The wifey and me had bidness in southeast Texas, so we ended the day at Nacogdoches so we could eat at La Caretta. Darlin, our oldest had gone to college at SFA, so we have spent a lot of time there. We have eaten at La Caretta many times and have many fond memories there. Of course our credit card has been there even more times because Darlin and her roommate ate there many times with my credit card (thank you daddy).
First of all, they brought us chips and salsa. The chips are normal mexican restaurant chips, there really aren't many restaurants that either stand out as different good or bad. Chips are chips. Givin the chips a 6.5. They are drug down by the salsa.
In the past the salsa was brought to the table in a bottle and an individual bowl was given to each person. You could refill your bowl as many times as you wanted. And you would refill your bowl because the salsa was spicy and tasty. Well, things change and sometimes not for the better. Tonight the salsa was very watery/runny. It had very little taste. A 4 is about as high as I can go here.
I ordered a soft taco, beef enchilada, chili cheese enchilada and rice and beans. The soft taco was good size, plenty of lettuce and cheese and the beef was plenty spicy. This was a good taco. The beef enchilada had the same spicy beef which was very tasty. The enchilada was covered in a chili sauce that was very very spicy. Man this was a good enchilada. The chili cheese enchilada had limited cheese and I never could really get a good read on the taste, mainly because it was topped with the chili sauce same as the beef enchilada. This sauce was so spicy you couldn't find the cheese taste.
There was plenty of extra chili sauce that I mixed with the rice and beans which made them very tasty also.
Givin the entre a 7.75.
I thought I remembered that they gave you a sopapilla at the end of the meal and on the table was honey and butter further reinforcing my expectation of a sopapilla. No sopapilla was coming so minus 1/2 point for setting an expectation and not fulfilling it.
Overall, this meal is a 6.5 after reduction. This is good eats. If you are in the area, you should consider eating here.
Mitcho
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