Pepe Delgados, San Luis Obispo, Calif.

The food was bland beyond belief. The drinks were more alcoholic than at any restaurant I've been to in recent memory, but had nothing else to recommend them. Somebody dropped a pound of scallions in the salsa when the cook's back was turned, so it tasted like moderately spicy tomato-scallion puree.

There's very little to recommend this place in a town where you can find actual Mexican people, and therefore, one presumes, actual Mexican food.