My New Second Favorite Restaurant

I just went to Pittsburgh last week for a meeting (boring) and went the night before to hang out with Stacy. After doing our Christmas presents with the kids we went out for dinner at Mad Mex. It was a total accident finding this restaurant, but I'm so glad we did. We started out by going to a Mexican restaurant that Stacy knew, but they closed at 9:00, which wouldn't be any good at 8:30. Bring technology into the picture, and Google gave us a list of near by Mexican restaurants. I read a caption that this place Mad Mex had tofu tacos, and was sold! The next adventure was trying to find this place. We saw the sign for it stuck on the side of a hill. Thanks to the lovely landscape of the Pennsylvania hills, we drove up two driveways, and in two shopping plazas looking for this place. I was beginning to think the entrance was carved into the side of the hill and we'd have to hike there. Finally, we just called them and they directed us back to the first parking lot, where they were at the other end, not even close to their sign... ANYWAYS... The menu was amazing! They had so many vegetarian options to choose from, which is extremely unusual. And they were more than just beans and rice. They had plenty of options made with tofu! I settled on the tofu tacos, which were out of this world! In soft taco shells, they layered crispy fried tofu, coated with their house mole sauce, avocado slices, cilantro and bean sprouts. It was SO delicious!

Fast forward to Monday..I just had to have these tacos again. I see this becoming a staple around here for me. All I did was bake some tofu, doctor up some canned mole sauce, and voila! I think they were even better the second time around (with about triple the cilantro :) Yum!