Friday, 5/21/2010

We made it to our hotel in Carmel tonight by 8pm. Not too shabby. We stopped about an hour North of Carmel for dinner in Morgan Hill, CA. We found Las Palmas with the help of our Garmin GPS. As we drove up, one restaurant sign said "Fine Mexican Dining" and another said "Mexican Dining -and- Miniature Golf". It looked really nice inside and we were immediately seated. The salsa was good and spicy hot. I really liked it. But, we were only mildly satisfied with the rest of our meal.


First of all, the margaritas that we ordered were filled with too much margarita mix and not enough tequila. So, that was disappointing. You would think a Mexican restaurant in California would be able to get that right. And then the food... Ben and Spencer ordered enchiladas. They were fine, but lacked flavor. I ordered a cheese quesadilla, which I planned on sharing with Katie, and tortilla soup. The quesadilla was just not cooked enough. And the soup was broth based and really didn't have any flavor either. It had beans and carrots in it, which I have never seen in a tortilla soup before. And, strangely enough, it didn't have avocado in it. Tortilla soup always has avocado in it in the Seattle area. Katie ate some of my beans and tons of black olives. She wanted nothing to do with the quesadilla. Jennifer had a chicken tostada. She thought it was good. Anyway, we didn't really think it was "fine" dining. The atmosphere was fine, but overall, the food... not so much.






Ben and Spencer tried to go get us a bottle of wine to share at the hotel, but found out that the stores that sell wine all close by 8pm. Oh well.