"1"^^ . "1"^^ . . . "Short version: Whatever you do, don't order the birria. (Unless you're only here to warm yr flu chills with some hot meat broth.)\n\nSilver lining: Have a pupusa.\n\nLong version: Was really excited to try this place after recommendation from friends and since the reviews were so good on Yelp. Was hoping it would become a go-to taco place in Toronto.\n\nMe and my dining companion are gigantic fans of Mexican birria and were excited to see a goat version on the menu under \"soups,\" so we started thinking about foregoing the tacos. I asked the waiter about the portion - you never know when something labeled \"soup\" is going to be meal-sized or what. The waiter didn't provide any info, so I made a decision based on the price - and since the soup is $11.00 - one of the more pricey things on the menu, apart from the dinner platters - I assumed this soup would be substantial enough for lunch. I wrongly assumed that this birria would be very meaty - like Mexican birria usually is - meat with broth ladled over it, usually served in a low dish.\n\nThis birria was served in a deep soup bowl. We were given a few cut limes and some warm tortillas on the side. The broth was very flavorful and contained some diced onions. But once I started fishing around for meat in the broth, I came up mostly empty. I got about 3 big chunks of bone with some scraps of meat and fat hanging off of that. And this definitely isn't a complaint about the existence of bones and fat in my soup - I love them both. The problem was that there was no meat to speak of in my soup, and what morcels there were were dry and tough. This \"birria\" soup gives birria a bad name. And quite a sad offering for $11.00. And while the side tortillas were warm, they were the usual bland factory-made ones. This lacklustre commitment to meat and to tortillas dashed our taco hopes.\n\nThe waiter asked how the soup was, and I responded honestly as above: I was disappointed there wasn't more meat in it, that it was pretty much bones and fat, that it seemed a bit expensive for mostly broth. He commiserated by making a disappointed look, too, but that was all.\n\nSince we were still starving after all that hot broth, I asked to see the menu again. We each ordered a pupusa (cheese, beans, chorizo) ($3.40 each). These were pretty good, and came with the usual shredded cabbage and dixie cup of tomato sauce. The negative here (more comedic, really) was that the pupusas were served with plastic cutlery on a plastic plate with holes in it in a waffle design, making the hot pupusa impossible to cut.\n\nThe place is cute and relaxed, but served us a less than mediocre lunch for two for $32."^^ . "2017-04-08T00:00:00"^^ . "0"^^ . . "2"^^ .