LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytes.comIf your idea of Mexican food is shaped by Taco Bell or Don Pablo's, it's time you tie your taste buds into something auténtico. Real Mexican food sports colorful flavors that aren't just spicy but tickle your tongue like a mariachi band rattles your ears.
In recent years, we've told you about quite a few new taquerias and roticerias brought to town by Louisville's growing Latino community; just about every new arrival has added gustatory excitement to the regional mix. We thought we had pretty much hit the top of the ladder when a lovable, Mexico City-style taco and gordita trailer, Las Gorditas, rolled up recently in Fern Creek's Eastland Shopping Center (LEO Weekly, May 28).
But there's more. Out on another edge of the metro area, in a strip center just off I-65 where Hamburg Pike meets the mysteriously monikered Charlestown–N.A. Pike, the tiny but lovable Buenos Dias Café - open since March but attended with zero publicity - raises the bar another notch.
Buenos Dias means "good day" in Spanish, of course, and the bold tangerine and papaya-colored walls and pretty blue tables and chairs in this bright, modern strip-mall eatery make it feel like a sunny morning all day long.
The menu is short, but it is affordable, and the dishes are delicious. And what's more, it's not just Mexican but reflective of all the Latino heritages of owner Daisy Lucio and her family, who hail from - and offer the culinary delights of - Mexico, Puerto Rico and Honduras. ...
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Buenos Dias Café
1703 Charlestown-N.A. Pike
Jeffersonville, Ind.
(812) 282-2233
Robin Garr's rating: 88 points