Los Mezcales Family Mexican: the real deal on Preston
Los Mezcales Family Mexican Restaurant, 7502 Preston Highway in Louisville, is the real deal.
You know that from the tasty breakfasts — huevos fried or scrambled with tortillas, rice, beans and other south-of-the-border sides. You know it from the enormous $4.99 burritos, the $8.25 marinated chicken pollo a la plancha and the shrimp specials like spicy camarones a la diabla, $9.50.
And you know it from the overhead TVs — each tuned to a Spanish-language talk show, soap opera or other Hispanic-oriented entertainment.
As befits a family restaurant, the interior is simple and comfortable. There are no velvet paintings of bullfighters or recorded mariachi bands that give some restaurants a cheesy feel.
The only cheese at Lost Mezcales is in dishes such as the nachos dip, $3,50, and the beef or chicken enchiladas verdes, $8.25, served with tortilla, salsa, rice, beans and salad topped with pico de gallo and sour cream.
Served all day, breakfast includes the $5.99 Huevos Ranchero — fried eggs with corn tortillas on the bottom and ranchera salsa on top. Like many of the dishes, it comes with corn- or wheat-flour tortillas.
You can also get your eggs con chorizo, with a pork sausage, or a la Mexicana, scrambled with tomato, onions and jalapeño — both $5.99. Several other similarly priced egg dishes fill out the breakfast menu.
Lunch and dinner offerings include the Carne Asada, roasted beef topped with sautéed onions, rice, beans and salad; Bistek Ranchero, steak with Ranchera salsa and sides, Milanesa pollo o res, chicken or beef breaded and pan-fried with sides. Each is $8.25.
Service is quick and friendly at Los Mezcales, which has been open for about a year and is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
- by Ivonne Rovira, Louisville Reporter for HelloMetro
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Ivonne RoviraA graduate of the prestigious Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City, Ivonne Rovira worked as a reporter for the Miami News, The Miami Herald and The Associated Press. She has written articles for The National Catholic Reporter and The Courier-Journal. For more than 15 years, Ivonne wrote and edited articles aimed at middle-school children.
