Restaurant Review: Oliva's Kitchen

Looking for some good authentic Mexican food? Then you might want to try Oliva’s Kitchen: Mexican Restaurant. This authentic Mexican restaurant has some of the best and most filling foods around. But it’s not your typical Mexican restaurant. You’re not going to find your normal amount of rice and beans here. The menu is instead filled with more bready, meat-filled, vegetable dishes. It’s also almost impossible to find something on the menu that won’t fill and average person. The atmosphere was very relaxed and enjoyable. A various mix of Mexican/Spanish and American music filled the background. The relaxed environment encouraged much kicked-back conversation and joking. The service is friendly, halfway bilingual (quite literally, only some of them are bilingual), and very attentive. You almost never haft to worry about waiting to be waited on. The waiters check in enough to keep you happy and not so much that they annoy you. Also, the waiters that are bilingual are very tolerant as they are willing to work with us English speakers while we attempt to practice our Spanish. The staff at Oliva’s also does very well with large groups. Señora Brutlag’s Spanish 2 and 3 classes went together, creating a crowd of around 20. Even with this many people and more ordering in both Spanish and English we didn’t even have one order wrong, from what I heard anyway. Besides the atmosphere and service the food was also exquisite. Most everyone had high complements about the food, which ranged from quesadillas to burritos to carne asado and soup. Many thanks were given to the cooks as we were leaving. While we we’re at Oliva’s a student convinced about a third of the group to order horchadas, or Spanish rice milk. Most of them decided that the drink was pretty good though strange and quite something else at first sip. My opinion was that it was drinkable but slightly upsetting to the stomach and taste buds, and not worth ordering again. Overall Oliva’s Kitchen provided an amazing place to dine. Their service is great, their atmosphere relaxed, and their food exquisite. So whether you want to go chill with friends and good food or need something filling after a days work, Oliva’s Kitchen is the place to go.