My quick tabulation found some 90 different dishes listed-and many of those, such as combo plates, have numerous variations- and that doesn’t even include side dishes or desserts. As I mentioned, I find the Red Iguana menus daunting. Red Iguana Mexican Restaurants: Masters of Mole At Red Iguana, you don’t feel like you’re eating in a culinary shrine it feels a lot more like eating at home. But, maybe that’s exactly the attraction. No one pumped a million bucks into high falutin’ design. Maybe the Red Iguana décor is an attraction, but I doubt it. If I could open a restaurant, I’d want to hire 10 Omars to work in it. And yet, while efficiency is critical with the sort of crowds Red Iguana attracts, I’ve never felt rushed there - even with 20 or 30 folks in waiting, all lusting after my table. The staff at the Red Iguana restaurants - from owner Lucy Cardenas to waiters and waitresses like Omar, Sara and Michael - are simultaneously friendly, professional and efficient. Both ended their correspondence with nearly identical suggestions for the offending restaurants: “They should hire some servers from the Red Iguana.” Just last week I received two e-mails from different City Weekly readers complaining about lousy service they’d received at other restaurants in town. So I ask, what is it about Red Iguana that makes it so damned popular? And indeed, there is a third Red Iguana slated to open in the City Creek Center food court in March. I’m convinced that if the Cardenas family-owners of the Red Iguanas - built a half-dozen additional Red Iguana restaurants, they’d still be mobbed. On a Monday and a Wednesday, there were 45-minute delays for dinner seating. on a recent Friday, there was a half-hour wait to be seated for lunch at the new Red Iguana 2. However, the opening of Red Iguana 2 seems to have awakened dormant Red Iguana lovers, like myself, who too-rarely visited the restaurant because of those aforementioned wait times. The idea, in part, was to take some of the pressure off of the original Red Iguana and, in theory, help diffuse the lengthy table waits. So, a second Red Iguana should at least help alleviate the first problem, right? Well, not so fast, bucko.Ī second Red Iguana, Red Iguana 2, opened last month. The restaurant was too small and the menu was too big.
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