Ok, so if you're browsing all the glowing reviews for Taqueria Nueve let me tell you why this one should come a cut above the rest. We have eaten there several times, and after seeing all the reviews didn't feel it necessary to write one of our own. Until now: I had no idea, but they are VERY open to special requests and customization of their menu. If you look at the top of Ala Carte it features a pork chop doused in their incredible Mole sauce and resting below that is the wonderful Enchiladas. Here was my dinner conundrum: Do I have the enchiladas or the Mole Carnitas? My waitress, who's brilliant by the way, was there to inform me that I could have both! I put together seemingly on a whim the mole sauce over Enchilada combined with the Crispy Wild Boar off the Tacos menu. What do we have now? Enchiladas Nirvana! Heaven sent baby! It was the best single dish I have had in months and I am died to the core Portland Foodie. Go now, and invent something at Taqueria Nueve! Alright, I admit, the chef on the other end did his/her part to a masterful degree, I wish I could have thanked them in person. The dish arrived with a very apparent creativity and warmth in serving something uniquely blended from their typical fair. . My wife caught such a viscous case of food envy, I think it would've cost me my marital bliss had I not given up the last 1/3 of my meal in exchange for her Carne Asada. Seriously, go get crazy with it, I'm taking anybody who'll listen to dinner with me here from now on. Viva La Taqueria!
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