#weirdnachos

Oscars Wine Bar and Bistro Rating: 2.5 Cost: £10.50 ($14.36 USD) Location: York, UK Customization: No  Website

Full Disclosure: This review was written in fall of 2019, but never posted and thought long lost on a USB drive. It has since been found, so I am posting all of the reviews contained on it.

When my wife and I arrived in York we found ourselves in a predicament. We had a few hours to kill before meeting with our Landlord. The problem was we had our luggage and it was raining. We needed to find a restaurant that would be okay with us having our luggage with us. As you can imagine, few places would be interested, and why should they? Thankfully, we found a place that fit the bill towards the center of historic York. It was a quaint little Wine and Bar Bistro called Oscars. The waitress was incredibly kind and accommodating to our problem. It wasn't as bad as we thought, as we were a bit early for the lunch rush, so it wasn't too busy. The decor was nice and clean and very appropriate for the wine and bistro feel suggested by the title. Our focus was eating while killing time, so you can imagine my excitement when I discovered Nachos on their menu. Their menu was predominantly Roasts, Chicken, Burgers, and lots of items with Chilli in it. To be honest, the menu was a bit weird. Seeing Chile Con Carne next to Lasagna, as well as Nachos, and a Sunday Yorkshire pudding all on the same menu was unexpected. Yet, I feel like the Menu really agreed with my particular tastes. I wanted to try so many things on the menu, but my lifelong devotion to Nachos guided my hand. 

Oscar's offers a single Nacho known as the "Muchos Nachos." It is comprised of a body of chips covered in cheese, Sour Cream, Salsa, Guacamole, green onions, and "Oscar's Famous Chilli." Despite them claiming it came with Guacamole, my Nachos did not come with Guacamole. I did not complain, as they were already being so polite and accommodating of our luggage. 

The first thing I noticed was that the portion size was quite good. Enough for a large meal for 1, or great to share between 2 and 4 people as an appetizer. I was worried, considering how expensive the Nacho was that it would be far too small. Another thing that stood out was all the grated cheese on top of the nacho was unmelted. The chilli was still quite warm, and over the next few minutes most of that cheese had mostly melted. The cheese on the lower chips was appropriately melted. The portion of Sour Cream was quite large and it tasted alright. Now, the Salsa and Chilli had kind of melded into a single mass of red chunkiness. As we discovered from a previous Nacho in Manchester, Salsa in the UK is very sweet and very tomato forward. It also has very little heat. Combined with the ground beef and sweetness of their chilli, I can say that it tasted far closer to a spaghetti or Bolognese sauce than chilli or salsa. Its true, I felt like I was eating Nachos covered in a very meat heavy spaghetti sauce. You know what the funniest part was? It wasn't bad. It was pretty enjoyable actually. I was still disappointed, as it wasn't what I had imagined in my head when I ordered, but I won't let that keep me from enjoying a good thing. So it was a tomato forward, sweet, spaghetti like Nacho. I'd eat it again, but I would definitely need to be in the moon.