Las Manitas Gives Marriott The Go Ahead

The owners of Las Manitas have signed a deal that will allow White Lodging Services Corp., the developers of the Marriott project on Congress Ave, to build over part of the alley running behind the future Marriott site, 211 Congress Ave, where Las Manitas is currently located, and 227 Congress Ave, which the Perez sisters own. Las Manitas will be displaced from its current location, and the Perez sisters' representative declined to comment on whether or how much they had been paid to grant access to the alley.

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By Elisabeth Long in News on October 17, 2007 4:44 PM 0 Comments

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gryph

Apparently you need to eat elsewhere on occasion. Certainly, they were called something other than cheese enchiladas, but they were indeed enchiladas, and were indeed filled with cheese.

Cheese when melted, in a strange cataclysmic oddity, tends to release a bit of what is, per the common vernacular, grease. They were tasty, and if the chance arises I'll go back, but thus far haven't been so impressive as to inspire continuous adulation.

Or I could be lying just to rankle you.

The Cos

Would you like a pudding pop?

Chris Trew

I'm uncomfortable.

The Cos

They serve enchiladas rojos and enchiladas verdes and different enchiladas that you can get with cheese inside them as daily specials, but they don't serve nasty velveta-Chuy's-special-craptacular cheese enchiladas like you're talking about. And even with cheese, their rojo and verde and other enchiladas are not greasy.

The Cos

Las Manitas doesn't serve cheese enchiladas any day of the week. Some people...

Grape Ape

It was never about the food.

gryph

The cheese enchiladas. They were decent. And i've yet to meet a non-greasy cheese enchilada.

Mowank

Las Manitas is poo on a plate. And why couldn't this deal have taken place more than a year ago? Why does everyone have to get in a pissing contest first, and then make a deal second? Why not make the deal first? I can't wait for that hotel to be built.

abeecee

Who cares about the food? It's a landmark and now that part of Congress is going to be a skyscraping mess.

LoudMouth

What did you order? The only thing I've ever had that was greasy was a chile relleno.

gryph

I went for lunch today. I'm sure I'll have some fondly vague recollection of it next [year,two] when I'm having a craving for greasy mexican food downtown. And then go find a new yummy place to eat.