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| - I'm with Jona - I don't think Clevelanders (?) know what a good taco tastes like.
I was very excited to try this place when visiting, as I am from Texas and the place lists itself as "Tex-Mex." First of all, hell to the nah, they are NOT tex-mex. Not even some kind of bastardized version, either.
Let's start with that so-called queso. It's a blend of chihuahua (yes) and cheddar (NO). Never in a million years would you make a queso with cheddar - it's responsible for that gritty texture, because it's not meant to be melted in quantity. There are so many better Mexican cheeses to be used for queso, and if Mexican is too exotic for a Mexican restaurant, there's always Velveeta (seriously, many of us make queso from Rotel and Velveeta, poor man's queso, if you will).
On to the tacos. They are really expensive, given their size. Almost everything on the menu has a pickled (read: very vinegar) item on it, which is a bit strange. I was pleased to see double corn tortillas, but the consistency was wrong for corn (too gelatinous). The fillings weren't much better. Mole should knock your socks off with flavor, yet there was hardly any flavor to be found on the chicken mole taco. I could apply that critique to all the tacos - if you focused really hard, you might detect a drive-by of a flavor, but not anything that lingers too long. They were like an integral approaching flavor but never quite reached it.
Lastly, there's the bill...way too much money for not flavorful, tiny tacos.
Oh crap, I forgot one of the most important parts - the ambience was SO bizarre! Is this how Midwesterners think of Texas or Mexico? The interior was nice and forward and on the hipster side, but old country blasted while the TVs ran Tombstone. It was really confusing.
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