{"id":612,"date":"2009-08-15T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travway.net\/?p=612"},"modified":"2009-08-15T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T13:10:00","slug":"puerto-vallarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/2009\/08\/15\/puerto-vallarta\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Vallarta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>Puerto Vallarta<br \/>2800 Scottsville Road<br \/>Bowling Green, KY 42104<br \/>(270) 782-6264<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dish:<\/strong> <br \/>Chips and Salsa (Appetizer &#8211; Free)<br \/>Combo 8 (Taco, Burrito, Rice\/Beans)<br \/>Diet Cokes<br \/>$8.65 (Tax and tip included)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade:<\/strong> 1 Fork<\/p>\n<p>One of the few restaurants that I went to while visiting our corporate offices in Bowling Green.  My host (at the office) pretty much invited me here saying it was one of the better Mexican&#8217;s around.  It might have been, but I did not want to look out of place ordering something that I normally would so I opted for the business casual combo meal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ambiance:<\/strong> When you think of Puerto Vallarta, you should be thinking of the tropical paradise that is situated on the West Pacific in Mexico.  Now I could break into a Shawshank Redemption moment here but I won&#8217;t, however I did not get the feeling that this was a tropical paradise.  To their defense it is hard to accomplish something of that feel when you are in a strip mall.  Anyway, standard Mexican decorations were abundant, and thankfully the air conditioning was working because it was a scorcher outside!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Menu\/Price:<\/strong> Pretty inexpensive from what I saw, very few things were over the $10 mark.  However I think they have a different menu for lunch and dinner, and I was on the lunch menu.  I would be surprised though if the dinner menu would be lower than what I would consider to be the norm, given that the area Bowling Green is in has a lower cost of living that where we live in Iowa.  The choices were plenty and typical for a Mexican restaurant as this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meal:<\/strong> Good thing they had chips and salsa because the size of my meal just did not do it for me.  Perhaps that is why it was really inexpensive, or maybe I was just really hungry.  Either way the chips and salsa really filled that void.  The combo itself was pretty basic, nothing to exciting.  The taco was good enough that I wished I had ordered the combo that came with three tacos.  The burrito was actually a cheese and meat enchilada, or at least what I would call an enchilada.  Either way it was decent.  The rice was cooked, but cooked to a point that they were almost dehydrated again.  The refried beans were good as chip dip, but a bit too runny to eat with a fork.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Service:<\/strong> No real problems here, drinks and food came promptly.  When I asked for a receipt (for corporate reimbursement) I got a weird look from the guy running the cash register.  Another came up and wrote on a small piece of paper the date and amount (pre-tip) with his signature on the Manager Signature line. It was a bit awkward, but not really helpful for my uses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall:<\/strong> Maybe I am being a bit unfair here, but I went with the 1 Fork middle of the road rating because they might actually be better than I thought, but given the circumstances I did not feel comfortable exploring the menu as I normally would.  If I make it back to Bowling Green, I&#8217;ll try this place again in the evening and perhaps they will get the 1 Fork, 1 Spoon grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address:Puerto Vallarta2800 Scottsville RoadBowling Green, KY 42104(270) 782-6264 The Dish: Chips and Salsa (Appetizer &#8211; Free)Combo 8 (Taco, Burrito, Rice\/Beans)Diet Cokes$8.65 (Tax and tip included) Grade: 1 Fork One of the few restaurants that I went to while visiting our corporate offices in Bowling Green. My host (at the office) pretty much invited me here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-fork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}