No. 125 - Brown Bag Deli in Point Loma
By now, most of you know that the wife has a new job in Point Loma (she's the Bar Manager at The San Diego Yacht Club) so I'm tasting over that way now, at least for a while, as there isn't a lot to eat over there (it's a small community).
I wasn't impressed with this place at all and don't want to get into the business of listing everything wrong with it (virtually everything).
No. 126 - Santana's Mexican Grill:
Even though we've been here 3 years on the 21st, I've never eaten at a Santana's despite the fact that the Boy eats there almost weekly as there's one close to his job (he doesn't care for much of their menu but likes the quesadillas and the bean and cheese burrito).
Part of it has to do with the fact that it's one of many small local chains, another part is that the cast members of MTV's "Real World" seem to have been food poisoned there (the Point Loma location) last year and the final part is because I've become increasingly jaded about low end Mexican food here.
It's all fairly good, it's all the same and even though this chain would probably make a serious impression in the culinary landscape of Northern California where shredded beef tacos or enchiladas are few and far between, it's just part of the background here.
I had the beef taco / cheese enchilada combination plate with rice and beans and the Pepsi came with the deal. The taco was acceptable although I'm not a big fan of cheese enchiladas, the beans were generic as was the rice and it was slightly less than $6 with tax.
They currently have 6 locations.
See their web site here: http://www.santanas.com/
No. 127 - Red Sails Inn in Point Loma:
Spectacular view of the bay, lots of mediocre frozen & fried items, a great jumbo shrimp cocktail, mainly pointed at the tourists, our best guess.
We do have to admit the service was good and prices were semi-reasonable but that's just not enough...
No. 128 - Cancun Mexican Grill across the street from the Sports Arena:
This is literally the straw that broke the camel's back (see note below).
Anywhere else, this might be a hit but here, it's just one of literally dozens of places doing exactly the same thing and rather poorly as well.
Simply put: there are way too many of this kind of restaurant here and it's not fun to watch them all die a slow and horrible death.
Nothing is great, it's all very humdrum at best and it's only a matter of time until they eat each other (hopefully).
NOTE:
Finally, this is the last issue of this newsletter.
I've become increasingly bored with the poor service and mediocre food here and have much better things to do than chronicle it.
It's been fun but time to move on...
