Nino’s Mexican Restaurant Inc
10659 Grand Ave., Ste. 14, Sun City, in the Land of AZ (might as well be in Kansas, Dotty)
Ratings On a scale of 0 to 10 Pepcids:
Ambiance: 1 1/2 Ppcds. - Authenticity of Food: 1/2 Ppcd. - Tasty: negative (-) 11* Ppcds.
Overall Rating: a well-deserved negative (-) 11* Ppcds.
* Vapidity Bonus of one extra Ppcd.
Sleazy Rider’s Comments: Only recommended to the blandest of demented good elders who dine about four, the very hottest part of the day. Those chichi trenchermen and gourmands with taste-buds who dine in the cool (apply both meanings) later part of the evening: KEEP A VAST DISTANCE!
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The Adventure
We arrived at Nino’s, fortunately located in the Albertsons’ Shopping Center (Nino takes no debit or credit cards, usually a hopeful sign; so Pam had to buy a couple of cans of chilis from Albertsons, and get cash back to pay for our meal. NEVER pay ATM fees when the stores all give cash back with a purchase, without ATM fee rip-offs!), at about about 5:00 PM, at the very tail end of Nino’s evening rush of white-haired Anglos, their entire customer base.
As I walked through the door I said to myself, “Location, location, location”. Indeed the canned chilies were the closest thing to Mexican that we saw all evening (evening as in old-fogey time). The dinner rush began at 4:00 PM. Nino’s is located in the very heart of elder-fogey-land. Only gardeners and maids here are Hispanic. Even the lovely, dark-haired waitress, dressed in a very colorful Mexican-styled dress, was an Anglo, born and bred.
Indeed, I believe that there would have been total panic among the oldsters if one truly dark-skinned person would have entered the premises…. I was taught not to comment if I could not say anything good, however, sincere, #%4*@#& (yup, it is the sanitized “F” word!) bigots are dim products of their historic, flat-earther environment…
My earlier research should also have warned me that Nino’s was on a bland par with Taco Bell, sans the late-night closing. Here are a couple of online ratings that I found.
User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars by amanda wilkins 01/13/2008 This is one of the best Mexican Restaurants I have ever eaten at. Very homey and comfortable!! Get the number one!! HUH?
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Mar 19, 2007 by vicki from sun city
Overall Rating: 4 Overall user rating
Cleanliness:[2] • Staff:[6] • Location:[5]
* The employees were nice.
* The food was quite disappointing.
“I was very disappointed with their food. It was all very bland. I have had much better Mexican food elsewhere. Even their salsa was lacking. Nice people, but I would not go back.” BINGO!
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Vickie nailed it. The “salsa” was actually horrid. Amanda must have been a dried, silver-haired Anglo with absolutely NO taste-buds at all. None. Nada. Zilch. Heroically insipid! Señor Nino serves a senescent niche market. Location, location, location.
Summary
Next time I want Mexican food I will travel to the barrio, where real Mexican people eat real Mexican food. I won’t be asking to see green cards… As with Chinese restaurants, look for the ethnicity in the patrons, usually reflected in the location of the restaurant, duh.
Sinceramente,
Jinete de Mala Calidad y Pero de Vaca
PS. Vaya con Dios
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