Tacos Y Mariscos 7 Oceanos is a Mexican Restaurant and Bar located in Glendale on the Phoenix Boarder. English is the second language here but the menu is pretty easy with the pictures to figure out. This isn’t a fancy place but is colorful and seems clean.

Apon arriving we were greeted with menus and a complimentary basket of chips and tangy salsa with just the right amount of fresh cilantro.

Our server apologized to us for not specking much English but she did alright. We ordered and in reasonable time our platters arriving with steaming hot tortillas.

I got the pescado a la diablo ($12.99). They gave me a good portion of mild white fish that was covered in a tangy spicy sauce. There was also refried beans, rice and a little vegetable and pico garnish.

My husband had the same plate with shrimp (camarones a la diablo $13.99)

Here is most of the menu. (I forgot the shellfish menu)

You pay at the register when you are ready.

Worth a try if you are in the area.

They are on Facebook and the do have a website that matches name and address but the menu is different….maybe not set up correctly as of yet.

www.elmejortacosymariscos.com

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*****UPDATE***NOW CLOSED***Vaigai Indian Restaurant is located in north Glendale Arizona in a shopping center that is anchored by a Walmart. According to their Facebook page they serve a lunch buffet on Thursdays and Fridays and on Saturday and Sundays they offer a special banana leaf lunch that is served to you and also is unlimited. For dinner they serve a full menu. All the tables are set with pitchers of ice water, silverware and extra napkins.

We got here early because this restaurant tends to fill up fast.

There are many pans to try. I didn’t try everything but I did try many of the dishes.

I don’t recall if I ever had semiya kichade before but this was incredibly delicious. It’s full of many flavors and heat…it’s like pure mushy melty goodness in your mouth.

Cabbage Poriyal was another one of my favorites. It’s screaming with flavors and heat. Cabbage never was this exciting before.

Plantain Poriyal – It’s very similar to some sort of seasoned potato dish.

They had many chicken dishes today. Each one that I tried was very flavorful and moist. Most were spicy hot! The chicken dishes that I noticed today were Chili Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Chicken Curry, Some sort of Chunk Chicken, Tandoori Chicken, Chicken Biryani and Thalapakatti Chicken Biryani. For me they all were great but Chicken Tikka Masala really stood out. It had more layers of flavors and also heat that I never tasted before from other chicken tikka masalas I’ve tried.

The other non-vegetarian dishes were goat curry and fish curry.

The fresh made bread….(not sure if this is a naan bread) was different too. It was very light and very tender. Some other pans were filled with Mirchi Ka Salan (curried peppers YUMMY!), Channg Masala (chickpeas in tomato sauce), Sabar and Rasam (vegetable lentil soup and curried tomato starter), Paneer Butter Masala (cheese dish), Egg Masala (hard boiled eggs in spicy tomato sauce), Uttapam (pancake) and six desserts.

When you’re done you go to the cashier and pay. My husband said all this food that we enjoyed was only $12.00 a person.

Last time we had the weekend Banana Leaf Special Lunch. ($12.99 vegetarian and $14.99 subject to change)

It was delicious! It’s like they bring a buffet to you.

****UPDATE***NOW CLOSED****FOR BUSINESS****

Certainly Worth a Fork!

www.VaiGaiAZ.com

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******UPDATE******Torn down…was suppose to move down the road ******The Pacific Seafood Buffet has two locations. One in Chandler and the one I went to in Glendale Arizona that borders Peoria just by P83. The Pacific Buffet is an all you can eat restaurant. This restaurant has been here in Glendale since around October 2010. They offer TWO HUNDRED items of appetizers, soups, sushi, sashimi, assorted shellfish, a Mongolian BBQ, various entrees, ice creams, cakes and other pastries Monday – Friday for $11.88. The Pacific Seafood Buffet is open everyday for lunch and dinner. They are even open on all major holidays and do offer holiday specials.

You walk in and it seems like a fancy place with a big high ceiling and lots of granite lined buffet tables.

The sushi table looks like a boat.

Then we get seated and the dining room is more casual.

Soon someone greets us, takes our beverage order and we are off to the buffet.

There is so much to try…what to pick?

The ginger scallion fish on the right was the best fish I tried here today. Mushrooms looked good…I forgot to try them (oh well) tried the green beans…they were ok.

Lots of assorted fried foods here…and the chicken skewers looked a little dry so I moved on.

Salmon is never good from any buffet. it appears to be very over cooked today. I know I wouldn’t enjoy this so I moved on.

