{"id":7564,"date":"2012-06-19T04:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2012-06-19T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:23:02","slug":"el-paso-tx-chicos-tacos-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7564","title":{"rendered":"El Paso, TX &#8211; Chico&#8217;s Tacos Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chicos.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7593\" title=\"chicos\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chicos-300x154.png\" alt=\"Chico's Tacos, El Paso\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>\u00a0(From our archives) I think my favorite three-word phrase of endorsement for restaurant is not \u201cCredit Cards Accepted,\u201d but rather \u201cOpen since 19XX,\u201d with the \u201cXX\u201d has to be (my criteria) at least thirty years ago \u2013 forty or fifty is even better.<\/p>\n<p>Chico\u2019s Tacos in El Paso (4 locations) is one of those places, dating back to 1953. Chico\u2019s reminds me of a similar haunt of mine, \u201cLucy\u2019s,\u201d (now &#8220;Cinco de Mayo&#8221;) in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Both establishments offer a very basic Mexican \/ American menu at very low prices. Lucy\u2019s menu has more on offer and is open 24 hours; Chico\u2019s does the volume, and the tables are packed, and long lines persist at the ordering counter every hour they are open.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbig attraction\u201d at Chico\u2019s is their \u201cfamous\u201d rolled tacos at three for a buck. In other Americanized Mexi diners, Chico\u2019s rolled tacos might be called \u201ctaquitos,\u201d as they are short, tubular, stuffed tortillas fried, and bathing in a shallow cardboard dish of salsa, and covered with a mound of shredded cheese.<\/p>\n<p>They are served with an accompanying cup of green fiery salsa, and other than I couldn\u2019t figure out any delicate way (and I am SO delicate) to eat them (do I plunge my fingers into the bowl, or do I stab them whole with my plastic fork?) they were deliciouso!<\/p>\n<p>Chico\u2019s \u201cother\u201d specialty is the beef stew burrito, also for $1.00, chunks of beef simmered in sauce, saut\u00e9ed potato cubes rolled in a flour tortilla.<\/p>\n<p>The menu is rounded out with jumbo cheeseburgers (I see these in most of the Mexican lunch counters I go to) and they were the most expensive things on the menu, at $1.39.<\/p>\n<p>Chico\u2019s patrons last night either really liked the food or were buying for their entire neighborhoods, because sales I saw rung up ranged from $30 &#8211; $50.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I under-ordered.<\/p>\n<p>My bill was $3.38, including lemonade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/132\/904282\/restaurant\/Eastside\/Chicos-Tacos-El-Paso\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/904282\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Chico's Tacos on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(From our archives) I think my favorite three-word phrase of endorsement for restaurant is not \u201cCredit Cards Accepted,\u201d but rather \u201cOpen since 19XX,\u201d with the \u201cXX\u201d has to be (my criteria) at least thirty years ago \u2013 forty or fifty is even better. Chico\u2019s Tacos in El Paso (4 locations) is one of those places,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7564\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">El Paso, TX &#8211; Chico&#8217;s Tacos Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,34,35],"tags":[1292,3404,3447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}