La Condesa- Jalapeno filet

I have frequented La Condessa many times as it's in my neighborhood, but I'll admit, mainly for the gold margaritas and steak tacos. But, after reading some reviews on this board, I have decided to go a bit more adventurous on my ordering and look at the menu in a slightly different way.
I hit the jackpot on Friday night. I decided on the Filete Arriero. The menu describes it as 8 oz steak covered with arriero sauce, lemon, garlic and jalapeno. Now anything that comes with lemon and garlic, I'm almost assuredly going to like. I was expecting a thick filet with a few jalapenos, but what I got was a pounded down piece of tender meat covered in bright green fresh jalapenos, and I mean covered. Until I can figure out how to add the picture directly here is a not so good picture. It was absolutely delicious.
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The other hit I always order is queso fundido con chorizo. The homeade tortillas make this so good. I always take the cheese home so we can make omelets the next morning.
The one miss here is the salsa, as it served warm, it just doesn't do anything for me when it's served warm. I wish they had a cold version.



La Condesa
1008 N Ashland

Thanks for the review. La Condesa is up the street from me, but admittedly, I never really remember it when going somewhere Mexican. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

As an aside, the area between Division/Chicago and Racine/Damen has really developed into a little UN of Latino food. There's Taco Veloz, the La Pasaditas, La Condesa, among many others, for Mexico, Rudy's Taste for what I'd call Pan-Latino (although I think they dub it as Costa Rican), Buenas Aires Forever and Tango Cafe for Argentine, Habana Libre for Cuban and Cafe Central for Puerto Rican.

I used to go to La Condesa fairly regularly. First learned about it when at the Mexican Museum I asked for a recommendation - tho I had driven by it many times, it never quite registered in that strange lot.

It is good and reliable, but never terribly exciting. Over time I did tend to favor their different seafood dishes, but it has been a while so that may not apply.