Bet you can’t guess whose turn it is to pick? 

Ted’s streak of choosing Mexican restaurants continues, as we’re back another round of margaritas, chips and salsa at another WTGW south of the border. Someone please look back and tell me how many weeks were on now. When we hit a full year of his rotations we are going to have to like buy a piñata and throw a party or something.

This week’s pick is out in Springfield Township, home to the Goodyear Blimp hangar, and apparently this place.

I admit I don’t really know exactly what happens at this establishment, nor do I particularly care for cabbage that much that I feel I need a connection to it, but I’m intrigued nonetheless.

And to be fair Ted does have a lettuce dealer, but that’s a story for another time.

Anyway.

Hey look, it’s these decorations again.

These must be the latest in trendy decor for Mexican restaurants because I feel like at least four of Ted’s most recent pics have featured a wall or two full of this same art. Either someone with an Etsy shop of peel and stick art is making a killing or a local artist has been very busy recently.

But here’s something new, Ted’s drink tried to burn the place down.

Guess that’s one way to make sure there really is alcohol in it, no?

This is the Flaming del Lago from the specials menu, and Ted’s reasoning for ordering it was that, well, it’s not often you have the chance to have a drink that’s literally on fire. Fair enough.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who is old enough to have their minds go back to ordering Flaming Dr Peppers in college?

Shane and I chose fire of the less literal kind and split a pitcher of the spicy mango margaritas.

We were not disappointed. Make sure you ask for the salt on the rim of the glasses, because it added to the spice and really made the flavor extra good.

Since we had a theme going, I decided to order the spicy steak burrito from the specials menu. It comes with a topper of queso, chorizo and a spicy sauce. I enjoyed it.

Shane was intrigued with my order and almost switched up, but when he asked our server how large the burrito was he didn’t like the hand sizing he received as a response. So he got the fajita quesadilla instead. And a side of beef enchilada. Because why not.

Ted got the chicken adobo spicy. Which was a kind of fajita type meal with all of the pieces parts served separate, but without the soundtrack of meat sizzling on the skillet as it arrives at your table.

He said it was really good. He was kind of visibly sweating a bit so it definitely didn’t disappoint on the spice aspect.

Ted also commented that usually when he gets any sort of fajita he leaves a pile of onions on the plate because they overload the dish with them, but that wasn’t the case here. He was a member of the clean plate club this time around, not leaving even one onion on the plate. 

Because we all know how much Shane likes to rank things, you are I’m sure already anticipating that this every third week theme of Ted’s has found its way into a list in Shane’s mind. His verdict on Casa del Lago was that it was definitely further up the list than Ted’s last pick (the place that was basically a Chipotle with top shelf alcohol over in Kent) – but of course Latinos still has his heart as the number one seed.

I mean, even free tequila shots at the end of our meal didn’t sway him.

You’ll notice I was taking the photo and not the shot. While I love margaritas, and my drink of choice is tequila and soda with limes, I cannot do single shots of just the alcohol. But I’m not one to let alcohol – or the goodwill gesture of a free shot – go to waste, so it got added into my drink.

So yeah, I’m not sure if anyplace has the ability to knock Latinos out of the number one slot on Shane’s Best Mexican Restaurants in the Area list anytime in the foreseeable future, but if one should then you know that will be a pretty big day in the WTGW world.

Maybe that’s what we reserve the piñata for?

Picked by: Ted (as if you needed me to say it)