So just to get this out of the way, I didn't really like this place. It smelled pretty gnarly in there and the food seemed kinda old - like sitting around in a heat tray all day kinda old, but that's as descriptive as I'm going to be because A) I don't claim to be or want to be a food critic (not in this blog at least) and B) a couple friends of mine really like this place and since they usually have pretty good taste, I'm just going to chalk my bad experience up to first-timer's bad luck.
El Taquito is one of those places that, once you get inside, makes you feel like you could walk out the front door and be in any city in the US and almost any country in the world - it's universal... but it's also totally Tex-Mex.
They've got cheap tacos galore and enchilada plates with the most quintessential brown, pasty refried beans and bright orange Spanish rice (Come to think of it, why is Spanish rice often orange? And why is it called "Spanish" rice?).
Then there's the salsa bar. Win.
Basically all that means is I choose the meat, they'll put a bunch of cheese on a tortilla and fry both sides, including the cheese side, on the grill. That way the cheese melts and gets all crispified on the top. See the brown part that kinda looks like bacon? Yeah that's crispy beautiful cheese. Absolute greasy genius. Why doesn't anyone else do that? They also have a Jalapeño relleno taco. Again, brilliant.
www.eltaquito.com
El Taquito
1713 E Riverside Dr
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