We'd heard of the place and wanted to check it out. It's located in a restaurant in a small strip mall off Montgomery Ave that used to be a long time established taqueria that closed down. The place was clean and nicely remodeled with a little bar section open at one end. We went to the bar side as it was pretty full in the main restaurant part and loud and we wanted to hear each other talk. Where we say we had this little windows bite into a team of 3 or 4 chefs cooking away. My daughter and i were greeted by a very friendly waitress who sat us and gave us menus and we ordered coffee first as it was Sunday afternoon and we'd missed out coffee earlier. Nice start, but then the coffee was not quite hot enough but tolerable. I figured I'd get another refill soon that would probably be hotter. Meanwhile we ordered food. We were not overly starving so we got a lighter meal of the Burria beef tacos (comes with 3 for $14, so we ordered an extra 1 for $5 so we could have two each). They had several other type tacos that look good but they don't allow mix and match. It does not come with chips, you must order separately, nice quality homemade chips (smallish size) that comes with about1/3 cup serving pico de gallo sauce for $8, then they'll give you a sample of their two hot sauces for free, a creamy habanero, which is spicy, but just ok flavor wise, definitely better than their green mild salsa that tastes like it came out of a can. The pico de gallo is fresh snd very average, not bad at all, just nothing unusual. The tacos were tasty. But the refill of coffee never came till we finished eating and she asked if we acted to top it off. I said yes please and was poured a lukewarm cup o joe that tasted like it had been sitting a while. She forgot the half n half which is how i take my coffee. The first time she only brought a shot size mini pitcher of the precious cream which was barely enough for two cups to use! Anyway the cold coffee put a damper on the whole experience. I'd been looking at the breakfast menu for the future which looks good but you definitely gotta have good coffee. $8 for our two coffees, should have been her tip. Just could not give that big a tip, sorry because we were kind of forgotten. The experience with the coffee just made me think more about our tacos and sauce. While they were good, the whole thing was over priced. We paid $40 before tip for 4 average / small size regular tacos, a side of 1/2 avocado ($3), two regular refillable lukewarm warm old coffees($8), and the small order of chips with salsa($8). It would have been just as good and much less expensive at other places featuring Mexican food and we have some of the best Mexican food around in this town. Note, this is NOT the same or any connection with the other Parkside cafe in town. That place is called Dierk's Parkside cafe and is a whole other incredible culinary experience. read more