Yes :-) Remi's review (May 11th 2006)

I recently saw a local personality complain that our area lacked good Mexican restaurants. Then in the same breath he proclaimed Taco Bell as “awesome.” This with a straight face. He apparently should either have read the Remster’s Project Taco Truck or stopped talking crap.

Anyway!

Tacos el Mariachi is located in a shop parking lot in Hillyard. Their tacos might not be quite up there with Tacos Tumbras’s, but the carne asadas have a great flavor to them, and the (optional) salsa complements the tacos just fine. Why they decided to include iceberg lettuce is anybody’s guess, but it doesn’t really take away from the taste. Just seems a bit superfluous.

The stars of the show, however, are the rice and beans. I’m not sure what they to do them, but it kind of feels like the rice might be refried, and then mixed with the beans. It’s difficult to say, but it’s really really good at least. And seeing that you get three tacos with rice and beans for $5, you do in fact have a winner on your hands with Tacos el Mariachi.