This post is part of a series called “35 Days of Favorites”, in honor of my 35th birthday. You can read more about the details here…
Our friends introduced us to Taco Del Mar this spring, and my life will never be the same.
I LOVE Mexican food.
I also love having someone else make my food for me, but there are very, very few cheap, fast restaurants that serve anything I can eat, because of diet restrictions.
But Taco Del Mar has saved me!
AND…kids eat free on Sundays! Even better! Our girls will be completely sick of Mexican food long before they’re adults.
For those of you who haven’t tried eating at Taco Del Mar, you most definitely should. It’s like Subway, but with tacos.
So delicious.
If we’re going for something slightly classier than Taco Del Mar, my other favorite would have to be Mongo’s. Make your own stir-fry.
That’s just wonderful with me, because I love stir-fry, and I also love not having to order in a restaurant. With all my silly food restrictions, ordering at a restaurant is a huge pain. Everyone always wants to try to understand what exactly my food issues are. Since that’s fairly complicated, and I barely understand it myself, I really, really don’t like trying to explain it to some random stranger I will never see again.
Mongo’s is simple. You grab your little bowl, wander through the display of chopped veggies that are so colorful and beautiful, it just makes you want to eat super healthy, pick out anything and everything that appeals to you, and then get in line to have your food cooked.
The only time you have to talk to anyone is to tell them if you want your meat and veggies on top of rice or pasta. That’s it! The perfect dining experience, in my opinion. The only way it could be improved on would be if I could go into a restaurant, they could read my mind, and what I most wanted to eat would magically appear at the table, without me needing to talk to anyone, OR having to get it ready myself.
There’s a date idea for Ben – order for me as a surprise.
What’s your favorite restaurant to eat at?
Ordinary Days 
Well the restaurant i usually eat at is mcdonalds but my choice is olive garden
Oh, just one? We love to try new places so our most recent new place was yesterday for Jay’s birthday – went to Five Guys for burgers because Jason LOVES burgers. It was almost like Subway but with burgers – super yummy. Then the place before that was La Bamba – an authentic Mexican restaurant at Confusion Corner. We were the only ones in the restaurant for the majority of our meal. Super tasty but not at all like Tex-Mex. We love Masawa (Ethiopian), Buccacino’s (Italian), Siam Thai (Thai), Clay Oven (Indian) [going there next week after shopping for school room cabinetry at IKEA]. See, we love many different ones. Not sure I could pick just one restaurant since it all depends on what we feel like eating on that particular day.
Oh my husband loves burgers too and i was so shocked when he didn’t like five guys!!
La Bamba also has AWESOME Mexican food! I love it there and it’s all gluten free! 🙂
Oh yum! I’m so happy I read about this place – I love Mexican food as well, and free eating for kids on a Sunday? Yes please! 🙂