I semi-regularly go to Santa Fe Restaurant with some rather questionable acquaintances, entirely for the Chili Con Queso (hereafter referred to as 'delicious cheese dip'). We tend to go on Tuesdays, since they also have budget low-quality tacos...but the real crowd please is and will remain the cheese dip. It's affordable, and sometimes amazing...but the quality and ingredients seem to vary so much from day to day, you're never sure what you're going to get. After a year of debating the various qualities and reasons, we've decided to write the damn things down so we can actually remember when things are awesome.
So here we have it: 26/10/10, cheese dip one.
Given a week has passed, my impressions of this one have faded. For the most part, it seemed a pretty standard dip - fairly thin at first, but thickening towards the bottom. Not very spicy, but it had exactly the right number of chips to balance out the dip. This is actually the first time I've ever seen it happen, as the thickness of the dip and the total number of chips is a careful balance, rarely judged accurately.
So, a brief run down:
Consistency: Varies from too thin to moderately thick, a good balance
Spiciness: Quite low, but they used some in the cooking process. somewhere.
Appearance: Looks like cheese dip to me.
Temperature: Quite acceptable.
Flavour: Quite decent overall. not adventurous, not too boring.
Chips: The cheap, plain yellow ones. Fairly crunchy.
Chip-to-dip-balance: Absolutely perfect. A++ WOULD CHEESE AGAIN.
Really, there's not much more to say about this - except for one unusual variation they sprung on me.
Beer, served pre-salted and with a lightly-browned lime wedge left over from the day before. It makes it a little hard to pour the beer into the glass when there's half a dozen random condiments stacked on the can.
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