Editorial Review
La Fiesta Taqueria (Midtown) (Sacramento, CA)
Score: 9 / 10 Reviewed by: Eric
After having eaten at least ten burritos from this place, I can really lay down the law on La Fiesta. And Eric's Law is like Eric's Love: Hard and Fast.*
La Fiesta has, quite honestly, burst like a meteor onto my Sacramento dining scene. It has pretty much supplanted my previous Mexican Mainstay (Los Jarritos) as my go-to spot. Read on, Constant Eater, as I take you to a small slice of burrito heaven.
The joy starts when you catch yourself thinking, I wonder how I could get my hands on one of their custom futbol jerseys? Then you grab some chips and salsa while you stand in line, only there's not much time to eat them because the guy at the cash register moves like Keanu Reeves in that scene where he parries Agent Smith with one hand while pleasuring Carrie Moss with the other. Oh--you didn't see that version? Maybe your illegally downloaded copy was cropped wrong or something.
No sooner have you found a table than your burrito arrives, served like you should be when having your first encounter with Slutty Susan behind the high school gym: double-wrapped. You can stand it on its end (the burrito, not Slutty Susan. Well actually, you can do that with her, too, but that's not really germane in a burrito review), peel away the foil and dig right in.
I've found that the coup de grace/etat/ville here is the half pastor, half pollo asado super burrito. The juices from the pork mill around amongst the chicken, and the chicken absorbs just enough to be affected without losing its essential fowlness. If you take your time and eat some more chips, the cheese has time to melt properly, and the temperature differentials even out. The salsa bar has a fine selection of four salsas, as well as limes o' plenty, spicy carrots and potatoes, and those long thin green deals whose name escapes me at the moment.
The scenery is not bad, either. It's located very close to a hospital and some other medical facilities, so you get attractive nurse/receptionists and strapping young EMTs--something for everyone to check out. La Fiesta also has Newcastle, Fat Tire and Tecate on tap for $2.49 a pint--you won't find a better deal on beer at any Mexican joint. As an added bonus, you get a flatscreen TV with the usual jiggly, scantily-clad Latino women and bizarro old men.
Fantastic in all respects.
*Flagrantly stolen from Futurama.
–Eric
posted 12/6/2005 4:26 PM, updated on 7/26/2006 12:34 PM
