What: Chino Latino
Where: Lake Street and Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
Rating: 2
Non-Quantifiable Rating: Ighhhhh....nobody in the world is as cool as Chino Latino thinks they are.
If you want to see a whooooole lot of 22-year-old girls wearing last season's daddy-purchased BCBG and too much perfume and a whoooooole lot of 40-year-old men wearing the paper headbands and pretending to be in college whilst ogling the aforementioned needy 22-year-olds, this is your place. Otherwise, jaywalk to Chiang Mai Thai and save yourself the obligatory eye-rolling and long, pointless waiting.
About 1% of me thinks their menu and marketing plan is funny and innovative and avant-garde, and the other 99% thinks it's wildly racially and sexually offensive. And I'm not usually overly touchy. This place tries WAYYYY too hard and realized that their food quality and service doesn't warrant their prices so they had to be controversial in order to attract a crowd.
In fairness, I look forward to my annual New Year's Eve trek to this place because it's a tradition, but I live two blocks away and you'd have to pay me to make an effort to go back during the rest of the year.
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