El Rancho Hotel Drops Chile Rellenos From Menu

Above, El Rancho's chile rellenos last April. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Yesterday evening, after picking up Larry Lucier from his physical therapy session, he, Russell Azbill and I headed over to the El Rancho Hotel & Motel for dinner. It had been a few weeks since we were last there.

The menu at the restaurant was unchanged, but when I ordered the chile rellenos (Russell was going to order them too), we were told that they were dropped from the menu, despite them still being listed. The waitress said the restaurant manager decided that they weren't selling enough. 

I ended up getting chicken enchiladas. 

As Larry pointed out, chile rellenos should be considered basic food items along with enchiladas, tacos and burritos at Mexican restaurants, which is what the El Rancho restaurant is. We protested the change, in a humorous way, but we got our point across. It was a dumb move on the restaurant manager's part. They'd sell more if they weren't listed in the back page of the menu.

Larry tried to flag over the restaurant manager several times, but he didn't respond.

Their rellenos, in my opinion, were the best in town. It looks like we'll have to find another place for dinner who has decent chile rellenos.