Chopbiscuit on the road dining review: Fridas Taqueria and Grill Stowe, VT

Shredded cabbage goes great with shredded carrots and mayonnaise.

Mexican and Vermont - like peas in a pod

Welcome to another delightful Chopbiscuit inspection of some of the USA's most frequented saloons, dining halls and high end bistro's. At least one of your humble contributors is on the road virtually every week and luckily have the opportunity to dine at some of the finest institutions and loathsome watering holes known to man. Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, some deity would permit us to be pirates and savage our nutriment.

I like eating. It fascinates me. I sit and look at the food for hours. I often eat while laying down in my hotel room with a bib in my lap and my outlook calendar open. Eating is my tweeting, except it's much cooler. Food is often made into the celebrity of carnage, which makes us appear to be pompous and scarce in regards to the act of eating itself. You eat because you fuel. I eat because I'm hungry. I eat because it's my job. I go out to these establishments to consume their lineups.

I then judge it.

Frida's Taqueria & Grill
128 Main St
Stowe, VT 05672
(802) 253-0333

Want a little Mexican right in the whitest town in America? Located in the historic Butler House in the heart of the village of Stowe, Vermont. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week, Rita's is a popular dining destination for locals and visitors alike.

What we absorbed

The four of us all started out with the traditional house margarita-tequila, triple sec and lime juice. * I always recommend salt. Do it! For the appetizer's we got the obvious, tableside guacamole and chips. We also ordered Mexican calamares that were pan seared Rhode Island squid with a guajillo chili, pineapple, pumpkinseed sauce. This dish, obviously infuenced by some Fall Harvest flavors.

I ordered the tres tacos which allowed you to choose any three tacos, served with beans and a creative cabbage slaw. The tres tacos I chose were:

Pescado-crisp fried Atlantic cod with cabbage slaw and a roasted jalapeno shallot sauce

Carnitas-slow roasted pork with salsa verde and iceberg lettuce and salsa verde

Carne asada-marinated grilled skirt steak with charred onions and avocado crema

I liked all three although the tortilla's were a little on the damp side.

The rest of the menu had an affluent Mexican highbrow feel with a spring menu flavor profile. If you like basic traditional Mexican, you might want to stay away. The Taqueria had a quaint, village feel and friendly setting. If you're in a mood for a decent margarita and chips, I definitely recommend a stop.

What do I know.....

There are some days you just have to ask yourself... what do I really know? Those that know me well know that I sometimes say that I'm going to write a book and the title is Life and other shit I know nothing about... But, this is what I think I know! If you do the same things and expect different results you are insane. The best thing that can happen right now is that people say enough is enough. I no longer chose to fill my body with pesticides, or other processed foods so you can line your pockets. 

I chose to support the folks that live life holistically and give more than they take. Consumers set the bench mark of what is acceptable and what is not. I'll say that one again because it's that easy. Consumers set the bench mark of what is acceptable and what is not. We get the wrong order at the local fast food joint, what do you do? You march inside and get what you paid for and maybe then some.  I suppose it depends on your level at the art of the conversation! 

So why do we freeze when it comes to our health our childrens health, the education of our children (and include is in on the education also) and the gas prices. I'm no MBA and let's face it - I thought MBA stood for Mountain Bikers Association.  But I know this - be kind and that if we treat people as they are, we make them worse so treat people, especially the ones you call your family, neighbors, friends & dude I work with.   

We help them become what they are capable of becoming. Choose with your money, your fork, and and choices that you make.  It should be fair to say that if we got ourselves into this mess we can get ourselves out of it. Or, as my Uncle Gerald use to say "You can get Happy in the Same shoes you got mad in!" 

Choose Wisely.