3 tacos for $6.75 on a drizzly Saturday. What could possibly go wrong? The answer, in case you're wondering, was served up in a frayed straw basket from the Burrito Place at Yonge and Finch..
The tacos were made with cold flour tortillas and a little more than half the filling (pork, but they also have the usual beef and chicken, plus fish and soy) you'd expect in a standard-issue taqueria. Main ingredient was clearly the chopped iceberg lettuce, followed by some chunks of tomato (not bad) and a sprinkling of a shredded orange-and-white cheeselike product. This was dosed in a very sweet version of the sour cream-based sauce found on Baja-style fish tacos.
Bottom line: cloying, bland and utterly devoid of the rich, complex flavor that makes Mexican food so popular worldwide. I asked for hot sauce, and received a ghost pepper concoction that was plenty hot, but also flavorless and apparently pointlessly sweetened too.
On the plus side, both the folks working there were pleasant and there's a cute mural on the wall. Just don't go there for the food.
So just how bad was it? Let's put it this way: when I got home an hour later I went immediately to the kitchen and made a quesadilla with a couple healthy jolts of Cholula, just to get that sickly sweet taste out of my mouth.