Dining Pick of the Week: El Herradero
1725 E. Warm Springs Road, No. 5,
at Spencer Street, 270-3444
Add this small, comfortable place to your list of restaurants that advertises "authentic Mexican food" and actually delivers it. Breakfast is served throughout the day, featuring huevos rancheros, chips with salsa and eggs, and scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage or ham. Popular sandwiches are made with Mexican bread stuffed with refried beans, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and avocado with choice of grilled beef, pork, chicken or milanesa (breaded steak). There are hard and soft tacos, burritos, enchiladas, quesadillas, fajitas and shrimp entrees such as garlic shrimp, a la diabla and tostada-style shrimp with tomatoes, cilantro, avocado and onion. Other entrees are pollo en mole, chicken in sour cream, beef steak with bell pepper, onions, bacon and cheese, catfish filet, chili relleno, ranchero steak, chili verde (pork in green chili), chimichangas, taquitos and Nachos Machos, where chicken or beef is piled on tortilla chips with cheese and beans. Several salads are grilled chicken and the Grand, where a flour tortilla basket is filled with beef or chicken, beans, lettuce, tomatoes and jack cheese. Breakfast begins at $6.99 and combination plates at $7.99. El Herradero is open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. - Jack Bulavsky
