I have driven past this taqueria/carnicería twice a day on my way to/from work since I started…read moreworking over on the Westside and had never stopped in. Yet, one day when I drove by I knew I had to get some serious Mexican food - and when I walked in I knew this was the spot. There is the most incredible smell before you even hit the door, and when you get through the entryway you find a grocery store loaded up with everything you could want to cook and include in a meal from south of the border. But what if you just want to eat? What if you don't need some eclectic candies and spices? Or, even better - what if you want some meat to cook yourself? You go on to the left and walk up to the deli counter!
Ordering two dinners (one for me and one for my girlfriend), I got grilled chicken and steak, each dish had options for rice and beans, so I just decided to do a full sample of basically everything so we could each try what they offer. So by the end we had white rice with various veggies (which seemed to come from just a random bag of frozen vegetables, there were lima beans, broccoli, cauliflower, corn) and spanish rice, Black and pinto beans, two giant chunks of each type of meat, two halves of a potato, and 6 corn tortillas each dinner.... As you can tell these were GIANT take out containers. I think they would have broken in half if I didn't support them on the bottom, these things were LOADED. I'll be honest... I combined all the sides together, mixed them up, and we ended up getting two meals a piece out of all this food. I wish I had thought to snap a picture of all of it before we started digging in, but I managed to set aside the meat, take a look at that if you want to get hungry. So then how was it?
Absolutely delicious! The chicken and potatoes had so much seasoning on them that I honestly thought the potatoes were sweet potatoes because they were so orange. Fortunately the seasoning was INCREDIBLE, there was spice, there was flavor, and it was all harmonious. The meat was cooked about perfectly (I think the steak was a little fatty so it could have been cooked longer to try and drip some of that off), and the tortillas tasted like they might have actually been home-made, not the uniform shapes and thickness of a factory press. I LOVE Mexican food, I could eat it every single day. But it's hard for me to be truly impressed, I mean even bad Mexican is still pretty good, like have you ever had an awful taco? I don't think they exist. This place though, this place reminds you that Mexican food can go beyond "not bad." Don't believe me? Swing by with a $20 and get 4 meals, a ton of starches, and a new addiction.
