Veggie Bites: Seco's Latin Cuisine

We love restaurants in cute little houses. They immediately make us feel comfortable and at home, except we don't have to cook or wash the dishes. And yet, while the quaint brick cottage is one reason we love Seco's Latin Cuisine, the food is enough to make us forget our surroundings.

Usually we like to come here for the $13 Sunday brunch buffet, so that we can stuff our selves silly and then have the tres leches and the flan and the bread pudding and toddle home for a glorious Sunday nap. Today not being Sunday, we had the spinach enchiladas ($9ish), which came gently bathed in a cilantro cream sauce, with sides of black beans and sauteed green beans (which we subbed for the not-so-vegetarian refried beans and Spanish rice). Now, we'll be the first to admit that there is a time and place for greasy enchiladas so heavily doused in cheese and sauce that you must find a forklift to take you home, but you won't need any such device after eating this dish. The spinach filling was well-done but fairly standard (although we recall the other veg enchilada, filled with corn, poblano peppers, and cream cheese, being completely divine), the flour tortillas were soft but not soggy, the cheese was judiciously applied, and the cilantro cream sauce really works without being too rich or overwhelming the dish.

In fact, our only regret after completely cleaning our plate was that we didn't save any room for the bread pudding. We don't know how Chef Seco does it, but this decadent bread pudding with the heavenly whiskey sauce must have liberally added doses of magic, because it's the best dang bread pudding we've ever had, and, well, we really like our bread pudding

Seco's Latin Cuisine
2536 Nottingham St (713) 942-0001

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