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El Titanic (Mexican cuisine)  $

 7.5
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1505 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose, 95128  (Directions)


408.370.0490


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Seafood and mexican restaurant themed after the Titanic ship


Reviewer: Jason
Total Reviews: 1040
Reviewed: 5/1/2008
Rating: 7.5
My photo gallery 		El Titanic is one heck of an interesting name for a Mexican restaurant. Not sure what the significance it has to the owner but I'm going to take a couple of guesses

Guess 1 - saw the movie and fell in love with Leo/Kate

Guess 2 - When James Cameron was shooting near Puerto Nuevo, the crew visited a particular Mexican restaurant so many times, it enabled its owner to move up to the bay area and dedicate the restaurant to Titanc film crew.

Guess 3 - had a great grandfather/mother that was on the Titanic

Guess 4 - Jason is wasting page space by typing these idiotic guesses and should be writing about the food.

Guess 5 - Sounds more appealing than Taqueria Titanico

The doorway opens to a vast restaurant. It nearly takes 20 paces to reach the front counter. And if that wasn't enough, our host/waitress didn't seem too thrilled to be taking our orders. She was definitely in a bad mood as we watched her take our orders and toss pens/papers behind the counter. I'm thinking if she was in a good mood, she would've told us to grab a table and take our orders from there like she did with the other customers.

Browsing the menu, there was only 1 order I had to get; The Titanic.

The Titanic was a steak and shrimp plate. It came with corn tortillas, rice, beans, salad, slices of avocado, slices of beef, and shrimps.

shrimps - small to medium sized shrimp grill with garlic and butter. Nothing spectacular about these and heavy on the oil.

Rice/beans - rice was good, beans were kinda dry.

salad - served with 1000 islands which I can't stand so it sat there untouched.

steak - the pictures make the meat to look terrible but in reality, they were fatty good. Meat was tender and it didn't hurt that there were lines of fat throughout the meat. There is a carniceria next door, maybe they were able to get a choice cut of skirt steak.

The plate overall was average but the carne asada was very good to great. I'd be willing to make a return visit to investigate their carne asada in the form of a burrito or taco.
 


Reviewer: Terry
Total Reviews: 739
Reviewed: 5/4/2008
Rating: 7.5
My photo gallery 		We drove by this place and it looked so rundown, we knew we had to give it a try. We walk in and its surprisingly clean - and (true to name) GIGANTIC inside. I went with a veggie burrito today. We placed our order and waited. There were chips and a salsa bar to tide us over. Chips were just ok, salsa was tasty.

Burrito arrived. I give them props for size. This thing has serious girth (true to its name)! It was packed with beans and rice for sure, and since it was a super burrito, the guac and sour cream. Tomato, salsa and lettuce finished it off. It actually wasn't bad, ingredients were fresh, but overall it was a bit uninspired - nothing to make it stand out aside from its monstrous proportions.

As a bonus, I had to hear Jason during the entire meal say "El Titanico".
 
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