Rosie's Rosticeria, Santa Cruz

Yum!  One of my must stop sites if I'm anywhere near Watsonville or Santa Cruz.  Once I drove to Watsonville from Gilroy just for taste. Great chicken, corn and potatoes.  My mouth is watering.....

Will B. wrote:
>
> Someone who's generally pretty food-savvy just told me about this place
> yesterday, giving it a full-on rave review, especially the daily specials.
> I can't recall seeing it mentioned here.  Anyone tried it?  If so, what
> did you think?
>
> Will

From [email removed] Sun Sep 20 15:38:21 EDT 1998
Article: 33522 of ba.food

Will B. wrote:
>Someone who's generally pretty food-savvy just told me about this place
>yesterday, giving it a full-on rave review, especially the daily specials.
>I can't recall seeing it mentioned here.  Anyone tried it?  If so, what
>did you think?

It's been talked about here before.  I've never been to the Santa Cruz instantiation, but the Watsonville place is good.  Their main claim to fame is a very nice selection of custom-made salsas, ranging up to extremely hot (lots of habaneros).  Their chicken is nicely roasted, although I don't recall that the side dishes were anything special. Definitely cheap, family-oriented ambience (at least in Watsonville).

Overall, I'd go there any time.  But when I get down as far as the Watsonville area, the lure of Central Texan BBQ is hard to ignore.

Jon

Will B. wrote:

> Someone who's generally pretty food-savvy just told me about this place
> yesterday, giving it a full-on rave review, especially the daily specials.
> I can't recall seeing it mentioned here.  Anyone tried it?  If so, what
> did you think?

The SCruz location has MUCH more seafood, and the chefs there seem a little more creative than at the Watsonville location.  There's flavorful salsas even for us wimps (the tomato-ginger, the dark sweetish one, the barbeque salas, and occasional fruit salsas), vegetables treated right, and those stringy fried onion-with-sesames get to me every time.

Unless it happens to be a flavor combo that doesn't work for my tastebuds, the food never displeases.  I don't happen to like most peppers, fleshy or kernel (so sue me) as ingredients--but what they do with spinach is nearly sacramental.

It is to yum.  I go there at offtimes, to escape the crowds and because that's when I'm hungry.  The music is always lively, and you can never be certain what style you'll get any given day.

Marina

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From [email removed] Thu Dec 31 12:21:49 EST 1998
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