{"id":7147,"date":"2013-06-12T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2013-06-11T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:39:00","slug":"noms-a-little-taste-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/06\/12\/noms-a-little-taste-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Noms!<\/i>: A little taste of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day, Camosun foodies! Today I\u2019m coming at you with another restaurant review: Adriana\u2019s the Whole Enchilada. Adriana\u2019s is an authentic Mexican-style restaurant, located, conveniently, outside my work at 2140B Keating X Road in Saanichton, which is why I eat there constantly.<\/p>\n

Adriana\u2019s is decorated with paraphernalia themed from Mexico, and the place is quite colourful, albeit a bit small. There are a 4-5 stools to sit and eat, but otherwise this is not a \u201csit down and eat\u201d place, and is more \u201cgrab and go\u201d style. I would actually advise against eating inside during the lunch hour, as the place gets packed up to the door. The staff are consistently friendly and speedy, with Adriana herself usually running around.<\/p>\n

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Adriana\u2019s brings Mexico to… the Keating Cross Road area (photo Patrick Hallihan\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the entire menu is always available to those who can wait, I would advise ordering from the daily specials, as they will be prepared and ready to eat much faster.\u0118In fact, I almost order exclusively from the daily special.\u0118Staples of the daily special menu are tacos de calle, the super taco, and taquitos. The specials range in types of salsa and veg, as well as meat (pulled pork, beef, chicken, or all three).<\/p>\n

Today I had the polo loco taco de calle, which was delicious, as most things there tend to be. Basically, it was a sort of barbecued chicken with coleslaw and chipotle salsa in little tacos: it was awesome. Some of my other favourite items are the chicken enchiladas, chicken chorizo super taco, and the empanadas.<\/p>\n

So why do I like Adriana\u2019s so much? Truth be told, I\u2019m actually not a huge Mexican food fan. Having said that, Adriana\u2019s really delivers on quality with their in-house made foods. They make their own taco shells, chips, salsas, meats, cookies: \u00a0just about everything. The chipotle aioli is especially amazing and can be purchased in a small container.<\/p>\n

Adriana\u2019s the Whole Enchilada is an awesome little restaurant with awesome food. Most of the specials run around $6-$8.50 (includes tax) and typically comes with a free homemade cookie and salsa. My only real complaint is that the restaurant can get very cramped very quickly, so going between 12-1 pm isn\u2019t advisable.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re near Keating X Road, go to Adriana\u2019s for lunch. Even if you\u2019re not the biggest Mexican fan I can almost promise you\u2019ll still love it. And for those that shy away from spice, don\u2019t worry, most of the food is fairly mild and the staff typically warns if something is especially hot that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good day, Camosun foodies! Today I\u2019m coming at you with another restaurant review: Adriana\u2019s the Whole Enchilada. Adriana\u2019s is an authentic Mexican-style restaurant, located, conveniently, outside my work at 2140B Keating X Road in Saanichton, which is why I eat there constantly. Adriana\u2019s is decorated with paraphernalia themed from Mexico, and the place is quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-june-12-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}