It was our last day in Toronto and we decided to take the long ride from our hotel by the airport into town for one last shot at what could be the best plate of nachos in Canada. I wasn't ready to say that the Beertown nachos were the best on our trip or that the Snooty Fox in Fredericton were the best in Canada. I was ready to have my mind blown and when it's your last day in a big city, you have to make it count. I wanted these nachos to be on my mind while we are trying to land in foggy Saint John and then rushing to work immediately after landing with my ears still plugged up from the plane. Plus, who knows when we will be in Toronto again? It's between Toronto or Quebec City for our fall marathon next year. They are doing a battle in my mind. We went to Squirly's because the editor did some research and saw that Squirly's might be good. This restaurant had previously closed their doors after 36 years and recently re-opened to be Squirly's 2.0. How were t...
Mama's Restaurant is a pizza place located on Main Street in Moncton, New Brunswick. After attending a Matt Mays concert at the Tide and Boar, we decided to have a good snack before calling it a night and Mama's was open just next door. We walked in through the crowd of kids and decided to do some nacho research for the blog. When you go to a place that specializes in pizza, you expect the pizza to be great and the rest of the food offered to be sub-par. Freddie's Pizza proved us wrong in that regard with their nachos being in the hometown top ten for a long time now, so of course Mama's could also stand up to the competition. Spoiler alert: Mama's was no Freddie's.
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| Mama's Chicken Nachos - June 2022 |
Distribution of Toppings
When you look at the picture, you see that there is not a lot of cheese. That cheese in the picture was all we got as there was only cheese on that top layer. To give a tribute to the earlier posts "the make-up came off". The distribution of toppings was pretty poor.
Quality
While we did not get a lot of cheese, there was a good amount of chicken and there probably could have been more veggies. They also use round chips which always tends to give nachos an inauthentic feel.
Quantity
This is a good size to share as a meal or after a late night outing e.g., Matt Mays concert!
Conclusion
Eventually you just start asking some questions to yourself: "what were your expectations going in?" and "Do you allow a place that specializes in pizza more leeway than a place that specializes in nachos?" We really should have ordered pizza and had a better experience. These nachos satisfied our hunger but did not fulfill us because there was poor distribution of toppings and not the best quality. The parts where these nachos do shine would be the quantity and value, especially late at night.
Nacho Blog Rating: C-