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[Chad Vander Veen]

La Fiesta, Roque Tacqueria - these are good places. Sol Azteca has the worst service I've ever experienced.

[john]

Do shoppers really make decisions about where to shop based on how old the center looks? If a store offers what I want/need and offers top caliber customer service, I'm there. Yeah, it would be nice if the center looked nice, but it really isn't on my list of must haves.

True, but a lot of people won't look inside or consider it if it looks old. I know I rarely think about eating in this complex. It's not that I don't want to, we just don't really consider it.

[Bill Z]

La Fiesta, Roque Tacqueria - these are good places. Sol Azteca has the worst service I've ever experienced.

Hmm, interesting. I always get great service there.
Must be there judge of good character.

[Bill Z]

True, but a lot of people won't look inside or consider it if it looks old. I know I rarely think about eating in this complex. It's not that I don't want to, we just don't really consider it.

Man, some of the best food I've had come from little holes in the walls. Glad I don't judge a store or restaurant by the looks of their front porch. Or maybe I do and I've learned to look for the rundown and mundane as It rewards me so often.

[Chad Vander Veen]

Hmm, interesting. I always get great service there.
Must be there judge of good character.

Or, they are nice to people who can't use English properly.

[hopeanelli]

Great Mexican need to travel over to Roseville-- EVA's on Vernon Street the best around we drive at least once or twice a month over there for good Mexi Food... In Folsom we eat at La Fiesta.

Another place to travel to is Celia's off 50 on Micron they are really good I am a transplant from the bay area and ate at the original Celia's on Peninsula Ave in San Mateo hadn't been in years went to the one up here a few weeks ago and was impressed the food was as good as when I used to go down there.. Great Salsa...

And of course my mother in laws homemade chili verde and tortillas are the best...

[Darthvader]

Do shoppers really make decisions about where to shop based on how old the center looks? If a store offers what I want/need and offers top caliber customer service, I'm there. Yeah, it would be nice if the center looked nice, but it really isn't on my list of must haves.

You bet they do. A few years back the "old" Raley's was new and packed although there were plenty of other places to shop. But, at that time, it was the place to be seen. Now, places like Bel Air and BJ's are the new, pretty looking, clean places to spend too much money just so your friends can see you aren't shopping at Walmart or Winco and eating at little hole in the wall places next to a run down donut shop.

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

You bet they do. A few years back the "old" Raley's was new and packed although there were plenty of other places to shop. But, at that time, it was the place to be seen. Now, places like Bel Air and BJ's are the new, pretty looking, clean places to spend too much money just so your friends can see you aren't shopping at Walmart or Winco and eating at little hole in the wall places next to a run down donut shop.

I'm not sure people packed the store because of the new fact lift as much as to see what kinds of new things the store carried. JMHO.

Everyone knows the best places to eat are little hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Again, this has never kept us away from a restaurant. Some of our favorite places to eat are absolutely nothing to look at from the outside.

[tgianco]

I recently went to Los Cerros and like it very much.

Haven't been to La Fiesta in a while, but really liked it when i did. I've got to get back there w/ the fam soon.

[Steve Heard]

Another place to travel to is Celia's off 50 on Micron they are really good I am a transplant from the bay area and ate at the original Celia's on Peninsula Ave in San Mateo hadn't been in years went to the one up here a few weeks ago and was impressed the food was as good as when I used to go down there.. Great Salsa...

And of course my mother in laws homemade chili verde and tortillas are the best...

I was a regular at Celia's. Loved the chicken mole enchiladas. I wondered if the one off of 50 was theirs or not.

My wife's grandmother made the best Mexican food I ever had. She would call us to come over and have 'a little sun-ting' for breakfast.

Home made chile rellenos, refries in a skillet with cheese, that she would put under the broiler for a minute or so, Mexican rice (browned in the pan and made with broth, not that orange stuff you get most places), escabeche, tortillas flamed on the stove and her home made salsa. You can't get that kind of stuff very many places. I miss her.

[hopeanelli]

I was a regular at Celia's. Loved the chicken mole enchiladas. I wondered if the one off of 50 was theirs or not.

My wife's grandmother made the best Mexican food I ever had. She would call us to come over and have 'a little sun-ting' for breakfast.

Home made chile rellenos, refries in a skillet with cheese, that she would put under the broiler for a minute or so, Mexican rice (browned in the pan and made with broth, not that orange stuff you get most places), escabeche, tortillas flamed on the stove and her home made salsa. You can't get that kind of stuff very many places. I miss her.

Same family owns the one up here. The San Mateo one was my Friday night Happy Hour hang out for a long time...

I hear ya on the homemade stuff, my mother in law does it but grandma in law did it the best she has been gone for a few years and we truly miss those phone calls to come and get sun-ting...

[stangage70]

The San Mateo one was my Friday night Happy Hour hang out for a long time...

Is that the one by Piazza's?
It used to be a Good Earth restaurant, which I actually went to more often.

[hopeanelli]

Is that the one by Piazza's?
It used to be a Good Earth restaurant, which I actually went to more often.

No don't think it was the Good Earth- Celia's in San Mateo has been there for at least 30+ years if I am correct I remember going to that particular one when I was 10 years old to 12 years old. I remember Good Earth too I think that was across.. Then Celia's came to San Bruno which was closer to home for my Happy Hour Friday's that one used to be La Fiesta... Are you from the Peninsula? I went to Cap so did my husband...

[stangage70]

No don't think it was the Good Earth- Celia's in San Mateo has been there for at least 30+ years if I am correct I remember going to that particular one when I was 10 years old to 12 years old. I remember Good Earth too I think that was across.. Then Celia's came to San Bruno which was closer to home for my Happy Hour Friday's that one used to be La Fiesta... Are you from the Peninsula? I went to Cap so did my husband...

Looks like there are two Celias in San Mateo...
http://celiasrestaur.../locations.html
The Campus one was the location I was referring to. You must mean the Pennisula Ave one?
I have been to the Bruno Celias too.

I mainly ate at Fernando's as it was within walking distance.
I spent three years in the region - not such a long time in the grant scheme...

This link confirms the Micron location as the same lineage.

[cw68]

No don't think it was the Good Earth- Celia's in San Mateo has been there for at least 30+ years if I am correct I remember going to that particular one when I was 10 years old to 12 years old. I remember Good Earth too I think that was across.. Then Celia's came to San Bruno which was closer to home for my Happy Hour Friday's that one used to be La Fiesta... Are you from the Peninsula? I went to Cap so did my husband...

We used to eat at Celia's often when we lived in San Bruno. Yum! One of the few food places there I miss. That and Rolling Pin Donuts.