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#3

ROJO

(It’s a soft “J”)

Rojo was our final effort on finding the best Mexican Restaurant for Mexican Monday’s and it definitely was the nicest place we visited on our quest. Although we feel that it just didn’t make it beyond the 3rd best place we had been.

Rojo is the blue building in the map above in the Novi Fountain Walk. Not the most Mexican themed but a a very modern and contemporary place. We walked in through the archway and was seated by the greeter. They weren’t busy maybe 2 other tables at the time. We opted for a table as the booths were super romantic for a couple guys eatin’ some Mexican on a Monday.

It just so happened that we got the lucky table with a plate stuck to the table from a piece of gum! Yeah how does that happen?! The Hostess/Waitress was super apologetic and moved us to a new clean table. No gum here. I guess normally they don’t offer free chips n’ Salsa but she got us some anyways for the little gum situation. Their Chips n’ Salsa was set up much nicer than the freebies at some of the others. You get your base salsa and a couple of bottles of hot sauce on the side to spice it to your liking’s.

Now what I didn’t expect was the price for lunch. I expected this place to be much more expensive than the other places we had been. In the $12 to $20 range for taco’s beans and rice and normally it would be during dinner. For lunch time they have some great specials. 6 different meals for 6 buks. That’s pretty good. Now normally you don’t get the free chips but hey it’s a good deal. And I think on Tuesday’s they have 50 cent Taco’s or something. So the price is great for lunch.

I thought the taco’s were good. The beef was better than th chicken, beans and rice were the best of the bunch I had. All in all it was a good place, just not the Mexican atmosphere you so desire on a Monday and no free chips so it ended up here in the bottom half of the top of the list with 3 or so stars out of 5.

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