La Indita

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          Today I am reviewing a Mexican restaurant called La Indita. This restaurant is right outside the modern street car stop at 4th and 4th/5th. It's easy to get there.  We took the street car all the way from the University area. It was pretty cool to ride on the street car!
          La Indita has a friendly, homey environment. There was a giant painting on the wall. It was very well done. They did have a little roof problem. I ordered two green corn tamales. They were out of the green corn, which is seasonal, so I settled for the chicken tamales instead. They also had limeade instead of lemonade, which was a little sour, but fine other than that. They also brought out chips and salsa while we waited for our food. The salsa is a little spicy (for kids) there.

Painting on the wall

          My tamales came and were way more spicy than I expected. You might try ordering your meal mild, if possible. Although spicy, the chicken tamales were quite good. It came with rice and beans, which helped when I took too big of a bite of the spicy tamales.
          Overall I would rate this restaurant 8/10 cacti. Needs a bit of work on the spiciness (to me, maybe you like spicy, I wouldn't know). They have their own web page, check it out here: https://lainditarestauranttucson.com/about. Questions? Email me here at: ethanhinz@gmail.com. 
         

The Cookie Cabin

    Hello, everyone. First off I would like to apologize for not posting for so long. But let’s get right to the review.

This week I went up to Mt. Lemmon for some sight seeing. We went up and had lunch at The Cookie Cabin. The Cookie (that’s what I’m going to call it for short) is mainly focused on dessert, but offer pizzas too. There’s an inside area with a fireplace, an upstairs area, but we chose the outside patio. We shared a 12’ pizza with 3 people. You can get just single slices, or share a 16’ pizza as well. 

Outside seating area.

    There are many toppings for the pizzas there. We just got cheese, but you can get pepperoni or veggies. They will do half and half with the toppings, if you ask. I would suggest that you don’t get too much for your meal, because you’re going to want dessert!    

    The Cookie has many desserts, including a giant cookie, a bowl of ice cream, and both combined. We got one chocolate chip cookie to share, and it normally comes with six scoops of ice cream, but we only got three (for three people). We also got whipped cream and caramel sauce on top. You can choose from lots of syrups and other toppings like sprinkles. The cookie plus toppings was huge!! With three people, we still didn’t manage to finish the cookie. The cookie was moist and thick, almost like a pie, with a crisp outer crust, and the ice cream was a rich vanilla.

Cookie with ice cream dessert.

    I would suggest this restaurant very much, even though it is a long drive with beautiful sights. We stopped at Seven Cataracts, which is flowing this time of year, as well as Windy Point. Go all the way to the end of the Mt. Lemmon road for this restaurant, before the Marshall Gulch Trail. The address is: 12781 North Sabino Canyon Parkway, Summerhaven. I gave this restaurant a high 9/10 cacti. Questions? Email me at: ethanhinz@gmail.com