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Mi Puebla Restaurant
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- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
10 reviews for Mi Puebla Restaurant
I really enjoy this restaurant and have visited on several occasions. The staff is always very kind and they are quick with service.
As part of every meal, Mi Puebla brings each table a basket of chips with salsa. The salsa is always fresh with nice chopped tomatoes (not blended into a sauce puree like you can buy in jars).
Their mango salsa ($2 for small, $5 for large) is unique and delicious. It is my favorite item in the restaurant. Note: Some dishes come with mango salsa on the side, so before ordering a separate side, go check to save some money.
The guacamole ($2 for small, $5 for large) is above average and tastes good with their chips.
I have had their Sopes (Corn Masa Mix) with Chorizo for $10.75. I really like their Chorizo as it is just spicy enough. The Sopes are tasty and seemingly authentic.
The burrito is a beast (12 inches) and comes with rice, beans, Monterrey jack, and has sides of mango salsa, sour cream, guac, and tomato salsa for $10.75. The seafood burrito is especially good and comes with your choice of flounder, crab meat, or shrimp. I ordered mine with shrimp and it was a feast that could not be finished.
Here's the only odd thing about the operation of the restaurant: Their menu is cumbersome and initially confusing because they sort their menu via the meats that they use. Meaning, chicken, beef, chorizo, and seafood are all separated on different pages, despite many options being the same. For example, each meat has a burrito listed. Their old menu was more streamlined, which provided the dish (burrito) and the listed options of beef, chicken, chorizo, seafood alongside.
The only complaint anyone I've been with has had was that the fried ice cream they ordered was actually just ice cream rolled in corn flakes. I'm told that this is a style for fried ice cream, but I'm not sure.
I have never ordered dessert or purchased anything from the bakery, but everything looks delicious.
This is a great, casual BYO restaurant in historic Mount Airy and I am never disappointed.
Overall, very good food. Definitely inconsistent though. I've stopped going there as often as I used to because of that reason. Seafood Risotto is great depending who makes it. Betabel salad is fabulous. Quesadillas are always great. The pricing is also inconsistent, which can be frustrating. Good food though!!
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I was so excited when I moved the neighborhood to be so close to a big Mexican restaurant. The people there are nice, and the menu has a lot of great sounding dishes, but having gone 5 times now, it's simple underwhelming every single time. Also, some of the blandest chorizo I've ever encountered. If everything was 2/3 the price I could give it another star, I suppose, but it's a shame that the only Mexican place (seemingly) on this entire side of the city is so totally boring.
There are a lot of good things about Mi Puebla, first and foremost the friendly and attentive service. The people who work/own the place are always nice and welcoming. The atmosphere is comfortable and casual, and it's a BYO.
I get takeout more than I dine in here, most often just for the tortilla soup. Damn is their tortilla soup good. Highly recommended.
Their vast array of desserts in the front display case must not be missed. I mean it when I say that the best cheesecake I've ever eaten in my life comes from this place. No exaggeration. So creamy and simple and perfect.
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i finally had brunch here last sunday, and now i am kicking myself for living so close to mi puebla and not visiting sooner!
chips and fresh salsa were immediately delivered to our table along with the bright, extensive hard plastic menus. the first thing i noticed was the variety of mexican sodas, including the elusive mexican coca cola - all made without high fructose corn syrup!
there was a very large party in there at the same time, so service was a little slow. we had long since finished our chips by the time the food arrived.
i had scrambled eggs with spicy beef and pepper jack cheese. it was delicious, but i definitely had to add hot sauce as i like food a bit spicier than most. the sides of coleslaw and mango salsa were outstanding! extremely fresh, light and flavorful.
we skipped dessert since brunch was very filling, though we did stop to ogle the dessert case. they have a key lime pie with individual slices that could feed four!
i can't wait to go back for dinner. i don't care how full i am, i'll cram in dessert too somehow and roll the seven blocks home.
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Although the dining area of this Mexican establishment was on the smallish size (8 tables for 4, 4 tables for 2), the area was well lit, brightly -- not garishly -- painted and extremely clean. The large, floor to ceiling windows add to a spacious feel.
The service was extremely prompt. Chips and a fresh, home-made bowl of Salsa swiftly settled in front of me, followed in minutes by a menu and in a short while a waitress waiting for my order. Prompt, not pushy, and pleasantly professional, from the maitre d' to the salsa-bringer to the waitress, all were soft-spoken, efficient, reserved, but not unfriendly.
I ordered the mole pablano platter, which included a leg and a breast cooked thoroughly and very moist. The mole sauce had just the right touch of bitterness underlying a rich, chocolate-like texture. The reddish-brown background of well-cooked beans maintained a memory of firmness; the foundation of rice was moist and clumpy.
The overall flavor was fresh and quite tasteful. Not too spicy; not too salty. The portions were fine, but I'd have preferred more beans and maybe a cup more rice.
For dessert, I ordered a cup of decaf (sorry, gotta watch the heart condition! ) and a slice of chocolate mousse cake (Hey, I ain't watchin' that much. A guy's gotta live a little!) The cake was made on the premises (in the Pasteleria mentioned in the name) and was irresistable: reality approaching imagination! The whipped cream (ah! to heck with the heart condition!) was airy and not too sweet and I believe was home-made as well. Unfortunately, this heavenly rendition was slightly marred by the tastelessness of the coffee.
The pasteleria does double duty as a take-out counter; I'm not sure if the entire menu is available for take-out.
The bill for this enjoyable, fresh, authentic course was under $20.00. I recommend you try it.
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Wow! What a great place. It is no frills, but that leaves the emphasis on the food. They really should consider dimming the lighting for a little more intimacy.
Great food, great price, love a good BYOB!
The owner, Placido, has created a strange menu mixing dishes from his home in Mexico with semi-gourmet American dishes he learned at Roller's. And her serves all the great cakes and pies that Roller took with him from Frog/Commissary. I usually just go in for carrot cake, pecan pie, key lime pie, etc but the food is very good, even if it is not as authentically Mexican as the guys who cook it. And unlike Roller, they now take credit cards.
I used to work in the area, and eating lunch here is one of the things I miss the most, so the other night my husband and some friends had dinner there. I grew up with San Antonio Tex Mex, which this is not (I asked when they first opened, and the people are from central Mexico), but I like their style. My favorites are the salmon quesadilla and the swordfish tacos. They also do a nice mango salsa that comes on a lot of the plates. I wish it was closer, because I haven't found any fish tacos yet in my quest to try all the Mexican restaurants out in my area.
Service has always been excellent. It is a byob. Our friends brought a bottle of wine, and they brought out glasses without being asked, and opened the wine for us.
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Ate here with the in-laws while out house-hunting. Decent mex, at pretty reasonable prices. Mole sauce superb, as are the salads. Dinged for not having several dishes listed on menu, for forgetting one order (at a table of 4), and for using flour instead of corn tortillas (explicitly ordered).
