Coma-inducing* goats? Yes. They are delicious.

Fridays are the best, especially today, which came after a particularly long week. In any case, Alice and I decided to go over to Birrieria Zaragoza, which has the most excellent reviews on Yelp. This was a very epic foodventure, whose epicness shows our absolute commitment to delicious food, as it was relatively hard to get to; it required a long bus ride and a 20-minute walk before we reached our final destination (by that time, I was very hungry already):

Birrieria Zaragoza is a relatively small, family-run restaurant, which was nice--the owner was very present throughout our entire meal, and talked to us about things like onion and garlic tea with lime and honey (which is supposed to be good for your bronchials), and that the cinnamon sticks that they sell in the stores is not really cinnamon (it's cassia, which is cheaper and less flavorful/fragrant than regular cinnamon). They also had an open kitchen, which was nice since you could see your food being prepared, as well as your corn tortillas being made by hand.

Note their short menu--they only have around 3 entrees here: goat (in 2 sizes), tacos and quesadillas.

Condiments that they gave you for your food: lime, cilantro, chopped onions, hot sauce and chilis. They make their hot sauce fresh every day from the chilis (I loved their hot sauce--it tasted fresh and smoky, and was more predominantly chili-based, unlike other hot sauce varieties, which are sometimes vinegary or watery).

Their plato chico (child's size portion) of goat, for $7 (the adult-sized plate was $9). It was good and well worth it--the goat was fork-tender, and the tomato-based consomme spooned on top of the goat added to the natural flavors of the goat itself. The subtle smokiness of the goat's natural flavors was highlighted by the spices that it was roasted in, as well as its slightly crisp texture--reminded me a bit of eating carne asada.

Of course, as good as the goat was on its own, these handmade corn tortillas completed the meal (as well as added a lot of carbs to my meal intake). They were a bit on the thick side, and were freshly-made with a distinct corn flavor--they were also perfect for soaking up the extra sauce (consomme) from the goat.

I'm really not a big coffee person, despite being from Seattle, arguably the coffee capital of the US, but I decided to try their Cafe Casero (cinnamon-laced Mexican coffee), and was not disappointed. According to the owner, what they do is blend 3 types of coffee beans from Starbucks (yay Seattle!) to make the coffee, to which they add some cinnamon tea (from real Mexican cinnamon, not the cassia which people usually think is cinnamon--apparently, real cinnamon breaks very easily while the cassia cinnamon does not). Their coffee was very smooth with a strong, yet not overpowering cinnamon flavor...and since refills were free, I had 2 cups of coffee and brought back another cup to take home.

But yeah, the thing with their food is that you just...keep eating (the tortillas fill you up too). After eating each of our child's plate portions, we ended up splitting on half of an adult's plate, the rest of which is in my fridge at the moment with condiments and tortillas (all of which will surely be consumed before the week is over).

*coma-inducing: apparently goat has tryptophan, which like Thanksgiving turkey makes you both sleepy and happy.