Kwak Family
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Lively and friendly place for fusion Mexican, or new and unique interpretations threof, food!
All dishes were surprising as each of them were not one may expect from typical run-of-the-mill Mexican restaurants! The most surprising dish, for me, was the al pastor -- it was a slab of, I guess, pork and other ingredients, making it look like a piece of SPAM but with al Pastor flavor.
This place is like a "tapas" restaurant, i.e., Mexican tapas, easily sharable with table mates, enabling tasting of many different dishes. That's basically what we did even with half (3) of us were vegetarians.
The food was quite tasty in most cases -- Nachos, ribs, carnitas, various vegetarian dishes.
The Al Pastor, a pork dish, needed lime drops to cover the underlying pork smell. Perhaps they need to add some more spices when they are creating the "slab." It could also be caused by what I suspect would be a two-step process - cook the pork, grind/mix/form the slab, and then reheat to serve. Double cooking of pork (and chicken) typically leads to such smell.
The fish taco was also not so good as it was "fishy," indicating the fish may not have been as fresh as it should or could have been.
I gave 5 stars even though two items had critical mistakes as the rest were very good and as all were very creative take on Mexican food! Hopefully, the two above-mentioned missteps will be fixed by the time I return.