Joe Flacco is settling into Cincinnati one meal at a time, and now fans know exactly what landed on his table at Cantina.
A few weeks after arriving in the city, the Bengals quarterback said he had been making solo restaurant runs while his family stayed in New Jersey. He brought that up during an Oct. 22 press conference, explaining that he had been eating out by himself as part of the adjustment to life in Cincinnati.
One of those stops was Cantina, a modern Mexican restaurant in Pendleton. Flacco first mentioned the spot on the “Fitz & Whit” podcast with former NFL players Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Whitworth on Oct. 22, saying the food “was good,” but he didn’t get into the details of what he ordered.
That changed on Netflix’s “Quarterback,” where Flacco, one of the four stars in the third season, walked Orlando Brown Jr. through the full meal.
“I went and sat at a place called Cantina. It was like a little Mexican spot,” Flacco told Brown during an episode. Brown told the quarterback he loved the restaurant and asked if he got the fajita plate.
Flacco said he passed on that and went with a bigger spread.
“I got some tacos, and I got like these beans, I got these Mexican beans. Mexican rice and beans and like charro beans.
And then I got a ceviche, too,” he said. “I went as soon as it opened, so nobody else would be there.
There was like two other people there.”
So if anyone wants to eat like Flacco, the order is now on the record.
All eight episodes of “Quarterback” season 3 were released on Netflix on Tuesday.
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