Le Baguette

You feel like your family here! My friends got gnocchi and I had nachos. It’s a melting pot of culture and food, and you can watch a telenovela while you eat! I’d do it again fo sho

I enjoy trying new restaurants, but I typically wait for someone else to try a place first and furnish me with preliminary findings. This practice has served me well, and is a major contributor to the lopsidedness of my Unilocal reviews (i.e., since I am pretty confident a place will be excellent before I eat there, most of my reviews are 4 or 5 stars).
Today I strayed from this path of wisdom. I ate at Le Baguette despite the facts that A) I knew no one who had sampled the establishment, and B) Unilocal was bereft of relevant rating or reviews.
The menu at Le Baguette is multinational, split into Mexican food, American food, and Italian food. I ordered the Honey Club Panini. It had Honey Butter on it. A lot. Not honey and butter, but that pre-​mixed Honey Butter™ that’s so sweet you instantly get cavities just by smelling it. The sandwich wasn’t bad, it was just odd. But it was very inexpensive, so I was not too distraught.
My dining companions seemed happy enough with their food, so perhaps mine was the outlier. The hostess also brought out free samples of their chocolate cake (the place is also a bakery) and their Jello (the place is also a jelloery). Those were certainly acceptable… they helped to get the sweetness of the Honey Butter™ out of my mouth.

If a stripmall were a body, Le Baguette is in the armpit. This is unfortunate because it’s a nice little place with a seemingly unfortunate location. Inside is a little run-​down, but it’s clean. There are only a couple of tables, so I don’t suppose they ever get very busy.
The menu was full of enticing possibilities cast into American, Mexican and Italian categories. It was hard to choose, so in the end I picked from the specials. The panini were listed, so I got an Italian panini and the wife took the daily special of chicken taqitos.
They started bringing food out to our large group pretty much right away, but it was little staggered. When it did get there, my panini had fries. Yum! It was a good sandwich, but the taquitos were really good. Mmm.
One of my chums got a milanesa that I didn’t get to taste, but it looked good and she liked it.
While we were there, we were also given samples of jello and chocolate cake. The jello was … jello. The cake was moist and good.
It’s a ways for me to get there from work, but I’d not be opposed to going again sometime.