Sometimes Rice and Beans are the Best Part of a Meal

This week I went to another one of my favorite restaurants from Austin, Chuy’s. They serve tex-mex food and have a good amount of vegetarian options on the menu.

Chips and salsa hit the table as soon as we sat down, and nice tall glasses of water, which after the game, tasted better than usual. They also gave us creamy jalapeño sauce to go with the chips which is one of my absolute favorites perfectly balancing the spice with creamy ranch sauce.

            For my meal I decided to try the veggie enchiladas. In it was spinach, onions, zucchini, yellow squash, red bell peppers, serranos, roasted green chiles and corn. It was topped with cheese and came together rolled in a homemade blue corn tortilla with topped with their famous ranchero sauce. Ranchero sauce is fairly mild made of roasted vegetables and is meat free. They also came with a side of rice and beans just as all the other enchilada plates do.

            To be quite honest I wasn’t a fan of these enchiladas. They were hard to cut and nearly impossible to keep the vegetables from falling out as I took a bite. There was also just a glob of spinach thrown on the top which was not pleasing aesthetically or to eat. The blue corn tortilla was also really dry and there wasn’t enough sauce to cover the whole meal.

            If I was vegetarian, I probably wouldn’t return to Chuy’s, or if I did, I would order something different.