying
to figure out how the seat folds down and rushing through to Green Point, we
made it just in time.
It was still fairly quiet so I managed to get some good shots of the
deco.
We started off the evening with
the house brand margaritas, I don’t know if it’s because my glass was from
halfway down the jug but flip the drinks were strong. Most of us had complaints from that first
jug, either too strong or too weak.
So
for the second round we decided on the basil margaritas, the waitress came back
to say something about they weren’t making them because they were too expensive. We had no clue what that meant, so the citrus
one was our next choice. This isn’t a
frozen margarita, it’s filled with ice, but it was amazing. We all enjoyed this jug so much more than the
previous one.
Our food was amazing, we all really enjoyed what we ordered. I had the pork carnitas, which was three mini
tortillas filled with pulled pork and three different salsas – nectarine salsa,
avo salsa and salsa verde. The nectarine
and avo salsas were amazing but the salsa verde was quite hot as it had
chillies in it.
What’s really great about this venue is that it’s so chilled but
authentic. So it’s not like a lot of
Mexican restaurants where they’ve westernised everything, from the costumes to
the food it was all authentic. A table showed
up about an hour after us and they were all dressed up for “day of the dead”,
it turned out it was someone’s birthday and that was the theme. Some people really went all out. It makes you think why don’t we do that more often?
Dress up for special occasions or do something different than the norm?
El Burro was amazing, the food, deco, service everything was top
notch. It’s definitely somewhere I would
go again and again.
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