Frontera Bar & Grill at Jaya One

It's been quite a while since anything food related came onto this blog. It doesn't mean I haven't been eating out, but definitely less than before the babies came along. Nowadays distance and baby-friendliness become great concerns in dining out.

Yesterday night was an exception as Mom offered to take care of JL & JY while we take a break.

Jaya One being a hitherto relatively unexplored place (I'd only been there once for a quick lunch at Wendy's) and being relatively nearby, it wasn't difficult to decide to check out what else they had to offer.

Brussels Beer Cafe was packed solid last night with some event going on. Looking around the rest of the outlets were fairly empty. But then it was a Thursday night, so maybe these places do most of their business during lunch and weekends.

To cut a long story short, settled on Frontera Bar & Grill as somehow Tex Mex food sounded very appetising yesterday, and also I was eager to try Tex Mex stuff outside of the ubiquitous Chili's/Fridays/Las Carretas types.

The place was quite sparsely decorated, but good enough, with small cacti on the tables and lots of red, green and white! They also had a pinata hanging around, very Mexican methinks...

Ordered the taquitos de pollo, beef enchilada, beef chimichanga, and the Horny (???) Margarita and a beer to wash it down.

Wifey's impression at the end of the dinner sort of captured the overall feel of the food. She mentioned that it all looked rather homemade, both in terms of presentation and taste. In this case I'd say it's more complimentary than otherwise.

Won't go into details (and no pics to boot) but suffice to say that it all tasted good, and portions were adequate. The meat in both the chimichanga and enchilada deserves special mention in that it was tender, flavorful and plentiful. The chimichanga was thankfully not swimming in some sauce, which makes the skin go soggy and unappetising.

The bill came to RM115, which is not exactly cheap, but right in line with other Tex Mex joints. Part of the blame has to go to the margarita which costs RM23, but you do get what you paid for as it's really strong! Don't let the size of the glass fool you...