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Mi Ranchito #2 Mexican & Seafood Cuisine ~ Pueblo, Colorado


First visit: May 2023

It's time for the RJG's annual trip to New Mexico! Working, thrifting, and eating (not necessarily in that order) for an entire week. We started this tradition in 2013 and continued through 2016. For the next 3 years and 2021, we took shorter long weekend trips. Starting last year in 2022 we revived the concept to great success (mostly adding thrifting to the repertoire).

Any good trip to New Mexico involves a stop for breakfast in Colorado's own Pueblo, arguably our finest city in the state for RJG styled cuisine. Since I'd already been to B Street earlier in the year, I thought we'd try something new. That shouldn't be too hard on a Saturday morning right? Wrong. Our first location chosen was inexplicably closed. As in we really have no idea why. Was it closed for the Memorial Day weekend? Or closed for good? Who knows. The next selection lead us to a place where we read the hastily written note on the front door "to-go only". It's a conspiracy I tell ya!. That didn't put Mrs. RJG in a good mood, and she was leaning towards a bag of Fritos for breakfast. That's not going to work. One more try.

Mi Ranchito came up. Looks like a pretty nice restaurant rather than a breakfast slop house, but let's give it a go. Even though it didn't look like it from the outside, they were indeed open. Nice space. We were seated and promptly ordered chips and salsa. Ah - the homemade chips were excellent and the house salsa had a mild kick but was delicious. This put Mrs. RJG back in a good mood. She ordered the Huevos Rancheros with the hottest sauce, which turned out to be the green. I ordered a breakfast burrito with ham and Christmas sauce. The green was definitely the winning chili. Spicy with chunks of green chile. The red was more of an enchilada sauce, but still quite flavorful. And major points for including grilled ham steak instead of diced deli ham. You can actually taste the protein as it's balanced nicely against the eggs and sauces. This is only the second place we've encountered that does that, the other being Valentina's in Santa Fe, which we hope to visit later on this trip.

Overall, Mrs. RJG liked it better than B Street. I'm not willing to go that far, but we have a second breakfast alternative. And it might be really good for lunch and dinner too!

When one names a restaurant xxx #2, we presume there's a number #1. And there does exist a Mi Ranchito "the original". I cannot find any evidence they are linked and since they emphasize they are The Original, we'll presume these two are not on friendly terms, but who knows.

5/27/23 (new entry)

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