Let me tell you about a new eatin' place I know. It's a Mexican restaurant in Antioch called Pancho. Sounds like the beginning of a song, don't it?!
I visited Pancho for the first time last week. After my second visit yesterday, the place moved to the top of my Favorite Music City Mexican Restaurants list. Here's why:
Pancho has a buffet Monday-Friday from 11 am to 2 pm ...
... and it's the finest Mexican buffet I've ever visited. Wait, I'd never been to a Mexican buffet restaurant prior to visiting Pancho.
Pancho's buffet "tables" ain't real big, but each and every thing on those tables packs big, big south-of-the-border flavor: warm 'n' fresh lard-filled tortillas; juicy hunks of chicken and beef, served with sautéed onions, tomatoes and green peppers; seasoned ground beef, and spicy seasoned ground beef with onions and carrots; homemade tamales wrapped in corn husks; juicy hunks o' chorizo sausage; black beans bursting with earthy black-bean flavor; and fluffy Mexican rice.
And then there's the pico and the hot and mild salsa and the tomatilla green sauce. Pancho's pico de gallo has lots o' tomatoes, onions, and peppers ... and a whole lot o' cilantro. Same goes for Pancho's salsas. As for the tomatilla sauce, it not only tastes very "green," it tickles the tip of one's tongue with a muted heat; and then it leaves a hot spot in the back of one's throat which lingers for several minutes -- several "Oh, this is good!" minutes.
A Mexican buffet sounds like a real, real bad idea. Thank God Pancho was able to pull it off.
Pancho Mexican Restaurant
1001 Bell Road
Antioch, TN 37013
615.891.3166
3 comments:
A "Mexican Buffet" sounds pretty cheesy to me. Thank you! I'll be here all week!
That sign is Politically Incorrect.
Sincerely,
The People's Committee
I went there today. I won't be going back. The taco shells tasted like they were a day old. The quesadillas were pretty good, but the rest is not worth my money.
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