Tres Leches

So we go to our anniversary dinner last night at Fonda San Miguel here in Austin. We had never been there and we had a great time. The atmosphere was great, we got a table right away and our waiter was cool. Since the restaurant is labeled as "interior Mexican food" we asked our server (who was Asian) what the difference between "interior Mexican" and the usual Tex-Mex. I mean, we really didn't know and when I have asked people in the past I never got a great answer. We figured the server must know the answer. Well, he looked a little puzzled and then rambled an answer that made us laugh the entire night and made the experience one we will never forget. His answer started with "Well, you know at Tex-Mex they like the really runny, watery queso? We use real cheese". Holy crap, that is the greatest answer to a question I have ever heard. So we get to sit in a nicer restaurant with expensive wines and menus because they make queso with real cheese here? We laughed about that all night and made jokes off it all the way home. To his credit, the waiter was cool and he also said some stuff like "interior" is healthier ... but he really seemed to struggle with the answer. I think he needs to work on it.

The dinner and drinks were great, but the tres leches cake was to die for (another difference in interior Mexican and TexMex is the cake is dos-leches at TexMex restaurants ... LOL). Outstanding. I am so glad we stayed for desert.