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Restaurant: Rudy’s Mexican Food
Where: 602 S. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia
Phone: (626) 303-3393
Reservations: Accepted, not required
Cocktails: Full cocktail service
Service: Full table service
Atmosphere: Casual
Outdoor Dining: Yes
Credit Cards: MC, AMEX, Visa, Discover,
Diner’s Club, Debit Cards
Kid’s Menu: Yes
Senior Discount: No
Hours: Open Daily at 9am, Sat./Sun. 8am
Food to Go: Yes
Catering Menu: Yes
Price Range: $2.30 - $13.95, avg. $6-10 |
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Salad
w/entree |
Bean
and cheese chimichanga |
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Beef
Fajitas |
Pescado a la Plancha |
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The
newly added bar in the newly added banquet/brunch/overflow dining room |
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A Look At San
Gabriel Valley Restaurants by SanGabrielValleyMenus.com
Rudy’s Mexican Food in Monrovia –
Growing to Serve You Better
By Bill Coburn
This week, we ate at Rudy’s Mexican Food in
Monrovia. Owner Rudy Castrellon used to have a restaurant in Covina by the same
name, but he has now been in old town Monrovia for twelve years. It is a family
restaurant, not just in the sense of a place for families to enjoy, but also
because several members of Rudy’s family work at the restaurant, as well. On
Friday nights, Rudy sets up shop outside for the Monrovia Family Festival in
addition to offering full table service in the restaurant. Rudy’s also does
catering, and serves food to go.
Rudy’s has recently expanded south, adding a
multi-purpose room that features a beautiful dark wood and stainless steel bar
plus seating for eighty. I say multi-purpose because the room will be used to
handle overflow diners on some evenings and at lunch, as a banquet room whenever
appropriate, as an omelet bar station for a Sunday brunch (starting soon) and as
a lounge for Happy Hour 3 to 7pm (when not being used for other purposes). The
bar will feature standard spirits, as well as top-shelf scotches, whiskeys, and
appropriately, tequila. In fact, some of the top shelf tequilas are in the
$250/bottle range, don’t figure they’ll be among the Happy Hour specials.
We’ve eaten several times at Rudy’s, and have always
been quite happy with our meals. I remember eating a seafood salad off the
lunch menu that I couldn’t figure out how they manage to get so much seafood in
at such a low price. In fact, it seems like I usually get seafood when I go to
Rudy’s, perhaps because they seem to have lower prices for seafood than most of
the Mexican restaurants we visit. This time, I ordered the Pescado a la Plancha
(Fish of the Grill) which was a really good sized piece of red snapper grilled
with onions and sautéed mushrooms, served with rice and a side of salad. The
salad was good sized, and featured tomatoes, celery, cucumber and red bell
pepper. The rice was light and fluffy, with vegetables mixed in, peas, carrots,
green beans and onions. I recommend asking for their hot sauce to add to it,
they have one of the best, hottest hot sauces I’ve enjoyed anywhere. The
snapper was delicious, and as I said, a really good-sized portion. It comes
with a tasty seasoned sour cream sauce that includes onions, garlic and cilantro
mixed in. It also comes with a choice of flour or corn tortillas.
Keelan ordered a bean and cheese chimichanga, served
with rice and beans. He ate most of it, but it was a pretty good sized entrée,
and he didn’t get it all done. He said it had more cheese than he likes, but as
I always say, better to have too much than too little, you can always take it
off.
Katie decided to try the Beef Fajitas, as she hadn’t
had Fajitas in some time. She was very happy with it, noting that there was a
lot of tender beef mixed in with the vegetables. It was seasoned just right,
not too spicy, and served with rice, beans, a side of guacamole and her choice
of flour or corn tortillas.
Rudy’s menu features more than a dozen different
burritos, and more than a dozen combination plates, including a design your own
combination where you choose the items in your combo. Pozole and menudo are on
the menu every day, there are several kinds of salads, and quite a selection of
seafood plates, as well.
I’m looking forward to the new Sunday brunch, which
will have a surprise feature that I haven’t heard of anywhere else. Rudy’s
concerned about complying with the City’s rules and regulations, so I can’t tell
you what it is, but I can say it involves an “eye-opener” for those who might
enjoy one with their brunch. Stop by and see what the surprise is, brunch will
be starting in the next few weeks.
You can find Rudy’s menu online at
www.sangabrielvalleymenus.com/rudys, or at
www.rudysmexicanfood.com. Stop on by and say hi to Rudy, and be sure to let
him know that you read about him in Dot Com Dining.
Bill Coburn is
owner of SanGabrielValleyMenus.com, a restaurant website featuring dozens of
restaurant’s menus, as well as downloadable coupons. He has nearly 20 years
experience in the restaurant business, and has been eating for much longer
than that. |
