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| - This is my first time in Pittsburgh and I yelped for top star rated restaurants in my area. It led me to Tako.
Walking up the store front, it looked very busy. All the tables outside and the bar top seating in front of the cooking area were full. The kitchen is right up in front with seating for about 6. If you decide to sit outside in front of the kitchen, you can enjoy your meal while watching the chefs assemble and prepare everyone's food. We initially thought those were the only seating available bc the door to the actual restaurant on the side of the kitchen didn't look very inviting. I thought it was an employee only door.
We finally walked in after attempting to glance inside for a few minutes and found ourselves in a very dimly lit room with a bar that lined the whole right side of the restaurant, high top tables on all the left and a stairway in the back that led you upstairs to more tables. There were two large red chandeliers that hung from the ceiling and lighting featuring octopus tentacles all along the wall.
At 7pm on a Wednesday night they were all booked up for inside seating until 10pm. The host took down our phone number and told us outside seating will be available in an hour and 15 minutes. We decided to wait since the restaurant was so highly rated and there was a car show outside that night that could keep us entertained.
An hour later, we were back after a text from the restaurant and we were actually seated inside. Since it was so dark inside, I actually had a hard time helping myself into my high top seating. I swear I was going to step on the wrong thing and fall.
After struggling into my seat, the waiter greeted us quickly and handed us two newspapers and 2 sheets of papers. Their menu is actually printed on the newspaper and one sheet of paper had the choices for your personalized guac and the other had their specialty cocktails and food specials. We ordered the #5 off the guac menu which was a crab meat guacamole with mango and we added pepitos to give it a nice kick. The guac came quickly with freshly fried chips. The chips were not greasy at all and the crab meat blending very well with the taste of the avocados. The taste of the mangos were very light, it just gave the guac a nice hint of sweetness. Only thing was, they can be a bit heavy handed with the salt.
We also order grilled tuna tacos, Korean short rib tacos and chicken asada tacos. 2 to an order and we liked the tuna and Korean short rib the best. The tuna was perfectly seared with spicy mayo drizzled on top. And the short rib tacos was made a thick sauce on a bed of lightly pickled veggies. I do have to say, those were a bit salty also. The chicken tacos were good too but the other two just had the perfect combo for your taste buds.
We were too full to get dessert but fiance got a mule and I had a sip. Was a bit sweeter than most mules but you can taste the fresh lime juice with the ginger beer. I liked the sweetness so it was good to me.
One guac, 6 tacos and a mule came out to $86 which is a bit expensive for tacos but I guess you're also paying for the ambience and decor.
Oh and the music choice was quite interesting too. Drake and the Weeknd... don't get me wrong, I loved the music. Just not the music I thought they would play for such a hipster-ish type establishment.
And sorry it was too dark to get pictures of the food. Didn't want to be that one person to make the whole place light up bc of the flash on my phone.
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