Just after reviewing our newest buffet restaurant, I made the quick transition from Vegas to San Diego without even leaving our town.
San Diego Mexican Restaurant offers a wide range of flavorful cuisine. Before becoming a full-service restaurant, this place was best known to the South Waco community as Chepas and was open Friday to Sunday with a minimal menu. The weekend menu consisted of tamborcitos and enchiladas potosinas on Fridays, barbacoa tacos on Saturdays and, of course, your traditional menudo on Sundays.
Now it's called San Diego and continues to offer the delectable tamborcitos and enchiladas potosinas on Fridays only. For old-time sake, I decided to patiently wait all week for what I like to call “Five-Dollar Friday.”
So what can you expect for pocket change?
Well, for $5 you get 10 of these fried, baby gorditas filled with barbacoa (shredded beef), lettuce, tomato, onion and of course the house made green salsa. If you're like my friend Dustin and anything green makes you hurl, they also offer the red house made salsa.
If you're starving like I was, you can always add on a $5 plate of the enchiladas potosinas. The 15 bite-sized enchiladas will remind you of a soft tostada topped with chorizo and potato then garnished with fresh cabbage and side kicked with a jalepeño pepper. To wash all the yumminess down, the restaurant offers fresh water and glass-bottled Mexican sodas.
If trying new things really isn't what you're into, they also offer your “Vitamina T” - tostadas, tacos and tortas.
Bitter sweet bite: San Diego currently has a “FOR SALE” sign posted on their doors. It’s still in question whether the local restaurant will continue with the same recipes with new ownership or if its doors are set to be closed for good. But don't let the sign scare you away. The family has assured me that until a decision is fully made they will continue to offer their delicious food to their fellow Wacoans.
