Cenote

After finishing our closing show for Paper St Theatre's Christmas show, we went out for drinks to celebrate - which of course means nachos!

We went to Cenote, a fairly new place in Victoria right downtown below Lyle's place. Very funky, great art on the walls and very friendly service (they even turned down the speaker that was blasting music too loud for us to converse).

Here are the nachos (half-order $11.95) as they arrived:

The cheese coverage looked great when they arrived, but we quickly discovered that it was only one layer - meaning half the chips were left without cheese. The cheese was an aged cheddar, and fairly melted, but could have been cooked longer. The toppings included fresh tomatoes, olives, hot peppers and the kicker: fresh basil!

The salsa was also fresh and finely chopped making it very easy to scoop. Although, I would have preferred if the salsa and sour cream had been served in a separate dish.

The basil and fresh salsa were a plus, but in the end, it's really cheese per chip that makes nachos the delicious snack that they are.

I'm going to have to give Cenote's dish 3/6.

Side note - my partner got the vegan chili, which came with chips at half the price and were the hit of the table. If I went again, I'd go with the chili over the nachos.