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| - This review is for fish tacos ($9 for 4) and a small fish ceviche ($9) from the late night menu. The food was not half bad. I could tell these people know what they are doing. I could also tell they cut corners carefully to fit the prices. And I am fine with them, because their prices are reasonable/aggressive enough to justify them.
What I love:
1) They know how to make fish food, and the core things that they must do to call it good, namely they manage to maintain an acceptable level of freshness on a shoe string budget.
2) They pan fry the fish fillets, not deep frying them in a batter. They make damn good nachos in house. They reheat the corn tortillas by lightly pan frying them. I haven't seen this trick before, and they pull it off well. The tortillas are warm, taste fresh (or refreshed) enough, and are soft.
Corners cut:
1) They use non-meaty white fish, likely Basa, instead of meaty white fish. At just over $2/taco, I expect defrosted fish. No problem; even restaurants do. I must stress, though, the fish I had was not fishy or spoiled even at late night. The issue is this non-meaty white fish has no taste or texture, even though there is sufficient quantity of it.
2) Both tacos and ceviche have onion and cilantro as toppings only. No diced tomato, not even as a side topping on the spice tray. I love simple toppings in my fish tacos, yet missing the acidity of tomato is a big miss to me.
Mexitaco is a decent joint operated on a shoe string budget. There are better fish tacos and ceviche for sure, but I like them enough.
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