Joe's Mexican Food

Best Carne Asada in Town.... with a sign like that, I had to stop by after a trip to the post office.

This is located on the southwest corner of Foothill and Sierra in Fontana. There is a small parking lot out back. The place itself reminds me of a doughnut or milk drive thru from the old days, except they no longer have drive thru windows. It also reminds me of most Wienershnitzels. There is one ordering window and one pickup window.

On this day I ordered what they called the best:

I had the All Meat Carne Asada Burrito, and a side of french fries.

The fries when hot were tasty, but were not salted evenly and mostly not salted enough.

The burrito overall rates pretty high on my lists. The complaints are that its uneven also, most of the cilantro, onions, and sauce ended up being on one side of the burrito. That side of the burrito was excellent tasting! The side of the burrito that got missed was a little dry and bland. The green sauce is typical and not spicy at all, which I sort of expected. The red sauce had minimal kick, but left me disappointed as well.

Price was pretty good, definitely can get more bang for my buck here than at Taco Factory.

Taking into account this is a tiny sort of dingy hole in the wall, I actually give the burrito 4 stars. The location as a whole, and the fries kind of lack though, and overall I'll give 3.5 stars.

Ono Hawaiian BBQ - Fontana

Pretty good fast food. In the mood for Hawaiian food?

Here it is. Is it authentic? Probably not, but large portions, decent prices make this place a solid place to visit.

Friday night in the IE, we decided against cooking this night and visited Ono Hawaiian BBQ, basically a clone of L&L, or is L&L the clone? This is located in the strip mall on Summit and Beech, amongst lots of competition from other fast food joints. At 6PM on a friday night, this place was definitely busy. We were second in line, but there were only 2 tables left when we got there, and the food actually took 20 minutes to get ready.

We ordered 2 combos, one was the Chicken Katsu, the other was the Hawaiian Combo.

This chicken katsu was good, crispy and chicken tasted fresh.

The Hawaiian Mix combo consisted of beef short ribs, regular beef and Hawaiian Chicken. The chicken was juicy and sweet (most Hawaiian food has a sweet taste to it). The beef a tad on the dry side and the ribs were slightly overcooked for my taste, but that is the way these ribs are usually made.

The sides were rice and macaroni salad. The macaroni salad had a little tang from somewhere.... kind of an unpleasant surprise in my view.

Can't complain overall , we will stop by again, maybe there won't be such a line next time.

3.5 stars out of 5 overall.

Flame Broiler - Rancho Cucamonga

Wife had a hankering for some Flame Broiler so off we went. As an aside, I have had Flame Broiler also from their Pomona and Torrance locations.

This Flame Broiler is located in a small strip mall, not on a corner. Its on Foothill Boulevard on the south side of the street between Rochester and Miliken. Its a rather small location with both outdoor (maybe 3 tables of 2/3) and indoor seating. This particular location provides kim chi and brown rice on request. They also have rooster sauce to drench your food with.

What we had today

Wife had the Rib Platter - Ribs are well cooked, and probably the only meat that does not require some of the Magic Sauce or Spicy Magic sauce, although a touch of rooster sauce may help. Vegetables are boiled. The only grief wifey had here is that you can't get the ribs in bowl size, they only come in the platter size. The Walnut locations you are able to get them in bowl size.

I had the beef with vegetables bowl. I get the vegetables just to trick myself into believing I'm eating healthy. Without the spicy magic sauce and rooster sauce mix I put on top of the meat, it is usually too dry, but with the sauce, its magic!, I only put one small cup full, but it brings out the flavor.

Overall for fast food, this place it pretty good. My wife would rate it above Yoshinoya. I give it 3 stars myself out of 5.