Apple strudel, sliced sausage and something that looks very beefy…?

I take my first plate.

The best fish I tried here is the white fleshed fish at 6:00 on my plate. It’s in a ginger scallion broth and is light and flaky. green beans are good. Most of the sushi is not for my taste. I think it’s less desirable than supermarket sushi and they all are made with too much rice. The best of the bunch surprisingly is the spicy tuna. The mackerel at around 2:00 on the plate is slightly over cooked but ok. The other best thing on the plate is the eggplant with milld Asian flavors next to the mackerel. If I could redo and make this plate again it would only contain the ginger scallion fish, the greens beans and the eggplant.

Moving on.

Did better with plate #2. Nothing was bad with plate #2 but a few things could use more flavor. The best bite of this plate was The Korean Chicken at around 10:00 on this plate. It was a sliced juicy chicken thigh with tasty seasoning. It might have been the best thing I ate here. My husband took two pieces of the Korean Chicken and one was good like mine and the other one was dried up……(at a buffet things often go from ok to dried up..) If I could redo this plate I would take more Korean Chicken, more greens, the bun that looks like a peach stuffed with sweet beans and the fried sesame ball. The pepper chicken and the black pepper chicken were both ok (tender and reasonably fresh made) but on the bland side.

My husband tried a fish ball.

I’m not sure why it made him scream….He said I wouldn’t like it so I didn’t give it a try.

My husband tried some things that I didn’t try. A few of the things he took were dried out. I did notice that the majority of beef items did look dry to me today.

He took another plate after this and got butterflied fried shrimp that just came out of the kitchen that he liked. He said they were the best thing he tried here today.

We shared some desserts.

It looks a little scary but some of it is ok. The ice creams and sherbets were hard as rocks so it was impossible to get a scoop of any of them but my husband managed to scrape out some orange sherbet. Best of the plates might be the lemon cake or the fried plain Chinese doughnut?

For $11.88 it was an interesting adventure. A few things were good and the rest was either ok or inedible. I was overly full and that was my meal for the day. Ten years ago it seemed like there was an Asian Buffet on every corner but most of them are gone now in this area.

Our server was friendly and attentive. She cleared plates quickly and presented the bill at the perfect time.

That was my trip to Pacific Seafood Buffet in Glendale.

*******UPDATE****was torn down. The website said that they were to relocate two miles down the road. Construction was almost done and they were expected to open in October. Don’t know if they will move forward?*********

www.PacificSeafoodBuffet.com

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Fe La Cubana is a small hole-in-the-wall casual Cuban Cafeteria style restaurant located in a rougher area of Glendale. The GPS gets a little screwy here and brings you to the newer side of the shopping center….Fe La Cubana is located behind where the GPS sends you.

I note that this is NOT A FANCY PLACE…and the Latin Music is a little loud. Remember that you are only here to try the food.

This is basically the whole dining room.

You step in and you will see a menu on the wall but I’m not certain if the menu is used.

There is also a pizza menu on the wall but I don’t think they make pizzas here?

The owner wearing a Fe La Cubana Shirt smiles but doesn’t speak English. A youthful looking girl that might be his daughter speaks some English.

We see her here behind the buffet pans and ask what they are serving today.

There are about seven different offerings today three were beef and four were pork. She said that you could have what you pick with either white rice or black beans.

I went with Ropa Vieja with rice.

It’s not much to look at but it taste FORKING GREAT! OMG! It’s delicious! It’s so tender and so flavorful. It’s juicy tender tasty perfection! WOW what a great surprise.

My husband also gets Ropa Vieja but adds on an oxtail and a pota je de garbanzo (pork chick pea soup).

Oxtails are too succulent for me but I did try the sauce from the oxtail. WOW! a BOMBSHELL of flavors with some acidity, brininess and a small amount of gentle heat. It’s incredibly developed with flavors. IT FORKING SCRUMPTIOUS! Crazy CRAZY crazy good!

I heard that the soup is just as great!

Limited selection but – WOW really great food.

When you are ready to pay you wait by the register. We didn’t get a receipt so I don’t know what the individual pricing was but the total for 2 ropa viejas, 1 oxtail, 1 soup and a bottled water came to a total of $32.00.

Parking is easy because there is a lot but you might not be coming from far because there isn’t a restroom.

I haven’t found a website for Fe La Cubana but they are on Facebook.

Fe La Cubana is Worth a Fork!

REALLY FORKING DELICIOUS FOOD!