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| - Sorry Torito - you missed the mark.
Looked forward to visiting Torito based on Yelp reviews. As others have stated the ambiance is very nice well decorated, with a laid back kind of feel, which is its only saving grace.
The food - we ordered the specials of the day, cheek and tongue tacos ($16) and the chicken sliders ($12).
So lets start with the tacos, I would consider myself an "adventurous eater" as I would not generally shy away from eating tongue BUT and its a big BUT, it needs to be 1. cooked well and 2. have some good ol' flavour going on. Fortunately the meat was pretty melt in your mouth, however tasted like... wait for it.... nothing, A BIG OLD NOTHING!! The corn tortillas had more flavour!
Next chicken sliders!! small bite sized deliciousness in a fresh brioche bun, aioili, haloumi cheese how can you go wrong?? I was imagining 3 beautiful little brioche buns with an glistening egg wash with a wonderfully seasoned chicken patty a piece of grilled haloumi, a wonderful aioili and something for freshness... sorry its nothing like we described, the bread was dark and dry... very dry... the chicken was over cooked, not sure where the haloumi was, maybe ground into the chicken? a wee bit of butter lettuce which didn't add any freshness as the slider was drenched in aioili.... unfortunate... could have been a great slider.
Would never go back based on quality not being able to match up to the price, would much rather hit up the El Trompo down the street for much less.
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