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| - I'm a bit of a taco purist (originally being from Southern California and my favorite being a strictly traditional taco al pastor with nothing more than cilantro, onion, and a medium-hot salsa roja) and I'm also always complaining to people about the lack of authentic (and good) Mexican food in Pittsburgh (aside from the street tacos at the Reyna taco stand), so I went in here with guarded expectations.
It's not strictly traditional (though it is influenced by authentic street tacos), but man, is it yummy.
I ordered three tacos: the pork, the spicy beef, and the daily special, a chipotle chicken. They came out about five minutes after I placed my order and were definitely made to order.
All three were quite delivious and distinctly different from each other.
The spicy beef was the most Americanized of them. It's in a single medium-taco-sized flour tortilla that's been lightly griddled and filled with ground beef and topped with lettuce, tomatoes, shredded yellow cheese, a creamy sauce, and several jalapeno slices.
The pork was on a pair of corn tortillas (about the same size as the flour) and had slightly crispy carnitas in it topped with tomatoes, onion, cilantro, the creamy sauce, and a light dusting of crumbled white cheese (not sure if it was actually Cotija).
The chipotle chicken was similar to the carnitas, except it omitted the tomato, making it the least non-traditional of the bunch.
That said, for what they are (doctored-up street tacos), they were done very, very well. The meat in all three cases (even the ground beef, which I normally eschew as too bland and Americanized) was moist and flavorful, and the creamy sauce (I think they call it "Bullseye Sauce") added a wonderfully buttery flavor to the ensemble. I'm not a small eater, and I had also skipped lunch, and the three I had was perfect for satiating me without overfilling me. (Of course, I had to get a waffle next door, which I ultimately probably didn't need to do...)
The sauce options are definitely non-traditional, though. There isn't a traditional salsa bar with homemade salsas (other than the Bullseye Sauce they add to each taco). There's an assortment of a few different kinds of bottled sauces. I think there may have been some Tapatio and one or two others, but the one that stood out to me was the giant-sized pump jug of Cholula green salsa, which worked well on all three of my tacos.
The price was, I felt, fair, at $3 per taco. That might be a little more than street tacos elsewhere, but not much more, and these were definitely more substantial than most $2ish street tacos (where I'd need at least four to fill me up), and some of the added
This will definitely be a place I return to, perhaps even frequently, given its convenient location, reasonably quick service (though not instant), and fair pricing.
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