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Last night, my sister and I ate here: http://www.isalita.com/

Last night, my sister and I ate here: http://www.isalita.com/ and had dessert here: http://www.blankslatecreamery.com/ Isalita It's not inauthentic. #doublenegativesftw What it really is is a so-called small plates place. At least they don't try to call it tapas. Pet peeve: everything on a small plate is not a tapa, ok? Anyway, we had the traditional guacamole, the duck flautas, the cauliflower tacos, and the barbacoa tacos. I also had an horchata. The guacamole is delicious, gets an A. The chips were fresh, not greasy, and just enough salt so you knew it was there. They were very, very good flour tortilla chips. The flautas were ok, unless you got some of the green sauce that was minimally drizzled on the plate; then they were amazing. Presumably this is the "poblano avocado sauce", although it neither looked, nor tasted like either of those things. WIthout that sauce, they were a B-, with it, an A. In fact, we both would have just eaten that sauce by itself. There...