El Mercadito Review

// Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 10:33 am GMT -5 // Food, Personal

El Mercadito is a new, elegant mexican tapas restaurant next to Sugar Cane in Midtown (another tapas place). Great ambience, music, etc. A perfect place for a nice date or for a group of friends to have some tequila shots – which they have plenty of a selection. Everything except Patron which according to the bartender, they purposely don’t carry due to their farming practices. A move I respect without explanation. Mixed drinks were also a delight. We had “El Pirata” which was a concoction of beer, tequila, spices and pineapple. Our waitress (whose name unfortunately I can’t remember) was awesome. Honest about everything, passionate, knowledgeable, I go on and on about her.

On to food. TACOS!!! Such good tacos. You get 4 tiny tacos per order that are perfectly well balanced with flavors and spices on a corn tortilla. Specially the Shrimp. We had to even order another order of these before we left. CEVICHES was another hit. We ordered all three varieties (snapper, shrimp and mahi mahi) and all of them passed the test.

I would give them 5 stars except the GUACAMOLE wasn’t that great. We tried 3 different ones and none of them hit the spot. Rosa Mexicana’s is way better and according to my friends at the table, even I make a better one (I really do actually – pomegranates and mango – I digress).The other flaw was dessert. Highly disappointed although they were working on it and we gave them honest feedback on their Creme Burlee – Pineapple – Foam mashup. Looking forward to visiting them again real soon.

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