Holy Balls! Los Carboncitos just Mexicame all over me.

Los Carboncitos

722 Sheridan Blvd., Lakewood, CO 80214

Finally! After 10 long and arduous years of soul searching and bucket listing and apocalypse waiting and finally getting around to reading 100 Years of Solitude that everyone has been all it is so good you should read it and me being all don't you know how much I hate Gabriel Garcia Marquez and people being all how would I know and me being all didn't I tell you that I had to read El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escribe in Spanish class in high School and that book made me realize that yes, I can memorize words in another language but can I actually put them together in a sentence or understand paragraph structures let alone pages after pages of actual literature NO!?!?!  I AM AN ACADEMIC FRAUD! And after staring at the first quiz of the first few chapters of the book for 20 minutes and thinking I don't know a goddamn word on this page except for the part that says nombre, I got up out of my chair, threw my test away and walked out the door telling myself I would never return, well maybe at my 50 year  reunion and people would ask me, whatever happened to you and I would say, it was Gabriel Garcia Marquez but that was high school and I very much enjoyed living under the roof of  people who paid for food and shelter and so I returned, head in my hands, beaten and I swore I would never read the words of that man again. He who taught me I know nothing. But that was before 20 years of television and unlearning everything I once knew and going from never ever ever forgetting a face to barely remembering what mine once looked like, when it was fresh and sans crows feet and age and regret and remorse and my own quest through the depths of hell and purgatory and eventually the heaven that is the Huarache at Los Carboncitos is complete. Although my guide was less a Virgil and more a friend who accidentally forgot to mention this place in the last 10 years of conversing on a weekly basis about how I cannot find a decent mexican restaurant in the DENVER? And finally she said to me, oh, wait have you been there? I eat there all the time. It is definitely the best. Oh, by far. I cannot believe I haven't mentioned this before.

Apparently, this is a chain of three, but I can only vouch for the 7th and Sheridan location and as I remember my experience with all of my body and soul and my plate filled with so many meats, I think of how sometimes, in order to appreciate some delicioso mexican food, we must face our greatest fears.


the end motherfuckers.