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La Casita (Mexican cuisine) $$

8.75
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41240 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, 94538 (Directions)

510-657-8602

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Long-standing traditional style mexican restaurant.
Reviewer: Jason Total Reviews: 1040 Reviewed: 6/24/2004 Rating: 8.5 My photo gallery	La Casita is a local favorite for Fremont. A tiny mexican restaurant lined with spanish tiles and traditional murals. The thing to get is the Chicken and Rice soup. If you're sick with a cold or flu, order a quart of the chicken and rice soup, you'll feel sooo much better. About their meals Salad - pretty weak but who goes to a mexican restaurant for salad? This wont hurt their score. Salsa - one of my favorites...I wonder if V8 is their secret ingrediant Beans - refried...woohoo...I like it but they need to go easy on the cheese, they like to pile it on Rice - fluffy and moist..I tend to like my rice just a bit drier but their rice is still very good Tortillas - about average, I've had better tortillas at Trader Joes Meat - good stuff but I dont recall the asada being out of this world If I had to choose a sit down mexican restaurant in Fremont, La Casita is at the top of my list.

Reviewer: Terry Total Reviews: 739 Reviewed: 6/19/2004 Rating: 9 My photo gallery	La Casita has been in Fremont for a LONG time. At least since the early 80s. I have been going here since then. It is very much in the traditional style with fatty refried beans, lotsa cheese, etc. Great stuff. La Casita is a very clean place and well taken care of, operating out of the same location all these years. It looks to be a converted house. La Casita has been known all these years for their single and double-item entrees. I usually opt for the double enchilada dinner. Dinner comes with the entree, rice (very fluffy and tasty), beans (refried of course, quite good), and your choice of soup or salad. The salad is pretty good (fresh, nothing to complain about) but the soup is the thing to get. Its chicken and rice. (so vegetarians beware) but when I was eating meat, it was soo good. As far as I know, its still just as good.

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Reviewer: Shannon Total Reviews: 28 Reviewed: 9/12/2006 Rating: 8 My photo gallery	Driving to this restaurant was slightly confusing at first because #1: there was a fair going on down the street and some roads were blocked off and #2: Fremont Blvd turns into Washington and the restaurant suddenly disappeared! The outside of the restaurant is very traditional looking and because of the blinds, you can't really peek into the interior which also explains the slightly dim lighting. We got there on a Sunday afternoon around 1 p.m. and the restaurant was 75% full. Once you enter, there's a semi-enclosed bar on your right and the screens were showing th first NFL game of the season. I was actually hoping to watch the Men's US Open Finals instead but because I didn't want to fight the football fans, I took a seat in the back of the restaurant. A server immediately brought out a basket of warm tortilla chips and mildy spicy salsa. The chips were very crunchy and the salsa was delicious, not too spicy not too bland. Not long after, the waitress came out and I ordered an Enchilada/Flautas Combination ($8.75). After about 20 minutes (a bit longer than desired but reasonable considering how packed the restaurant was), my piping hot plate came out. Every item on my plate was topped with cheese, just the way my lactose tolerant body likes it. Normally I love refried beans but these were too dry and I didn't even eat half of the portion. Portions were huge by the way (I only finished half my plate and still felt like a beached whale). The one beef enchilada sauce was unique and full of flavor, not spicy. There were two beef flautas were very crunchy and unlike many other flautas I've had, they weren't oily at all. The rice was moist and mixed with shredded cheese (instead of topped). Bathrooms were not particularly the cleanest but I didn't expect them to be. I'd make a return visit if I was in the area and if I'm extremely famished! When it comes to Mexican food, I take pride in paying the least amount possible!


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“Visited July 3, 2007 for Tacos de Carne Asada lunch at $11.25 (bad). Two double corn tortilla tacos (good) with rice (OK), frijoles (good) with sour cream/guacamole for the tacos. Only two waiters for the busy lunch crowd (bad). Tough to park.”

7/5/2007 5:34:40 PM