The "Works" Nachos - $7.50 (plus sour cream)El Arroyo has always been
a) the place that makes Tex/Mex food that errs more on the side of the "Tex" than the "Mex" (due in large part to their menu's signature item: BBQ chicken, which takes that stalwart of Texas pride, BBQ, and makes some soupy spicy-ketchup stewed chicken and puts it on everything using that name. NOTE: Once I panicked and ordered a BBQ chicken burrito covered in queso...not recommended.)
El Arroyo is also
b) THAT PLACE you go on Thursdays because they have dollar margaritas.
So this particular day maybe I had I think four (margaritas!).
Six big nachos, covered with refried beans, cheese, shredded chicken (NOT BBQ, though it is available), diced tomatoes, guacamole, and jalapenos.
Sour cream (see that tiny thing of it? It was extra. Also LOOK AT my margarita on the right side...number two? YAY)
Chips: Big, half-tostada things which started off the meal well enough, but got really soggy by the time I ate the second one in large part to the excessive amount of the goopy, lardy beans spewed (SPEWED) all over them. The chicken was tasty but tasted like maybe a little BBQ had found its way in there; maybe there is just a thick BBQ cloud that hovers over their entire kitchen and lightly flavors everything that comes out. Like McDonald's putting sugar in everything!
Good amounts of diced tomatoes, guac (delicious and included YAY), and jalapenos. They broiled them and so the chip edges got all brown and crispy.
OVERALL: good proportions, quality ingredients and choices! But marred by a dousing of liquidy diarrhea beans that made my once oven-crispy chips sog.
But I was drunk on those dollaritas and ATE THEM ALL!
