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| - So it seems that my three primary food missions in this city are to find the best pizza, barbecue and tacos/Mexican around.
To this extent I have done a lot of taco eating in Toronto (okay that sounds dirty, but seriously, grow up) and this place would be somewhere in the middle of the pack for me.
On my last visit here my DC and I split a mix of carnita and Al Pastor tostadas and tacos.
The tostadas were fine but covered in too much iceberg lettuce and sour cream; they also ultimately fall well short of my personal benchmark ie. the brilliant tinga tostadas they serve at Agave Y Aquate. The tacos were served in double tortillas (which is authentic) and the meats used in both (ie. the carnitas and El Pastor) were quite flavourful if a bit too greasy.
I do have one serious beef with this place however and it is that for a place with salsa in the name Mexican Salsas sure cheaps out on the stuff. I asked for the spicy salsa on my order (and it had 5 chili peppers beside it on the sign, you heard me, five!) and a) it was so stingily applied to my food that it didn't even really register until the third or fourth bite and b) wasn't that spicy.
I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt here and chalk it up to the server trying to protect what he felt must have been my weak white boy sensibilities but for future reference, the next time I go into an ostensibly authentic Mexican place and ask for the spiciest salsa on the menu I expect my lips to sweat, my scalp to itch and my mood to switch from amiable to downright anti-social. Is that so much to ask?
Anyway folks, ultimately this place is still good and it would be a toss up, along with La Tortilleria, as the best backup place to get solid, inexpensive Mexican food in Kensington when you don't want to go to El Trompo or Agave.
Also in fairness, I hear the burritos are great, but I'm a taco man through and through and have not tried them.
3 out of 5.
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