Gift certificate ($25) at this Bestheda TexMex restaurant.

This affordable place in the Bethesda area has been awarded the Fodors Choice award. Upon entering the restaurant, you'll find a casual atmosphere. This restaurant features a full bar, breakfast, and brunch. This place is good for groups.

The restaurant, featuring a Tex-Mex menu, is the place to come to satisfy the whole family. Here, the kids can grab a taco, while the adults enjoy an entree that reaches beyond the usual fare of family restaurants. This is a cheerful, brightly decorated restaurant. The ambiance is energetic and the wait staff is friendly and helpful. The menu offers many of the usual favorites, such as enchiladas and fajitas, but they are flavored and prepared with care. Specialties such as ceviche and frog legs are among the many imaginative offerings.

The washington Post writes: "Almost everything is good. The chips are thin and delicate, though the same could be said of the salsa, and that's not a compliment. The fajitas are a fabulous pile of crusty grilled skirt steak (or chicken for the timid) to wrap in those warm, puffy tortillas. The tamales and enchiladas have solid character, the chiles rellenos are flavorful as well as moderately fiery. And the accompanying red rice and pork-studded beans are good enough to serve proudly as a meal. Beyond the down-to-earth Tex-Mex dishes, there are such elegances as quail, frog legs and a big, luxurious, lime-sharpened, cilantro-fragrant seviche of shellfish and orange roughy. Grilled shrimp are merely ordinary, though, and crispy tacos, especially chicken, taste like chain-restaurant cooking. Still, few are the disappointments in this gregarious trio of Tex-Mex restaurants."