Dining in at De Cabeza/El Unico

This past weekend, the Missus told me that She wanted stuff from De Cabeza/El Unico. But the key point was, She wanted to actually eat at the restaurant and not do takeout. With prices of food and gas....and frankly, just about everything heading upwards, we don't seem to get around much these days. So this would be a nice treat for us. And we headed on over. The restaurant wasn't too busy and the Manager, the ever gracious Jesus was so happy to see us. He gave me a vigorous handshake and a hug!

Dining in meant we could diverge from our typical order, the Cabeza en su Jugo. Still to start things out we didn't stray too far and each had a bowl of the Consomé Con Carne ($4.50).

Man, with a squeeze of lime, this is so comforting. The flavor of divine-bovine, so beefy, with pungent onions and cilantro, and a bit of spice, this is always so good.

We got some Guacamole for the other items we ordered.

The Missus remembered enjoying the Lengua which we had on a previous takeout visit, so She ordered a Taco de Lengua ($4.00).

I had a bite and man was this so good. The beef tongue had been cooked so perfectly, it melted in your mouth. The beefiness was amazing; the salsa roja helped to but the richness and brought some heat. The tortillas had been headed on the comal and I believe that beef stock had been used. This was so much better dining in than doing takeout.

We had always enjoyed the Alambres and thought it would just do so well dining in; so we got it with Tripas and Maciza ($15). Imagine having both Beef Intestine and Head, along with bacon, bell peppers, onions, and queso, spread among four wonderful corn tortillas. Say no more!

Topped with some almost buttery guacamole; the Missus prefers the more acidic salsa verde, I prefer the more smoky red salsa, a squeeze of lime! 

Needless to say, this was a wonderful brunch. Strangely enough, I had thought we had dined in at De Cabeza, but after looking back thru my many posts on the place, when we last dined in at this location, it was still Aqui es Texcoco back in 2019. Of course, Aqui es Texcoco took over the spot of Al Pastor and this location became De Cabeza. We first did takeout during those dark days of Covid. And thru that all Jesus has been the manager, so perhaps that's why we thought we had actually dined in at De Cabeza!

We enjoyed this meal so much; we need to head on over here more often.

De Cabeza/El Único
1043 Broadway
Chula Vista, CA 91911
Current Hours:
Open Daily 8am - 9pm

Comments

[kat]

sounded like a great meal

[Kirk]

We enjoyed it Kat!