We are close enough to make an extended road trip to this place, but there’s a great online review of Mexi-Casa in Pittsburgh, PA which describes itself as the least authentic Mexican restaurant in town. A restaurant emboldened enough to make that sorta statement is probably pretty good despite its self-deprecation. One thing that got our attention was this remark made by the article’s author:

The interior of Mexi-Casa is pretty standard — adobe-orange paint and Mexi-kitsch laid thick on the walls. But one outstanding idea sets it apart — the exhaustively stocked hot sauce bar. It has every hot sauce you can imagine, from tried-and-true Tabasco to stuff that probably tastes like oven-roasted napalm.

Oven-roasted napalm? We’ve tasted more than a few sauces that fit that description, so we know what he meant by that. We haven’t seen a good hot sauce bar in quite a while…probably since visiting the Starboard Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, DE to see Chip’s wall o’ sauces. The idea is positively fascinating to say the least.

Oh, and from the hot sauce bar, we can recommend Cheech’s Chipotle, Meredith’s XXXTra and something called “A** in the Tub.”

Here’s where we differ from the author. Ass in the Tub is a run-of-the-mill extract sauce, and not even one with all that good of a taste to it. Cheech’s Chipotle is also rather ordinary as far as chipotle sauces go. We think that the Meredith XXXtra mentioned is probably really Melinda’s.

Anyhow, here is the restaurant’s contact info:

Mexi-Casa
Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Mon.-Sat

Address: 3001 W. Liberty Ave., Dormont

Phone: 412-571-9001

So, go have a burrito and let ‘em know we sent ya!!

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