James A.
Yelp
My brother and I went looking for great Mexican food, so walked from the Toyota Center (interesting walk...the downtown scooter craze seems to have hit Houston hard...definitely had to watch out more for scooters than cars, since the sidewalk seems to be an acceptable byway).
Los Primos is located inside of an underground food hall, and the Astros game was playing. If I cared about either team, I would have enjoyed watching the game in that atmosphere. We ordered our food from Los Primos, and waited a few minutes for it. We ordered the Quesitaco Trio (not the taco trio which is what it looked like) with consume, Birria torta, and corn in a cup (elotes). All were ok to good.
The best thing was the stewed meat. While I'm writing this review, I was trying to figure out what sort of meat it was. I know traditionally, it should be goat, but beef is used instead quite a bit...and the meat tasted liked beef. I can't seem to find in the other yelp reviews, what sort of meat it is...but in any case, it was delicious, and was great to dunk in the consume. The taco itself was OK, and a bit expensive. The torta was good, mainly because of the birria, and the amount was probably a little more than two tacos, so probably better just to order more tacos. The bolla bread was what you get 3 for a dollar at a mexican grocery: nothing special. The elote was very creamy and flavorful, but also very rich...since we were going to walk a lot, had to stop eating it, just in case.
My one suggestion is to perhaps make the quesataco tortilla more crunchy/crispy by deep frying it in the consume fat more longer. The shell was more consistent with as if we had just ordered the birria tacos (which I know we didn't since ours had melted jack cheese). We've had great quesitacos in LA, and while the meat here could compete, the assembly and presentation (and price) could not.
All the dining area is shared between the restaurants, since it's a food hall. As a side note, a nice hostess from a different restaurant came around to offer two free draft Crawford Bock from Karbach (maybe for OktoberFest) while we were eating our tacos. It's a good beer, something to try again later.