Restaurant News: Aqui Es Mexico and Escafe (aka “The Cafeteria”)

Posted by Thor on September 15th, 2008 38 Comments

We have two small bits of restaurant news for you.

First off, Aqui Es Mexico has relocated right next door.  Having replaced the payday loans business which used to be in the same shopping center, the restaurant grew about three fold.  The menu and food stay the same, but be prepared for a much nicer dining experience and an even smaller chance you will have to wait for a table.  Uber ambiance points!

Secondly, a birdie told me that the Escafe dance floor has all the whizz bangs, gizmos and bloopies you could ever want.  I did not get a chance to do a closer inspection, but from the description, it was “totally discified,” complete with bright lights, strobes and the works.  Unfortunately, it’s still separated from the bar area.  Question:  will the average dancer cross the threshold, attracted by the bright lights and thumping base, or is it too much of an abyss?  

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38 Responses to “Restaurant News: Aqui Es Mexico and Escafe (aka “The Cafeteria”)”

  1. 15 Sep 2008 at 11:35 am1uva non-douche said:

    I might be a little partial, but I prefer X Lounge for dancing. There’s a much bigger bar, where people can dance on, and a more well rounded mix of people, in my opinion. Escafe is great, though, and I love Micah, I think he’s one of the best bartenders in cville. However, since Escafe is all the way at the very beginning of the mall, not really near most of the other bars, I still would rather roll to X.

  2. 15 Sep 2008 at 11:37 am2duckduckgoose said:

    there’s a real dance floor at escafe? totally thought that was the bar. or the tables.

  3. 15 Sep 2008 at 12:22 pm3Stanley said:

    thumping base

    Ew.

  4. 15 Sep 2008 at 12:49 pm4reigunred said:

    All your thumping base belong to us.

  5. 15 Sep 2008 at 1:52 pm5Lulu said:

    Attsa pretty propagandistic pic, though, no?

    Do we not understand why there’s a gold star, and a sad, lonely pup?

  6. 15 Sep 2008 at 1:55 pm6Stanley said:

    @5: Yeesh. I missed that the first time around. “Loose lips sink ships” does ring a bit tone-deaf for restaurant gossip.

  7. 15 Sep 2008 at 2:50 pm7orchid said:

    @1 but X is across STREETS!

  8. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:07 pm8otterdung said:

    is the awesome but tiny salvadoran/equadoran place still there in the shopping center with Acqui Es Mexico?

  9. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:30 pm9Stanley said:

    salvadoran/equadoran

    That’s an odd pairing from a strictly geographic perspective.

  10. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:35 pm10uva non-douche said:

    @7, I know but I think the general atmosphere is better and more fun

  11. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:37 pm11otterdung said:

    i’m assuming it’s one or the other, but admit colossal geographic and cultural ig-no-rance.

    the food was delicious if simple, and dirt-cheap. several times there, i was the only gringo in the place, and they had to bring someone from out-back to walk me through the menu in English–hard not to love that.

    isn’t there an awful chain of Ruby-Tuesday sort of restaurants, Irish-Mexican in theme?

  12. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:38 pm12orchid said:

    @10 plus it’s harder to get guys to buy you drinks when they’re gay

  13. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:38 pm13otterdung said:

    @10
    nobody’s ever thrown a credit card at me in Escafe.
    then again, no guy has tried to grope me in X.

  14. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:39 pm14otterdung said:

    @12
    spit out my smoothie on that one.

  15. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:41 pm15Stanley said:

    @10 plus it’s harder to get guys to buy you drinks when they’re gay

    Not if you’re a guy.

  16. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:53 pm16uva non-douche said:

    I feel uncomfortable when guys buy my drinks, I feel like they expect something in return most of the time. Usually, I buy my own drinks so I don’t have to worry about creepsters.

  17. 15 Sep 2008 at 3:59 pm17orchid said:

    echo is fine with strange men buying him drinks :)

  18. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:02 pm18uva non-douche said:

    lol well that’s echo and we both know what he’s like, he’ll take a free drink from ANYONE and anything

  19. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:04 pm19echo said:

    True story.

  20. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:08 pm20orchid said:

    especially if it’s tequila

  21. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:09 pm21echo said:

    I only keep you around for the free drinks/shots that come with you.

  22. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:16 pm22orchid said:

    i’m well aware.

  23. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:29 pm23duckduckgoose said:

    free drink from ANYONE and anything

    anyTHING? thought zombies got kicked out of bars.

  24. 15 Sep 2008 at 4:44 pm24orchid said:

    not until after they give us free drinks! :D

  25. 15 Sep 2008 at 5:50 pm25Chris said:

    @11 - Carlos O’Kelly’s?

  26. 15 Sep 2008 at 10:05 pm26buster said:

    i ate at AEM for the first time last week in the new space and was duly impressed, not only by the food (holy awesome pork and cactus, batman) but also by the room. by the time i left it was packed but not nearly as loud as it could/should have been. and hey- they have clamato!

  27. 16 Sep 2008 at 8:35 am27belmont yo said:

    Hmm… interesting, and pleasant, development. I wonder if it will be discified on wednesday? I wonder if Im still employed there? I have been somewhat… foggy of late.

    /hi y’all.

  28. 16 Sep 2008 at 8:42 am28echo said:

    Dave! Welcome back.

  29. 16 Sep 2008 at 8:42 am29Thor said:

    HI B’YO. I HAVE MISSED YOU! (like a puppy)

  30. 16 Sep 2008 at 8:53 am30Lu Sid said:

    Ditto

  31. 16 Sep 2008 at 9:06 am31caroline said:

    B’yo!!

    /welcome back Kotter

  32. 16 Sep 2008 at 9:10 am32mc said:

    wowwowow. nanners quits and Belmont returns!! looks like Stanley was right about the laws of physics in mcquits. Welcome back, dude, even if it’s just for an occasional visit.

  33. 16 Sep 2008 at 9:22 am33echo said:

    @32: If one person was going to come back with a chair and hit someone, it would be ‘nanigans.

  34. 16 Sep 2008 at 9:40 am34otterdung said:

    OMG BYo, i had been pining for your return, pestering Shen to go drag you back by an earlobe in spite of your caterwauling resistance and petulant objections.

    Hope you are doing and feeling well and better.

  35. 19 Sep 2008 at 1:22 am35backup planet said:

    @26 - i totally love clamato and dagnabbit, byo, what the heck took ya so long???

    /ok, even I can hear the ocean in a shell… but can you hear us clam-orin to have you back???

  36. 19 Sep 2008 at 1:23 am36backup planet said:

    on another note, where the heck is shen????

  37. 19 Sep 2008 at 1:24 am37backup planet said:

    ooh, for the first time, I rule ALL the comments…

  38. 17 Oct 2008 at 9:10 am38cVillain » Blog Archive » Weekend Preview: Carve Your Pumpkins! said:

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