David T.

This place opened in this incarnation a month ago (i..e., sometime October 2014) at McKinley Town & Country Shopping Center, a rather dreary but interesting strip mall where there's a BMV and Harbor Freight and Noodle Alley and much else. Apparently it was El Charro Feliz in 2013, to judge by Yelp. I think it was a Thai place before that, too. I tried two take-out items and want to review it to put it on the Yelp map. I like that the restaurant has two menus, with one listing their more intensively Mexican foods and another (which I didn't study) that presumably offers more mainstream fare. (The subtitle, as it were, for the restaurant is "Mexican & American Food".) For rating I hesitate between 3-4 stars from the first visit, but I do like to support new operations. I will order some more stuff from them. This first time I ordered chile rellenos and red enchiliadas. Both our items were well made but VERY mild as regards spicing. As I was a new walk-in, and a caucasian, perhaps they wanted to make sure I wouldn't find the food too spicy. At home, I needed to jazz things up with salsa and a bit of salt, at which point the food was fine. The ingredients were solid, very good corn tortillas, etc. The storefront has a sign saying they have "all you can eat" menudo on Sundays, so maybe I'll try that out for a sit-down visit. Not that I need more than a bowl of menudo, but I like any place willing to put it up front. Try to get menudo at Hacienda? Good luck! The Fiesta Tapatia is nearby and so far I like that place's food better. My favorites for more "authentic" fare are the kitchen at Supermercado Rosales south of downtown and then a number of places on Western Ave. Also El Paraiso. But I hope these folks at Mishawaka Grill get some business and success.