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| - Came here as a party of 11 and I made a booking, which would highly recommend as it got busy. So there were some misses with this place for me, service and ambiance wise, which is why it's not a full 5-stars. Our server messed up some orders, drinks were a looong time coming (and some didn't come at all until our server was reminded again and again!)
For drinks, I got the House Sangria. It was actually quite good, but I wanted more fruit and especially more pieces of the baby mandarin in my drink. I also took a sip of the spicy margarita that a co-diner order and gosh dang it - that was way too spicy for me as it incorporated freshly chopped jalapeño!! You have been warned!!!!
I also ordered an entree of corn chips and salsa - asked for the red sauce (thanks to Yelper Bradford M for that tip). When it came out, it had the green salsa which I definitely did not like as it had a weird aftertaste. I also didn't really enjoy the red one which was too smoky for my palate. Both the salsas had a sort of heavy bitterness which turned me off.
However the saving grace from an appetizer point of view was the Queso dip. Now I will admit that I did not want to order this dip because seeing the yelp pictures it felt like it was going to be that fake plastic cheese that you seem to get in most American restaurants, so I was pleasantly surprised by this Queso dip which was fresh and bursting with a great medley of flavors. I would absolutely recommend getting this for an appetizer.
For my taco variety, I decided to get the following:
-Pork belly pastor: this is the one I was most excited to try but the fact that the pork belly was cut up into small pieces meant that some pieces had too much fat and some pieces had too much chewy belly. I also wasn't of a huge fan of the seasoning. Ranked #2 for me.
- Cochinita pibil: absolutely my favorite of the night and I almost didn't get its as it was an afterthought! That achiote braised pork was AMAZING!! Spicy taste, tender pork, perfect medley of flavours. Ranked #1 for me.
- Hongos: I love me some mushrooms and the thought of them in a taco I thought would be perfect. However this turned out to be a major disappointment. Similar to the pork belly, the portobello mushroom was chopped up into small pieces which made it difficult to eat and pieces of the mushroom kept falling onto my plate. I also thought the variety of mushroom used with the corn tortilla were just not compatible and in the end, I left the corn tortilla on my plate and just ate the portobello mushroom pieces with some chips. Ranked #3 for me.
Btw, a lot of my co-diners heavily praised the Short Rib Tostadas, but I didn't taste so can't comment. Also for a table of 11 that wanted to talk, the music was super loud and so conversations were mostly with folks sitting next to you. Frankly I'd only ever come here again if I didn't want to speak to my co-diners....
Note: #326 of Yelp 100 challenge for 2016
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