I tried these spots on either side of 436 on 434 Friday at lunch. The first is where La Patrona just was in the strip mall on the southwest side with the Lowe's. The second is in a strip mall just past the northeast corner around 436. Up a small hill. Both were pity fucks that disappointed.
Brazilian Bistro - Opened three months ago. Obviously to no acclaim/fan fare. They maybe painted some new murals. Still around twenty booths and a few tables and four tables on a patio in the front. Brown and white. Spartan. I'll state here that Brazilian food is pretty far down the tennis ladder for me. This didn't do anything to alter my feelings on that. I had the Dose Dupla for $23 ($22 on the menu). Two slices of dead flank steak. Well done. Not medium rare. Though it was so tough that maybe that was a good thing. Pale. Tasteless. I didn't finish it or take it to go. One store bought sausage. Dish water bean stew. It was the tastiest thing. Over-boiled yucca. Dry, plain white rice. Even if all these things were prepared as well as could be prepared, it's still mostly composed of B film produce. With no herbs or spices. And at $22, you have to deliver a better cut of beef. Especially with the sub-dollar assortment of sides delivered with it. I almost did a few cheaper dishes because I knew this wasn't going to be worth $23. I just didn't trust them to deliver on shrimp/seafood and I didn't really want dried beef stew or stroke me off. A medium sized, pan-Brazilian menu. I think ALL the Apps were in the high teens. Some dishes for two were near $50. I think they bought the tequila from the former place. Odd category for a Brazilian restaurant. They also blasted banal, nasal-y, Brazilian music the whole time. Just as disappointing/annoying (not really because both are Brazilian) as the food. Three female servers. One other table dining there. I'm getting kind of tired coming to this location. The sad thing is I have an uninspiring AYCE meat+ one (OBT and Sand Lake) in the hopper which I think costs less than this meal. Couldn't be worse. Skip.
Rinconcito Colombiano - I think they have been there for a long time. Six tables. Wall sized photo murals of Colombia. Bright colors. Open until 6:30pm. Part bakery. I just grabbed a cheese, chicken and beef empanada at $2.80 (menu says $2.75) to go because the menu was more expensive than I believe it deserves to be. Beef and chicken seemed machine formed. Beef most mostly bean (some strings of dried beef). The chicken was mostly potato (with strings of chicken). Cheese seemed like Mexican string cheese. Different shell. Sandwiches were $11. Everything else was in the high teens. Breakfast was a bit more in line. Around ten dishes. Kind of who I thought they'd be. Why it took this long. Skip.
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