- 6527 S. Cedar Street
- Lansing, MI 48911
- (517) 272-4600
- No Known Website
- Menu
Aldaco's Authentic Mexican Restaurant on South Cedar Street in Lansing.
Last night, I was really craving tacos. We were really close to making a Taco Bell run at midnight, but decided it was a bad idea. The craving never really went away. When J suggested going out for dinner, I suggested that Mexican place where Cedar meets Pennsylvania that has stared us in the face since we moved here almost a year ago.
Aldaco’s is right on the corner of Cedar Street where it intersect with Pennsylvania Avenue. It sits between the White Castle the empty end of a strip mall that used to house a Hollywood Video. The building is small, but the parking lot is always full. There’s an entrance on both Pennsylvania and Cedar Street. We were coming from the Pennsylvania side, so we used that entrance then drove around the front to the parking lot.
Inside we were met by a hostess. She grabbed a couple menus and asked if we were going to order the buffet or order from the menu. J said menu and I just went along with it. After passing the buffet, which is right near the entrance, I should have changed my mind but I didn’t. The buffet was filled with taco shells, tortillas, and fillings as well as tacquitos, burritos, rice, beans and even some desserts.
There are two dining rooms in Aldaco’s. We were taken to the one on the right side of the space which is where most everyone else was. We were shown to a booth along the inside wall near the bathrooms in the back. We started looking over the menus. It wasn’t long before we decided, but we still had not seen a waitress. There was a man and a woman waitressing. We think we were actually at the woman’s table, but after quite a while, the man finally came over and took our order. When the woman came over a minute later, I told her our order had already taken the order. I heard him say something to the woman about how long she let us sit there, so he took the table. Read the rest of this entry »
This coming Tuesday is Fat Tuesday….and everyone knows what that means! Paczki’s! Alright, I’ll admit it. Up until about a year ago, I had never heard of a paczki. J grew up on the south side of Chicago which has a fairly large Polish population, so the Fat Tuesday treat was something she grew up with. Last year on the Monday before Lent, J and I took my mom to Chicago and while we were eating lunch downtown, J started talking about paczki’s. My mom likes sweets so we found a Polish bakery on the north side of town and brought home a dozen. This past weekend, I was at a mega mart with my mom and grandma when I saw a box of paczki’s….of course, we had to buy them.
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