{"id":1318,"date":"2016-12-28T04:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","slug":"a-changing-sola-welcome-el-burro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"A Changing SOLA: Welcome “EL Burro”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bwahhaaaa… the place is already closed and gone. \u00a0Awaiting the next iteration.<\/p>\n

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Last month, South Lamar (SOLA) lost a 15+\/- year old dining establishment. A a “cheap and cheerful” go-to spot called La Feria<\/a>. It wasn’t expensive, it certainly had character, however,\u00a0it was not a hopping place. The neighborhood was sad to see it go.<\/p>\n

So out with the old and in with the new. Venture a few blocks up the street\u00a0and you’ll find El Burro<\/a>, a sister restaurant to Vox\u00a0Table<\/a>. Being a resident in the hood, I had to give it a whirl, of course. The place is cute, has a great bar serving super-effective margaritas and the menu is what I would call “upscale Mexican.” The menu\u00a0is limited in scope, but there’s certainly plenty of items\u00a0to choose from. Our waiter was exceptionally well-engaged with our table, and most notably,\u00a0he\u00a0took the time to explain the menu, options and dining concept. It was certainly more costly than you’d expect to pay for a typical Mexican dinner, but this is Lamar Union after all and I am\u00a0sure they are being placed over a barrel paying\u00a0for\u00a0rent. It’s obvious that the Italian restaurant,\u00a0Cantine<\/a>, located across the street from El Burro\u00a0struggles to bring in guests and I hope the same fate is not shared with El Burro. It is worth a visit and know that you’ll get a delicious and stiff margarita from the bartender. My meal was really quite delicious. It isn’t TexMex, but it isn’t Fonda San Miguel either; it’s something in between.<\/p>\n

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Bwahhaaaa… the place is already closed and gone. \u00a0Awaiting the next iteration.     Last month, South Lamar (SOLA) lost a 15+\/- year old dining establishment. A a “cheap and cheerful” go-to spot called La Feria. It wasn’t expensive, it certainly had character, however,\u00a0it was not a hopping place. The neighborhood was sad to see it go. So out with the old and in with the new. Venture a few blocks up the street\u00a0and you’ll find El Burro, a sister restaurant to Vox\u00a0Table. Being a resident in the hood, I had to give it a whirl, of course. The place is cute, has a great bar serving super-effective margaritas and the menu is what I would call “upscale Mexican.” The menu\u00a0is limited in scope, but there’s certainly plenty of items\u00a0to choose from. Our waiter was exceptionally well-engaged with our table, and most notably,\u00a0he\u00a0took the time to explain the menu, options and dining concept. It was certainly more costly than you’d expect to pay for a typical Mexican dinner, but this is Lamar Union after all and I am\u00a0sure they are being placed over a barrel paying\u00a0for\u00a0rent. It’s obvious that the Italian restaurant,\u00a0Cantine, located across the street from El Burro\u00a0struggles to bring in guests and I hope the same fate is not shared with El Burro. It is worth a visit and know that you’ll get a delicious and stiff margarita from the bartender. My meal was really quite delicious. It isn’t TexMex, but it isn’t Fonda San Miguel either; it’s something in between.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,9],"tags":[321,222],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dining","category-entertainment","category-night-clubs","tag-el-burro","tag-sola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}