La Hacienda

Greetings! We'll be posting our experiences in and around Indianapolis and across Indiana. We love food and the countryside.

I figured that Sunday May 24 would be a good day to go to the Indianapolis Zoo since many people would be at the Indy 500. This was our first time going to the zoo despite the fact that we've lived here over 10 years. We got there at 9am, and there were maybe 50 cars in the parking lot.

We loved the zoo. I'll post some pics on that part of the day soon.

On the way back we stopped at La Hacienda at 68th and Binford Blvd. We found out about this place from the Indy Restaurant Scene blog.

We stopped there because we recently took our first shot at making homemade tamales. I'll post those pics soon, too. We really enjoyed them, but we wanted to get a comparison with real tamales.

We loved it. The food was served fast, and mega hot. The prices were right. We'd recommend it.

I had #14, a tamale and two enchiladas. Anita had #5 with a tamale. The #5 was rice and beans and cheese and beef enchiladas. Anita also ordered a Texas marg. We also had guacamole with the chips and salsa they brought when we sat down.

Anita really liked the margarita, and everything else she ordered. She'd have had another marg had it not been noon. I loved everything I had too.

The food was great. As the blog link above mentions, the guac was good, but not the usual thick style. Still, tasty. For about $34 (including tip) we crawled out of the place, full and happy.

BTW, our tamales were actually better, sorta. We slow cooked a boston butt all day for our tamales. Ours had a little better taste, but we didn't use as much masa, so ours were smaller. I'll post the recipe and pics of our attempt soon.