Mike L.
Yelp
tl;dr: No flavor, no go.
Honestly, when I was thinking about writing the review as I was eating...It was 3 stars for me. While writing it a day later, I really don't know what's going on here with their tacos or meat. This establishment needs to up their game in a food court with so many options.
If you're going to have Guy Fieri's autographed poster on the wall, it better taste like how he tried that shit in da kitchen. I didn't taste what he did; all I got was unflavored meat with two tortillas and a poor excuse of a salsa.
I got three tacos just to try their meat because I was already full, Belly & Snout already has established itself in 2014, so I had to give them a go. First, where's the flavor??? The pork belly barely, if at all, had any flavor in terms of marinade, braise, brushed, or sprinkled on. It tasted as if I cut up pieces of a wonderful pork belly, threw it into the air fryer with no seasoning or rendering whatsoever and gave them to customers. I was eating pork fat and pork protein with some onions on top. I could've made this. There's nothing Filipino about this.
I don't even want to talk about the meats anymore, just like how there's no seasoning to savor over. I'll keep it concise from now on. The spicy pork tastes like Mexican chorizo if someone forgot the paprika, cumin, and salt. The adobo tastes like unflavored carnitas; full of protein but no caramelization. I'm not saying it has to be Filipino, even if it taste straight-up Mexican, I would enjoy it despite its branding.
Does this place even know how to work with pork? You can't have an establishment that nearly every dish depends on le pig and not have flavors. Damn...its store name is literally about pork.
Some may say I didn't try their other stuff but they're just variations of carbohydrate(i.e. sandwich bread, rice, fries) with their meat on top. You can't just depend on cheese, sauces, and sprinkles of veggies to save your ass. Save the pork flavors first then we'll bite.