Los Chapos Tacos, a small native chain of genuine fast-casual Mexican eating places that started as a meals truck enterprise, has opened its new fourth location at 24799 W. S.R. 54 in Land O’Lakes, in the identical small strip retail middle as Fazoli’s.
Sadly, I can’t let you know a lot in regards to the meals on the new Los Chapos Tacos as a result of the restaurant cooks all of its meals on the identical grills and there are just a few shrimp choices on the menu.
This type of bummed me out as a result of there are a number of distinctive choices on the menu, together with Guacamole de Chicharron — slow-braised pork stomach completed on the grill with Asian BBQ sauce, served over hand-smashed guacamole with queso fresco, cilantro and chips. I’d even be fascinated about sampling the elotes appetizer, or Mexican road corn on the cob, with cotija cheese, chipotle aioli, lime and tajin.
There are also home specialties just like the Torta Ahogada or “drowned sandwich,” which is a model of the signature sandwich of Guadalajara, with crunchy-outside sourdough bread stuffed with shredded “Birria” beef and melted cheese, with a spicy dipping sauce on the facet. The identical birria beef is out there on tacos, and there are also “Surf ‘N’ Turf” tacos with grilled steak and shrimp, corn salsa, avocado and chipotle cream on a grilled flour tortilla.
Jannah and I simply couldn’t depart with out at the least letting her pattern one thing and she or he ended up having that birria beef on a tasty grilled quesadilla with melted cheese (prime photograph). She stated it was scrumptious, however I (heavy sigh) merely needed to take her phrase for it.
She additionally tried and loved the lavender sangria (photograph proper), and Los Chapos Tacos would most likely be a spot we’d frequent pretty typically if I might eat the meals. My Victoria Mexican beer was ice chilly and in contrast to most fast-casual institutions, the restaurant does have a restricted (and cute) full-liquor bar with a number of totally different tequilas out there (above left photograph) to make your favourite margaritas.
Contemplating that it has two grills within the kitchen, if they might maintain one grill devoted to non-shrimp orders, folks like me might nonetheless take pleasure in it.
However, as one manager-in-training informed me, “Even when we might do this, we’d nonetheless want each grills after we get busy.” Actually unhappy for me.
Los Chapos Tacos opens for lunch & dinner day by day at 11 a.m., besides Solar. (when it’s closed). For more information, name (813) 868-3056 or go to LosChaposTacos.com. — GN
