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| - After hearing great reviews about this restaurant, I decided to give it a try since I was in the neighbourhood.
First thing to note would be that the parking situation is not ideal. There is no parking lot and you have to either park on a residential street and walk 5 minutes to the restaurant or park at the No Frills or McDonald's across the street and risk getting towed or ticketed.
We visited on a Thursday night and the restaurant had a few tables occupied. We were given a menu and water promptly.
After looking over the menu, we settled on a Tostada and 5 different tacos. Before the food arrived, the server came with two hot sauces and fresh lime to squeeze on the tacos. Both of the hot sauces were not very hot and it was hard to distinguish them from each other besides the colour.
Shrimp Ceviche Tostada ($5.99)
Fresh shrimp tossed in a citrus marinade with pico de gallo and two tiny slivers of avocado served on a crispy fried corn tortilla. This dish was quite bland and you could tell that it wasn't cured or marinaded long enough and was quickly tossed prior to serving, thus lacking flavour to be a real ceviche.
Carne Asada Tacos (2 for $6.49)
Marinade grilled beef, diced onion and cilantro. The beef was moist but lacked flavour, it seemed like it wasn't marinated but rather quickly seasoned.
Chorizo Tacos (2 for $6.49)
Chopped spicy sausage, diced onion and cilantro. These were the best tacos of the night as the chorizo were very flavourful and moist.
Al Pastor Tacos (2 for $6.49)
Adobo marinated grilled pork, grilled pineapple, diced onion and cilantro. Pork was bland and the pineapple didn't taste grilled and looked like it came straight from a can.
After eating these 3 tacos, we quickly realized that they weren't easily distinguishable from each other as they all were drowned with the diced onion and cilantro. It would have been nice if they each had different garnishes and more flavour in the meat.
We thought we'd give them another shot so we tried the Baja Tacos.
Baja Fish Taco (1 for $5.49)
Large piece of beer battered fish, pico de gallo, chipotle mayo and cilantro. These were quite tasty but the fish was not very crispy and it looked like the oil was a bit old as the batter on the fish was quite dark.
Baja Calamari Taco (1 for $5.49)
3 pieces of beer battered calamari, pico de gallo, chipotle mayo and cilantro. The calamari looked and tasted it came from frozen and were not home made. The batter fell off after biting a piece of calamari and tasted stale.
Overall, the different tacos all tasted very similar to each other as the garnishes were all the same. This place would get a better review if different garnishes were used, the meats were marinated or seasoned more and the oil was fresher. One positive was that the food is quite cheap as the entire bill with tax came to about $40.
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