Seems like it was just coffee break time and now it's lunchtime already!

Here's a report on a recent meal we had at Chevy's Fresh Mex in Arlington at Pentagon Centre. The food was typical of Chevy's, though I daresay the service was unusually slow and abyssmal.



Guess who was enjoying enormous strawberry margaritas?

We didn't have any appetizers, making use of Chevy's basket of warm tortilla chips and their excellent fresh salsa made from roasted tomatoes, so the salsa is reddish brown instead of bright red.

Entrees here have a bad habit of being way too huge for one person to eat (or at least way more than one should eat), often coming on three tiered plates. Examples are some of what showed up at our table: pork fajitas a/k/a carnitas and a mixed grill platter with grilled chicken, skirt steak, shrimp, and some baby back ribs in a sweet jalapeño glaze.



I was rather more dainty in my selection. I got the tamale platter, opting for one pork tamale in red chile sauce and one chicken tamale in green chile tomatillo sauce, both garnished with crumbled Mexican white cheese. Brown beans, Mexican rice, and some of their good sweet corn tomalito (sort of a light, sweet corn pudding) accompanied the tamales.



Desserts included the regular "chiquita sundae," a cinnamon-covered fried flour tortilla bowl with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce, and a seasonal specialty, individual pineapple upside down cake. I had the cake, and it was delicious. The cake was warm and light. A scoop of vanilla ice cream was garnished with whipped cream, caramel sauce, and toasted coconut.