{"id":29931,"date":"2025-04-25T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=29931"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:47:16","slug":"itzcali-tapas-tequila-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=29931","title":{"rendered":"Itzcali Tapas & Tequila Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I tried Itzcali Tapas & Tequila<\/a>, I really didn’t like it. Fast forward to one year later and I’m kind of changing my tune.<\/p>\n

\"Horchata\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Townley and I ate there for lunch a couple of months ago. This time I decided to try their horchata, which was super creamy and really good. It pretty much set the tone for the meal.<\/p>\n

\"Elote\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I ordered the elote and it was also excellent.<\/p>\n

\"Birria<\/a><\/p>\n

Normally you would have birria as a taco but Itzcali offers it in different forms so Chris and I had it two different ways that day. I had the birria soup and Chris had the birria flatbread pizza.<\/p>\n

\"Birria<\/a><\/p>\n

My birria soup was delicious. This lunch is truly what changed my feelings about Itzcali. So, when Chris suggested we have lunch there again a few weeks ago. I was like, sure. I really liked it the last time — thinking of our most recent visit and not the first one (which I didn’t really like).<\/p>\n

\"Cucumber<\/a><\/p>\n

On this next visit, I opted for the cucumber aqua fresca. It was amazing. It’s now my most favorite drink to get there.<\/p>\n

\"Bowl\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I had the bowl with pork al pastor (above) for lunch. The presentation was 100x better than the first bowl I got there. Chris had a quesadilla (below) but I cannot remember what meat he chose. He said it was good, though.<\/p>\n

\"Quesadilla\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, I like Itzcali so much now that I actually didn’t mind eating there twice in the same week. The same week that Chris and I had lunch there, I met our friends Grant and Susie Ternes and Brian there for lunch too. Chris and I went on Tuesday and I was back again on Friday. Grant and Susie had been there before but it was Brian’s first time.<\/p>\n

\"Itzcali\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of the restaurant interior, which is interesting and unique. There’s no other place that looks like this in Wichita.<\/p>\n

\"Brian's<\/a><\/p>\n

This was the day of Brian’s follow up with Dr. Chris Dakhil, when we found out the results of his PET scan. Everything looked good.<\/p>\n

\"Cucumber<\/a><\/p>\n

I had to get my favorite drink!<\/p>\n

\"Margarita\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Susie went for something stronger.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the pics that follow are pictures of our lunch.<\/p>\n

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We don’t really have a lot of tapas places here in Wichita so I am grateful to have found one I like. I feel like this place struggled in the beginning but it looks like they’re finally finding their groove. It’s now on my permanent rotation. Let me know if you have other tapas places you like that we should check out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time I tried Itzcali Tapas & Tequila, I really didn’t like it. Fast forward to one year later and I’m kind of changing my tune. Chris Townley and I ate there for lunch a couple of months ago. This time I decided to try their horchata, which was super creamy and really good. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1791,1752],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29931"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29944,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29931\/revisions\/29944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}