Last Saturday night December 13th, my girlfriend and I met up with some of her work friends for some drinks. The location was chosen by the people we were meeting, they had been there a number of times before and said it was a good spot for Mexican food and drinks.
The restaurant we ended up at that night was Tres Pesos, on Woodlawn Road in Charlotte. Not much to look at from the outside, and unfortunately that is the best thing I can say about it. It is not that what I got tasted bad, in fact I thought their Carne Asada was pretty good for NC (and I used to live in California where the real stuff is)! The problem is anyone who ordered anything with Chicken in it got a first class ticket to the emergency room. And I don’t mean 1 or 2 people from our party of 8, how about more like 5. What this means is if you go there in a party of 8, you have a 62.5% chance of being carried out, and not because of too many tequila shots.
OK, that is an exaggeration, you would not be carried out on the spot, because whatever it was they had took about 24 hours to incubate in their system. So what I meant to say is, there is a 62.5% chance that some one will be driving you to the ER within 48 hours. And that is just what I had to do with my girlfriend when she started puking and had not stopped after 7 hours. Thankfully after a number of IV’s in her arm and some anti-nausea shots she was able to go back home and rest. However she has been passed out in bed for the last 2 days, too weak to get up. All because we wanted some Chicken Tacos.
Anyway in case you were wondering Tres Pesos passed their health inspection on11/13/2008 with a 97.5. As nice of a score as that is, it doesn’t change the fact that they poisoned 5 people last week. That we know of. Of course we notified the health department about this, and one hospital is cooperating with them to provide stool samples that were taken from one of the sick individuals. After all they still need to determine if it was bad chicken, improperly handled chicken or good chicken handled by a person not washing their hands or sick. I can’t wait to hear the results. Will post em if I get em.
