When you arrive here it doesn't seem like you are at the right place, it just seems like a bar. When you go in there is a door in the back of the bar and it leads to a small dining room in the back with about ten tables in it. The room is very poorly lit with pub style tables. It is seat yourself and first come, there are menus on the table. The menu is small and reasonably priced, mostly tacos and tortillas.
After looking over the menu we placed our orders and received our tortillas and guacamole a few minutes later. The chips were freshly fried and still warm when they were brought out. I love a salty tortilla chip and these were very well salted. I am not a huge fan of guacamole but I must say it was pretty good, it was creamy with a hint of lime and jalapenos on top if you like some heat.Our tacos came out about ten minutes later, my wife and I ordered three different kinds of tacos. They are about the same size of your standard make at home tacos, so three each filled us up. They come in pairs and average about $7.50. We got the Taco de Pescado (Mahi Mahi), Taco de Carnitas (Slow Roasted Pork) and Taco de Puerco (Pork Belly). My cousin got the Tamales and the Tacos De Huitlacoche (Corn Truffle).
The Mahi Mahi was really god they were coated in tempura batter and fried, then topped with crema, cabbage and radish. The fish was cooked golden brown and crispy, the crema and cabbage gave it a bit of a sour and bitter taste too which paired well with the fish. The Roasted Pork tacos were the best on the table, tender pork topped with cool cucumber and a squirt of lime made it perfect. All the flavors just flowed right with this one. Now for the Pork Belly, the one I saved for last because I was most excited to try this one. Awful, look I know pork belly is fatty but this was pure lard with very little meat. My wife ate it all, she thought it was supposed to taste like that. My cousin and I had a good laugh about that. It was disgusting and I thought it couldn't get much worse but then I tried my cousins tacos, but we will get there soon.First to her Tamales, they were good, you got two huge chicken tamales for $7.00. They came out wrapped in the corn husk and were moist. The masa was creamy and the chicken and queso fresco all blended together very well. My only complaint would be that it needed something, some type of seasoning in it. It came with a salsa verde that tasted pretty good so I guess all together it worked well. Now for her tacos, disgusting, they were some type of corn truffle, which I have never heard of. The toppings on it was corn and potatoes but that didn't help anything. I tried them after my cousin did and I should have trusted her reaction. Needless to say I will trust her facial expressions from now on. The texture of the taco was mush on mush, even the corn and potatoes by themselves just tasted bad. We tried each component by itself and all together to see if we were missing something, we weren't. These tacos were some of the worst tasting things I have ever placed in my mouth.
Would I go back? Possibly, but I do have to say Piccolo Forno is right across the street for right around the same price. If you want authentic Mexican and you know what you like then this place is good, but I do know I normally like pork belly. In the end I know I would have preferred the place across the street, but I always want to try something new.
Overall 6.5 of 10
Food 5.5 of 10
Price 7 of 10
Service 7 of 10
3720 Butler St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
