{"id":60,"date":"2013-05-31T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:36:44","slug":"el-tapatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/2013\/05\/31\/el-tapatio\/","title":{"rendered":"El Tapatio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we ate at El Tapatio. El Tapatio is a Mexican restaurant located on Gordon Drive. The exterior of this restaurant really isn\u2019t much to look at. It\u2019s a simple restaurant with a brick exterior and a sign on top. It wasn\u2019t dirty looking. It was just very simple.\u00a0 Entering El Tapatio we were seated quickly. The room decorated with Mexican themed paintings and statues. It was decorated like your average Mexican restaurant. If you\u2019ve seen one, you\u2019ve pretty much seen them all. An odd thing I noticed about this place is the small size of the dining room. It seemed like the dining room was really small compared to the size of the building.<\/p>\n

The menu contained various Mexican foods including a few entrees that were unique to El Tapatio. For example, they had a dish that our group referred to as \u201cthe meat tower. It was literally several types of meat served with a shrimp skewer sticking out of it. That\u2019s pretty funny and cool in my opinion. Another interesting entr\u00e9e was Mexican steak. I always enjoy the spices put on a Mexican steak. Although these dishes were tempting, I ended up ordering a shrimp trio\u2026\u2026\u2026.and a taco. I don\u2019t know why. It\u2019s a Mexican restaurant so I ordered a taco. Leave me alone.<\/p>\n

My meal arrived fairly quickly. It was hot and freshly cooked. The shrimp were cooked three different ways. There were shrimp fried in a coconut-based breading. The second kind was a shrimp marinated and fried on a skewer. The third kind of shrimp was pan fried and cooked in a sweet and spicy sauce that I couldn\u2019t identify. I almost thought of it as a Mexican barbecue sauce.\u00a0 This dish was awesome. The shrimp were large and there were a lot of them. The flavors weren\u2019t just coating the shrimp. They were cooked into the meat of the shrimp. The rice was good, but it almost made me think of Asian fried rice. I think I even saw pieces of egg in it. I liked it either way. I never even got too the taco because there was so many shrimp. I ended up taking it home. It looked like your average Tex-Mex with ground hamburger.<\/p>\n

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El Tapatio is a pretty good Mexican Restaurant.\u00a0 I\u2019d recommend this place to anyone that likes Mexican food. The prices are very fair there. You can spend anywhere from five to fifteen dollars depending on what you want. I spent on the higher range, but it was well worth it. I\u2019d definitely go back to El Tapatio anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we ate at El Tapatio. El Tapatio is a Mexican restaurant located on Gordon Drive. The exterior of this restaurant really isn\u2019t much to look at. It\u2019s a simple restaurant with a brick exterior and a sign on top. It wasn\u2019t dirty looking. It was just very simple.\u00a0 Entering El Tapatio we were seated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/siouxcityeats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}