Chevy's Fresh Mex, Arlington, VA

The other day I met up with Edward, Ryan, and Jeff to do a little shopping in Virginia. We ended up getting hungry and popped into the first place to which neither Jeff nor Ryan objected, which was Chevy's Fresh Mex, a sort of Mexican place which I believe is a small national franchise.

The food there really isn't too bad for Mexican in this part of the country (I've still never found a Mexican, Tex-Mex, or NM Mex place around here I like). They are, of course, heavy on the American-food-in-the-Mexican-theme things, but those foods can be edible and enjoyable for what they are, so long as one isn't so anal as to insist upon truly authentic Mexican food items.

This is a picture of Edward sucking down a watermelon margarita. He and Ryan seemed to like it.

Most of us ate light. Jeff had a bowl of chicken tortilla soup. I had a small chopped salad. Edward just drank. Ryan, on the other hand, chose to enjoy the full array of culinary offerings at Chevy's. He ordered the "Taste of Chevys," an enormous platter with beef and chicken enchiladas, a chicken tamale, a taco, beans, Mexican rice, and sweet corn tomalito (a sort of chopped corn relish). This is a platter which could feed two hearty eaters or three normal eaters. Then for dessert he had the Chiquita Sundae, an interesting sweet cinnamon "boat" (kind of like a small taco salad shell) filled with chocolate ice cream, chocolate sauce, cajeta sauce, and huge mounds of whipped cream.