Taco Taco

User Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

We'd love to see this place get it right.: We went in March 2007 after we saw this restaurant featured on Bobby Flay's show. The restaurant is set up for dining only, and does not have a bar where I can go to enjoy the 2 things they do well there: Margaritas and guacamole.
Give them a while to figure out their chips & salsa problem, and their dry pork and boiled beef problem. We'd love to see this place turn it around. They have so many of the elements that would turn this place into a superstar if they could just get their food right.
The reastaurant is cosy and quaint: decorated with mexican artifacts with bright colored walls with posters of hot chillis. (They were setting up to film for another show when we got there.) The margaritas are excellent (on the rocks, with or without salt - $8) They serve them in wine glasses with a straw. The tableside guacamole is also excellent (and its only $8) ... However, that's where the excellence ended. I had the taco plate ($10 for 2 tacos with the usual rice and beans.) The pork (carnitas) in the tacos was dry, the beef (carne asada) was bland it tasted and looked boiled rather than grilled. The quesadilla was nice and cheesy and the tortilla holding it together had the perfect texture (hard to do) but alas...there was boiled tasting beef inside wrecking an otherwise perfect dish.
This restaurant needs to immediately fix its huge chips and "salsa" problem (Stale chips made who knows when served with a "salsa" which was nothing more than sweetened tomato sauce (probably out of a can and meant for marinara sauce.) Come on people, its not that difficult to chop up tomatoes or tomatillos, onion, cilantro and jalapenos, and its not that time consuming to fry up a new batch of chips once an hour (No-one needs a huge box with more than a days worth of chips...they get stale that way!)
About us: Were Mexican food nuts (we've lived in LA and Texas for 7 years, and spent a lot of time in Mexico (on the border and in Mexico City and Oaxaca.) And we are on the search for the best mexican food in Manhattan... We'll keep looking.

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User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

A hidden treasure: I hesitate to write a review because the prices are so cheap...I don't want it to get too crowded. However, it has been around for a while and is known as a terrific place. The tacos and sangria are great!

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