“Déjà vu…I’ve been here before,” I said eerily to my date as we stood outside of Zarate’s Latin Grill, 706 S. Broadway in Edmond.
The cartoonish paintings of fish ready to die for your meal, happily, on the outside of the blue building were somewhat familiar to me; I ate here twenty or so years ago, I’m sure, and I do remember liking it back when it was a typical Tex-Mex place. I’m pretty sure that I even traded a few AMC movie passes to pay for my meal here.
Sometime in 2007 though, according to the menus, is the year when whatever this place was transformed into Zarate’s Latin Grill, going far beyond the typical Mexican entrees and into such culinarily ignored—in Oklahoma, at least—countries as Chile, Jamaica, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Peru and Cuba, to name a few.
I couldn’t think of a better place to review for my first restaurant in the usually high-priced and higher-classed Edmond area.