I needed a little, ok a lot of stress relief yesterday.... thankfully I was meeting up with my friend Blondie for dinner!! I decided to take her to my favorite little mexican place in south Omaha - El Alamo :) I'm not sure of the exact address but it's between L & Q on 24th street on the east side. For us celiac's - authentic mexican is an easy cuisine to navigate and just verify: corn chips and corn tortillas!
I understand this isn't the best pic but I still really like it.... it's more getting the essence of the neighborhood...ok it's just a bad pic.
I ordered the Steak a la Mexicana which is sort of like steak fajitas and El Alamo's has the most amazing corn tortillas (not pictured because I ate them ALL before I remembered I was going to take a pic) which are made next door at Nina's. They are probably the best corn tortillas I've ever eaten - soft and fluffy, the complete opposite of the ones at the grocery store. The whole dish only comes out with three tortillas (you can ask for more) but I was trying to utilize a little self control last night and stuck to my initial three. I still had quite a bit of stuffing left so I took them to-go for dinner this evening and the waitress gave me a few extra tortillas. They did NOT make it to dinner (I ate them for breakfast).
Blondie and I stopped by this quaint little establishment next door on our way out...Quite an odd collection of things - large outdoor pottery, religious statues, blown glass items, tapestries, and pinatas of course! I like how the store is decorated to give that feeling of being outside while inside :)
We were sad the dress store was closed and decided to make a point to come back to try on Quinceanera dresses some Saturday afternoon just to be silly. We headed to Mr. Toad's in the old market to have a drink or two and round out the evening with some much needed venting about life. Blondie is a new friend but I'm very happy to have met her and am loving getting to know her - she is wonderful!
-Justine
