My review here will be a bit limited because, well frankly, I was drunk when I got here and it was really used as a place to continue the night and absorb the alcohol at the same time. A bunch of us ended up here after seeing our friend Jill play a show at Rockwood Music Hall and we were all starving. This place was around the corner and Mexican food really is the perfect food to have after a few drinks.
Fair warning about this place, it's about the size of my bathroom. It probably didn't help that we were a group of 6 people, so that made it doubly hard to get a seat. We shoved our selves at the "bar" and ordered some guacamole and margaritas while we waited for our table. The place is your classic Lower East Side joint with really loud music and really loud people, so don't come here thinking that you're going to have a nice quiet night out. We finally got a table and the menu here is perfect for a night out: lots of different kinds of cheap tacos, quesadillas, enchiladas, and platos. We ordered more margaritas and guacamole (solid guacamole) and split the mushroom quesadilla ($5) and the ham and cheese quesadilla ($5.95) among the group. For myself, I ordered the barbacoa tacos ($3) and the carnitas tacos ($3). The ham and cheese quesadilla was your classic gooey cheese and ham in between a warm flour tortilla. It was a good start to whet the palate. But the mushroom one was not what we thought it was going to be. It's on a corn tortilla but instead of it being flat, it was deep fried and served like an puffy empanadas. Totally not what we expected and honestly I wasn't a huge fan of it. As for my tacos, they were the ideal food for the night. They are served with two soft shells and really jammed packed with ingredients. It seemed like there was almost a pound of shredded pork inside, topped with salsa, onion and cilantro - it was my favorite of the two tacos. The barbacoa (lamb) taco seemed a bit dry and didn't have the same flavor and juiciness of the pork one. By the end of the night, I was stuffed and the total bill was only $134 for 6 people! Love it! This is a great place if you're looking to sop up the alcohol or just getting started and need to coat your stomach with some great cheap food.
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