I think that every city has a late night Mexican restaurant that every club hopper knows about and reveres. This is that place. It's the grease. Drunk people love grease. I have to admit after a night of drinking, nothing cures a hangover better than super greasy Mexican food. Don't ask me how it works. My standard hangover cure used to be Taco Time, but there is only one Taco Time in Las Vegas and it is too far away for me. Also, I don't really drink very often anymore.
Oh man! Let's talk about Taco Time for a second. Their food is not spectacular as a whole, but the crisp meat burritos, the taquito before taquitos were in vogue, are pure deep fried heaven. I love Taco Time and miss it. I love Taco Time so much that one day I even ended up in the emergency room vomiting blood apparently from Taco Time related food poisoning and I still went to Taco Time.
Greg was driving around one day and I saw that they were putting a Taco Time in my neighborhood. I screamed like a woman getting a free car on Oprah. It scared Greg, but he immediately understood that it was not an overreaction. I was so excited to have Taco Time again. I went it and the manager took my order. I ordered a crisp meat burrito and mexi-fries. He then snorted and said, "You know mexi-fries are just tater tots." My shoulders immediately slumped. Of course, I knew that mexi-fries were just tater tots (with fancy mexi-spice). I love tater tots. I loved them even before Napoleon Dynamite. It was a sure sign that this Taco Time wasn't going to last, not if the manager is berating one of their better products. When I got my crisp meat burrito, it was frozen in the middle and the mexi-fries were undercooked.
It went out of business within 2 months.
Anyway, Roberto's has it's own kind of atmosphere. They have pictures of a lot of the food they have on a menu. What gets me is that even on the pictures, they are still displayed on styrofoam plates. I just figured that if they were going to have appetizing pictures maybe they could have a better display. Even McDonald's has pictures of Big Macs on a cutting board surrounded by fresh vegetables on their menus, as if that's believable.
There are a lot of Roberto's in Las Vegas. The problem with Roberto's is that they don't really have health food. In fact, I would go so far as say that they have unhealth food. I watched them prepare my carne asada nachos (the best thing on the menu). Not only do they deep fry the already cooked tortilla chips, they also take out a ladle and dip it into the deep fat fryer and pour it on the chips!!!! Now, that's flavor! The healthy bonus, given as if an apology for all the grease, is the spicy carrots in their salsa bar. They are delicious and help soak up the grease.
Many Roberto's are 24 hours!
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