A very difficult place to rate, especially since all of my ratings are based on food alone. Slow Tacos is different as value for money has to be taken into consideration. So, here we go:
- Taste of food: 2-3 stars mostly.
- Value for money: ZERO!!! This is the most expensive taco joint on the entire planet!!!
Here are the details:
- Homemade chili Kaesekrainer (cheese stuffed sausage) tacos - 3 stars and I'm being generous. Mostly bland and weird. Basically a breakfast sausage in a taco - wow, I wonder how actual Mexicans never came up with this novel idea!
- Beef Short Ribs with Chimichurri tacos - 2.5 stars, and the .5 is because of chimichurri, otherwise it would be 2 stars. The beef is chewy, seriously over-done and without chimichurri mostly tasteless. That said, yet another novel idea - put chimichurri sauce (NOT Mexican!) on a beef taco??? Seriously? And it has something that resembles a jalapeno on top but tastes like a regular green pepper. Again, trying to be original but it is just plain weird.
- Corn fed chicken with Chipotle marmalade and peanuts tacos - 3.5 stars but again weird because of the peanuts - remember all of this is served on a corn tortilla, so not the best combination if you ask me. And so not Mexican and/or authentic by any stretch of the imagination chipotle marmalade? WTF? That said, possibly the best taco on the menu.
- Cheese tacos - 1 star. Melted wrong kind of cheese with avocado mousse and sweet roasted peppers. Really disappointing. And for only EUR 13.90 ($17)!!!
- Chips and Guacamole - 3 stars for the taste of guac, very mild and no kick. 1.5 stars on the chips that are seasoned with some kind of bbq dry seasoning/rub - again WTF?? This is absolutely, hands down, the most expensive chips and guac in the world! For EUR 7.90 (US$ 10), not made table side and served in a shot glass sized thingy, it's absolutely ridiculous! TINY & EMBARRASSING!!! Yes, it's probably less than 1 oz of guac for $10.
- Churros and Chocolate - 3 stars, mostly mah. Churros are supposed to melt in your mouth and these were over-fried, the chocolate was too bitter and just like all of the above combinations, it didn't work!
- Corn tortillas - 2 stars - they didn't feel fresh and home made.
Now to the value for money - as said, you have to be completely nuts, to pay EUR 13.90 (almost $17) for three tiny tacos that don't come with any sides (like rice and beans for example). Basically, this place is 2-3 times more expensive than it should be, if it served great tacos. For these kind of tacos, they are approximately 5 times more expensive of where they should be.
So, we paid more than $100 for 12 small tacos (no side dishes), 2 beers, 2 lemonades, one coffee, one shot glass of guac with some chips and a small order of churros. None of this would be a problem if their tacos were great, which they were not. This is one taco joint I won't return to. read more