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We had a friend in town and were nervous to take him anywhere for dinner, since we've had nothing but crap food dressed up as Artisanal Local Fresh Handmade since we got here. I'm not saying we need anything fancy, but jeeeeeeez it's been hard to find much that's even edible as we wade through the forest of well-reviewed plates of barf that is the Cleveland food scene. So we told him we were sorry in advance if dinner sucked super hard, then we took a deep breath and tried Momocho.
Hoo doggies! Smiles all around! Beers and micheladas were ordered, arriving at the table beautifully cold and mixed to perfection. At first glance, the guac mixtures seemed weird, but we tried the one with pecorino, black pepper, and roasted garlic. We also ordered the smoked gouda tamale dumplings, and I thought we were going to have to rumble over the last little bits of everything on the table. The waitress brought more chips when she took our taco orders, and we ordered the carnitas and the brisket tacos.
Everything arrived after a short wait, and things are done a bit differently here in that your protein is served very hot with sides of guac or salsa which compliment the spices in it, and your tortillas come on the side as well (steaming hot, thank you very much!), so you put it all together yourself. The menu says that one entree portion is enough for five tacos, but I'd say it's enough for about eight, depending on what you order. It would be great if there were more tortillas so you could double up for those more saucy fillings that leak through, but no matter. If we had it to do over again, we would have planned better and we each would have ordered a different filling so we could try more, but we shared our two huge portions of carnitas and single portion of brisket around the table and both of them were really good. Next time, we'll try the shrimp, mahi mahi, and tinga tacos, and maybe the achiote creamed corn (which is, from what I can tell from pictures, a take on elotes). And next time I am *definitely* getting a margarita flight. Maybe two! Because I want at least 5 glasses to raise to this 5 star dining experience, which has renewed my faith in trying new things in this city.
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