Vive Sol

Name: Vive Sol
Address: 2020 El Camino Real, Mountain View, California 94040
Phone: 650-938-2020
Web site: www.vivesol.biz
Date & Time visited: Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:30 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Two house margaritas ("Margarita del Sol"), Pollo Negro (Jen), Pollo Guajillo (me).

The Pollo Negro is a very California-Mexican dish, with chicken breast strips in a creamy wine sauce with spinach and goat cheese. Jen loved it, as did I when I stole a bite. Pollo Guajillo is "Grandma's special", with a guajillo pepper, garlic and sour cream sauce. It was also excellent, with a bit of a kick from the guajillo peppers. The house margaritas were classic and pretty strong.

Service: Good to very good. Actually it was better than "good" but I have to dock a virtual point or two for the time waiting to get our check after we'd finished--a peeve of mine. At the time we were there, there were only a couple of other parties and so our server was more or less around all the time. The manager came over at one point to see how we were doing--always a plus.

Would we go back: Yes, and we might even take friends.