Fosil Bar

In general, Fosil Bar presents simple dishes: undressed, shredded white meat in the enchiladas, a basic combination of beef, onion and mellow white cheese filling tacos, grilled beef, onions and sauce making up carne asada. Quesadilla options include either cheese or cheese and ham. The restaurant is adept at authentic, home-style Mexican cooking, but falters when it comes to hybrid Tex-Mex creations.

Those nostalgic for cheap diners lining dusty Southwestern roadsides will appreciate the laminated menus that double as placemats. The outright chaos has its charms too, I guess.

But nothing else about Fosil Bar is worth pondering.

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I’m not even a soup person, and I could just tell from the scent rising from the thick clay bowl, the way the cheese floated casually and alluringly in the center, and the soft flour tortilla folded against the inside, that this was going to be good. Each spoonful delivered different combinations of cheese, onions, corn, and, my favorite part, pieces of fried corn tortilla soaked with the vigorous flavor yet with a slight crunch still holding on for life. I gave the verbal verdict to my companion, and made him taste Fosil’s tortilla soup. His reaction was the same.

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