"My husband and I enjoyed Valentine's Day dinner at Nuestra Mesa... walked around the cute little Camas downtown area afterwards. This was our first time at the restaurant and the atmosphere is very nice. I'm vegan, my husband is not... sometimes food can be challenging for me. This restaurant had one dish that was close enough to vegan (veggie mesa bowl) for me. I also had a blackberry margarita which was excellent. We shared the chips/salsa/guac appetizer. The salsa was a roasted tomato salsa and it was excellent. The guac was... boring. Chips were excellent, authentic heavy corn. My husband ordered 3 chicken tacos and those came open face, smallish, pretty. He said that it was cold (because that amount of chicken in an open face taco isn't going to remain hot long) and somewhat unseasoned. The wait staff didn't offer taco sauce or salsa, he had to ask for it. So, OK pretty but not compelling. The mesa bowl I had was also pretty, but not compelling. Few veggies, a couple slices of brussel sprout, bell pepper and onion on a bed of rice and black beans. If I choose to substitute meat for veggies then I really am looking for more veggies than that and something beyond a couple slices of brussel sprout. It was also the only up scale restaurant I've ever been to on a holiday particularly that didn't offer dessert after dinner. I found that really odd. We didn't ask, they might have had something. So, all in all we enjoyed the evening out but the restaurant food wasn't such that it would draw us back again. I'd offer a comparison to Mi Corazon in Cannon Beach... they offered things like a carne asada plate where the carne marinade included hibiscus and it was so delicious I came out of my vegan space to have a couple bites. It was absolutely delicious and sorta made you want to bathe in it. That wasn't the case with the dishes we had at Nuestra."
