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| - Came for all the positive reviews on yelp but this place didn't really impress me.
First, their service is not bad but definitely lack of organization skills. We called the place at 5:30 or 6 pm, see if it's possible to make a reservation at 7pm. But we were told that the place gets really busy on a Thursday night, so they didn't let us make a reservation until 8:45 pm and surely that's so late for a dinner! So me and my friend decided to show up at 7:30 anyways, if we couldn't get a table we would dinning in elsewhere.
So we arrived the place at roughly 7:40, the dinning area (inside) was completely empty, and even the patio only has like 5 tables (two persons per table, so I0 customers?). I would not call this busy but perhaps they have a different definition in terms of busy.
The atmosphere though, is lovely. when you walked into the restaurant you would see most of the wall has hand paintings on. I found this pretty attractive. And sure this place would be a great spot to hang out and grab a drink.
It's nice weather so we sat at the patio, and between the two of us we had 5 tacos, two drinks and a guacamole to share. Their taco is average size and you probably would need 2-3 tacos to make enough for a meal.
Let's start with the guacamole ($8). I think it's a little pricy but I like how they had pomegranate seed in it, love that touch of sweetness. I found the chips thou, is a little too hard, but it's free to refill!! And I do end up liking the guacamole more than the tacos they served.
They only serve corn tortillas shell. And they only served two tacos at a time (one for each of us) so the table wouldn't be filled with plates as the tables there are tiny.
We had Bistec (sirloin), Carnitas (pork shoulder), Barbacoa (braised lamb), Camarones (shrimps) and Pescado (beer battered branzino, fried fish).
I think both Carnitas (pork shoulder) $5 and Barbacoa (braised lamb) $6.5, had the best value and they also tasted the best. Chunks of juicy meat, and the lime juice balanced out the flavour. But the lamb taste is a little plain, need a pint of salt perhaps to kick the fav more.
Bistec (sirloin) $7, slightly pricy. With this price I expected there would be a little bit more meat or the meat were not so grounded. They chopped up the meat into very small pieces, but I guess this is how people make authentic Mexican taco? But the most surprising part is, I'm pretty sure I ordered the non spicy one. But one bite of this taco surely burnt my month and stomach. I admit I have a very low tolerance, but maybe they should warn others that even the non spicy sirloin taco is sort of spicy?
Camarones (shrimp) $7, the shrimp didn't came in a whole pieces but they chopped it up into small pieces! And the portion they gave this time was nothing like what the others post on yelp before. I'm sure there is probably only 2.5 -3 small shrimp in the taco. But that's not the worst part, this taco was another fire in the mouth. It was so spicy I couldn't even tastes what's in the taco honestly. They should really adjust the spicy level.
Lastly we had the Pescado (beer battered branzino, fried fish) $8. I think $8 is pretty pricey for taco and also because it didn't taste great. The deep fried layer was so hard, it's almost like chewing fried cardboard. And pink pickle radish on top was super sour! I didn't like this at all. But I guess it was a mistake to order fried fish in a Mexican place, although the taco itself looks gorgeous.
I cannot say I'm a big fan of Mexican food or I really know what's authentic Mexican food, but I know next time if I want taco I would go seven lives and or else where. Just because they have better value. But this place for sure it's still a great spot to hang out.
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