This week’s restaurant: Mariscos Los Enrique’s, 812 Mountain Ave. (at Mission), Ontario.

I had to get down to Mountain below Holt for the “Moutain” photo earlier this week — Councilman Jim Bowman had given me the tip, btw — and I went at lunchtime, figuring I’d find a restaurant in the area. Continuing south to Mission, I found Mission Plaza, a strip center fronted by a Jack in the Box, on the southwest corner. The center also turned out to be home to Mariscos Los Enrique’s, a Mexican seafood restaurant. Bingo!

The interior is rather nice: big broad windows, a large dining area and four colorful murals, two of them quite large, with beach or ocean scenes featuring sharks, crabs, octopi, catfish and other of our undersea friends. Tables have Coronita cartons with various hot sauces in the slots that once held bottles.

The menu is heavy on seafood items. You could go crazy and get a large, $105 party platter of shrimp, scallops, calamari, crab legs, etc. More reasonably, they have various shrimp, fish fillet and octopus dishes from $9 to $13, plus an array of soups, tacos, burritos, tostadas and appetizers, and breakfast items too.

My server brought out thick tortilla chips, a sinus-clearing salsa, lime wedges and a small plate of fried catfish chunks on cucumber slices, speared with toothpicks. I ordered a catfish sauteed in garlic ($9.75).

The result was a whole fish, which was deep-fried — that was the other option and apparently the server misunderstood my choice. But the result was quite good, the skin pleasingly crunchy, the meat tender. It came with beans, rice, a mix of diced tomatoes and onions, and corn tortillas. It was a satisfying meal.

Life doesn’t often take me to Mission and Mountain, but it’s nice to know there’s a good restaurant down there.