Baja Mexican Cantina: Appetizers

What do we Filipinos and Mexicans have in common? We are both converted to Christianity by our colonizers, the Spaniards. Both of us are rich in cultural heritage. We also have similarities in pop cultures. Both respective cultures loves soap operas. Even their soaps were dubbed in Tagalog and got televised locally.

 

Mexican restaurants are rare here in the Philippines and thus enter Baja Mexican Cantina. It opened to public way back in 2009 in its first and only branch is in Greenbelt 3. The idea to open up a Mexican restaurant manifested when co-owner Art Mendoza moved in the Philippines from California and started looking for any Mexican restaurant in the Metro. To his frustration, he ended up cooking tacos and burritos for himself.

He let his friends tried his own Mexican cooking and they were able to conceptualized and agreed that to start their own Mexican restaurant and Baja Mexican Cantina was born. Cristine Hong, one of the co-owners that hosted our food tasting, shares that Mexican food became her favorite since she tried Art's cooking.

Nancho Supreme

For appetizers, I first tried their Nancho Supreme. It is made up the usual  corn tortilla chips, guacamole and cheese, onions, tomatoes but I what I find unique in flavor was the sour cream which I never tasted in most nanchos I had before. Choices of serving the Nacho Supreme can be either regular, at 155 Pesos or Large at 215 Pesos.

Carne Asada Fries

The next appetizer I got to try was the Carne Asada Fries. It has the same list of toppings as the Nanchos. The Regular serving cost 195 Pesos and the Large serving cost 275 Pesos.

Cheese Quezadilla

Another suggestion for the appetizers are the Quesadillas. You have four variations to choose from. There's the Cheese Quezadilla, Chicken Quezadilla and its Spicy Chicken variation, and the Steak Quesadilla. For now, I got to try their Cheese Quezadilla because we were already going to try the main course. The Cheese Quesadilla is served with corn tortilla chips and Baja's original salsa sauce and it costs only 175 Pesos.

Don't be fooled how the appetizers is served, it may only be appetizers but it is quite a mouthful and just as mouthwatering. These appetizers are just for starters. The main course will surely be a dining challenge which I will feature in my next post. Baja Mexican Cantina is located on the third floor of Greenbelt 3 in Makati. For delivery, just dial 87878. They can also deliver at the cinemas nearby. Just place an order and give them the the exact cinema and time.