Detroit News Review - Huerto Mexican Restaurant and Tequila Bar

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Diners eat under a forest of trees painted on the walls in the main dining room of Huerto, a new Mexican
restaurant in West Bloomfield Township.
We’re open every day in
December for lunch and dinner
theater, so keep checking back
for new dates and times!
108 E. Main • Northville, MI 48167
www.genittis.com 248-349-0522
Photos by Brandy Baker / The Detroit News
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lthough Metro Detroit is
not as restaurant-obsessed as New Orleans,
we must be coming close. New
restaurants continue to pop up
right and left
to satisfy our
seemingly
insatiable
taste for new
dining experiences.
Just in
the last few
MOLLY
months,
ABRAHAM
we’ve seen
the debut of the Stand and
Market North End, both in
Birmingham, Trattoria da Luigi
in Royal Oak, Public House in
Ferndale, New Hellas in Farmington Hills, Steelhouse
Tavern in Troy, Detroit Vegan
Soul and La Feria in Detroit
and Marais in Grosse Pointe.
And that’s just a sampling of
spots so new that some still
have their congratulatory
opening bouquets.
One of the newcomers is the
bright and festive Huerto Restaurant & Tequila Bar in West
Bloomfield Township. It debut-
The flautas appetizer includes flour tortillas rolled with ground
chicken and served with pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole.
More online: See a gallery of photos from Huerto
Restaurant & Tequila Bar at detroitnews.com/restaurants.
ed just a few weeks ago in the
cream-painted, peak-roofed
building on Orchard Lake
Road north of Maple Road,
bringing a casual, sports barstyle menu with an emphasis
on the fajitas, burritos and
enchiladas of Mexico but with
a wider spectrum that includes
ribs and burgers.
It’s in an attractive, freestanding structure (formerly
Big Daddy’s and before that,
Chuck Daly’s) that stands out
among the strip malls in the
area.
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its high ceiling, big fireplace
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the popular Sagebrush Cantina in Lake Orion
and décor theme of tropical birds and flowers
and Eduardo Mayin have hedged their bets by
hand-painted on the walls has a convivial feelexpanding the typical Mexican menu to include
ing, in keeping with the big, communal tables
such mainstream dishes as BLT’s, chicken club
and colorful fare. The price structure is equally
sandwiches, Black Angus burgers and shrimp
appealing, with nothing on the all-day menu
cocktails.
higher than $11.99. A delicious little fish taco,
On the salad list, the Huerto salad stands out.
made with flaky, deep-fried cod tucked into a
It’s a mixture of fresh greens, avocado, olives,
soft corn or flour tortilla with cabbage slaw and
peppers and marinated
pico de gallo is $4.49, for
chicken breast topped with
instance. Add rice and
crisp tortilla ribbons with a
refried beans — tasty reHuerto Restaurant
choice of six dressings, infried beans, in fact — and it
cluding the house vinaiis $7.79. One taco, of course,
& Tequila Bar
grette.
does not make a meal, but a
6199 Orchard Lake Road, West
A bar well stocked with
double comes to just $9.79.
Bloomfield Township
Mexican beers and tequilas
Another winner from
Call: (248) 865-2900
augments the main dining
the taqueria list is carnitas,
Web: www.huertotequilabar.com
area, and yes, there are plenbraised pork in a soft tortilRating: ★★1⁄ 2
ty of TV screens. Service is
la with chopped onion and
friendly and the staff enthusalsa verde at $10.79 for the
Hours: 11 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Sat.,
siastic in the early going.
triple.
noon-midnight Sun. (Bar open later
on Fri.-Sat.)
Huerto (it means “kitchThe tone is set when the
en garden”) is a casual, unrequisite tortilla chips and
Prices: Appetizers $6.99-$9.99,
assuming addition to the
salsa arrive at the table. The
salads $3.79-$10.99, sandwiches
$5.45-$6.99, entrees $8.99-$11.99,
dining choices along Orchips are freshly made each
desserts $3.99-$6.99
chard Lake Road. While it
day, and their salty crunch
doesn’t break any new
is virtually irresistible. The
Credit cards: All major
ground, it offers a good ratio
house salsa is mild, allowLiquor: Full bar
of
value to price.
ing guests to spice it up
Noise level: Moderate
with one of several hot
Parking: Attached lot
[email protected]
sauces on each table. But
Wheelchair
access: No barriers
(313) 222-1475
proprietors Safa Zaraga of