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re: Ponchos Mexican Buffet

Posted on 1/20/15 at 10:30 am to
Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2011
15304 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 10:30 am to
I'm pooping and reading this thread. It's intensifying the liqour shits.
Posted by SportsGuyNOLA
New Orleans, LA
Member since May 2014
16993 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 10:39 am to
quote:

Anyone got any good panchos stories?


Does stomach pain and diarrhea count as a 'good story'?
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
27681 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 10:56 am to
use to go on weekends in college with buddies and have contests on who could eat the most flautas and tacos

shite was like candy, so greasy and so good

the managers look when we would come in was priceless.


I still have a pic from my 8 year old bday party at the one in orange. they gave you a Pinata and put your pic on the wall and it was like Christmas effin morning.
Posted by _madmartigan_
Member since Oct 2014
115 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:16 pm to
I played the shite out of some Rampage at the one on Florida Blvd as a kid.

Those flautas/taquitos dipped in cheese sauce were boss.

Went every year for my birthday to get my free piñata.

I used to bite a hole in the corner of the sopapilla and fill that mother up with Honey.
This post was edited on 1/20/15 at 12:20 pm
Posted by Oates Mustache
Member since Oct 2011
22051 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:37 pm to
There's still an original Panchos in the Houston area. I went there a few months ago and it was just like the one on Vets but bigger.
Posted by hardhead
stinky bayou
Member since Jun 2009
5745 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:53 pm to
Just tried to go to one and it was closed.

Used to go to the one on vets in Metairie, after we would get blowed up. It was a messican food massacre, then sopapillas, then free ice cream for the road.

I had a friend that used to throw his ice cream cone off the overpass on Cleary every time.
Posted by Oates Mustache
Member since Oct 2011
22051 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:57 pm to
Which one? The one off I-45?
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
Member since Aug 2004
17979 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 7:49 pm to
Is the one coming into Houston before 45 on I-10 still alive?
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
59603 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 7:50 pm to
Ponchos and Mardi gras parade on vets. Badass
Posted by Grit-Eating Shin
You're an Idiot
Member since May 2013
8432 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 7:54 pm to
I've got one.

Had my 10th birthday party there. At that time in my life, I wanted to be Mexican. So I got myself a bullwhip from Poncho's for my birthday. I still have it to this day, although I don't whip quite as many bulls with it as I used to.
Posted by ladytiger118
Member since Aug 2009
20922 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 8:26 pm to
quote:

Rosedale Mall

Ain't dere no more.
Posted by jose
Houma
Member since Feb 2009
28567 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 8:38 pm to
There is a place i Kenner called 2 Amigos. I'm about 90% sure it is the same management as the old Vets location, but the food is 100% the same. I went a few months back and it brought back soooooo many memories of my childhood! Everyone needs to go check it out!

ETA: Here is the website. And they even say

quote:

Stop in the next time you're in the neighborhood and enjoy an old favorite.



Sounds like it is the old Ponchos to me

2 Amigos
This post was edited on 1/20/15 at 8:41 pm
Posted by OchoGregO
BR
Member since Jun 2009
232 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 9:06 pm to
I'm not sure if this thread should be on the food and drink board or the diarrhea board. Either way it was always a good time
Posted by DWaginHTown
Houston, TX
Member since Jan 2006
9856 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 9:09 pm to
I went to the one at I-45 at Tidwell tonight and it was delicious!
Posted by ElderTiger
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2010
6987 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 9:28 pm to
quote:

Paige, there is no way you like Panchos and be a respectable datable female. BTW RIP Bossier City Panchos. Gone but never forgotten.


My one and only trip to a Pancho's was the one in Bossier City in the mid 70s. They had the most disgusting waitress in the world and I swore to never go to one again!
Posted by List Eater
Htown
Member since Apr 2005
23565 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 9:30 pm to
quote:

I went to the one at I-45 at Tidwell tonight and it was delicious!


Dang, I thought that was you! I wasn't sure though so I didn't say hi.
Posted by Marco Esquandolas
Member since Jul 2013
11423 posts
Posted on 1/20/15 at 9:43 pm to
quote:

I think it was called Rosedale mall


You are correct! Independence Mall was on the other side of Vets closer to Houston's
Posted by Mitty Taster
Member since Jan 2015
19 posts
Posted on 1/21/15 at 6:12 am to
Here's a mid-90s pic of me and my buddy after we stole some pinatas from the
Metairie location after eating there. Loved the enchiladas with the red tomato soup-ish sauce and sour cream on top

Posted by Oates Mustache
Member since Oct 2011
22051 posts
Posted on 1/21/15 at 6:38 am to
Good to hear! I can't ever get anyone to come with me!
Posted by Oates Mustache
Member since Oct 2011
22051 posts
Posted on 1/21/15 at 6:45 am to
quote:

BTW RIP Bossier City Panchos


I have a CSB about that one. Sometime in the first few months of last year I visited some family in that area. I begged and pleaded for them to come to Panchos with me. They finally caved and it was nasty and pouring down that evening.

We show up and go inside and there's no one at the front. We wait around for about 5 minutes and no one comes help us. We see this guy that looks like a dishwasher and ask him if someone can help us.

He says that Panchos is closed, and I ask if it was because of the bad weather, power outage, etc. He said no we're closed for good and they told all the staff tonight so they all went home. Apparently they gave them no advanced notice and that night was the last night it was open. So they had everything still open and no one working. It sucked and we never got to eat there.
This post was edited on 1/21/15 at 6:48 am
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