Live from Peoria, Illinois, it’s Saturday Night starring this week’s host, Casa de Arte and featuring special guest stars, Ricardo, Aliyah and Jim/Vern Damico!
Now please welcome this week’s host, Casa de Arte!
Here we are at this week’s Saturday night destination, Casa de Arte on Adams Street in downtown Peoria.
I love the giant TACOS sign in the front of the restaurant!
They have a nice row of outdoor seating available, but we’re going to dine inside, so let’s go in and see what’s happening in here on this wonderful Saturday evening!
As you enter, you see this sign with three very important things in life: Art, Tequila and Tacos!
There’s the bar in the front of the restaurant and Ricardo took our drink orders as we entered.
We decided to sit in the dining area across from the bar and now let me introduce you to this week’s Saturday night guest star…
Jim Borho A.K.A. Vern Damico!
Always a pleasure to have dinner with Jim/Vern and here he is with the first margarita of the evening!
We took a look at the menu and decided on our Saturday night dinners and Aliyah took our orders up at the bar. Everything is going perfectly on this wonderful Saturday evening!
We started our dinner off with an appetizer order of the homemade Queso Dip and tortilla chips and it was a rich and creamy treat!
This was a nice start to our Saturday night dinner and now while the rest of our dinner is being prepared, I’ll take a few photos of Casa de Arte.
Here’s a shot from the other end of the bar and there’s the cooler housing the wonderful selection of beers available from the bar.
This is the main dining room and one cool thing featured in here is…
The artist of the month!
Every month Casa de Arte puts the spotlight on a local artist and this month they’re showing the art of local artist, teacher and poet, Maria Elvir.
Here’s some of her wonderful artwork on display in the main dining room of Casa de Arte.
Meanwhile, back at our table in the front of the restaurant…
Our Saturday night dinner has arrived!
Jim got the Steak Torta Sandwich and an Al Pastor and a Bistec taco.
There he is digging into the Torta Sandwich and he said everything was absolutely delicious!
I got an order of the Elote/Street Corn, a Chorizo Taco and a Steak Quesadilla.
Casa de Arte serves up true, authentic Mexican cuisine and it is absolutely a delicious and flavorful treat. If you’ve never dined here, you need to come and check it out!
For dessert we had another margarita!
What a fabulous dinner and thanks to everyone at Casa de Arte for the delicious dinner and atmosphere and thanks to Jim for joining me for dinner and being this week’s Saturday night guest star!
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1227 SW Adams Street
Peoria
309-839-2442
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