Cocina Real - Lawrenceburg

Have nothing there, that was not amazing!! My favourite place to eat!!

I have eaten in Cosina Real for many years and like every restaurant they occasionally fall short. However, the taste is excellent. The portions are huge. The best dish IMO is the Molcajete, but cooked with Chipotle Paprika in it. It's enough to feed 3 adults. Their shrimps are delicious and well dimensioned. Pollo poblano, Guiso Mexicano and Speedy Gonzalez are all delicious. I have rarely, if at all, since it opened, ate something that was not good. And I've eaten here almost weekly.

So blaaand. Everything is so dry and bland. I have eaten several times here and every meat you order is incredibly dry and tasteless. However, the sides are extremely salty and their tea tastes always fermented. A beautiful place.

I've been here twice now. The first time, I gave it the benefit of the doubt. After the second time I see that this is an awful place. It seems clean, but that's about where the positives end. The staff is very rude and inattentive. We had to flag down a waiter that was standing right next to our table watching the TV mounted on the wall. The food is even worse. I had the carnitas on my first visit. I've had carnitas at dozens of resteraunts, and never before have I found a rendition that was so bland and overcooked. Carnitas is roast pork, for those who don't know, and it's usually well seasoned and very tender. This was not seasoned at all and so tough that it was hard to chew. On my second visit, I ordered the chimichanga. This is another favorite of mine, and again I've had it in a lot of places from Florida to New York. This was the smallest chimichanga that I've ever seen. It looked like they took a frozen burrito from the grocery store and fried it. It didn't taste any better, either. It was filled with chopped steak and nothing else. The steak was bland, dry, and I'm confident that it was boiled instead of grilled or roasted. My girlfriend got the fajitas both times, two different versions. Both of those dishes would have been okay if they had not been overcooked, dry, and so covered in salt that you couldn't taste anything else. I've never been to a Mexican restaurant that I wouldn't be willing to return to, until now.

Great food. Kindness