26 Berwick Street,
Soho,
London,
W1F 8RG
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The food may be good (enough), but they don't advertise drink prices where the drinks are sold (an excuse to rip you off big time), they don't give you napkins or anything to eat with (when you take away) and paying £16.40 for a takeaway for 2 people is outrageous, given the above.
I just had a pork taco from there for lunch and actually it was pretty good. I don't get the bad reviews below. Maybe Mexican restaurants aren't the best place to get a bowl of soup?
The pork was soft, the sauce tasty. I liked the soft, chewy taco shell but don't know if it's authentic or not. You get two taco shells per order. They do charge to add guacamole (I think the old place used to do that too) which is a bit weird. I suppose the flipside is to say you get a discount for not having it :) The hot sauce is pretty hot. Good to have some corn ships standing by to spoon off some of the sauces.
Most expensive soup in Soho!!
Where do I start?!?Went in and ordered a the soup, which sounded divine. I thought the price of £4.50 was a bit expensive, yet it was the cheapest thing on the menu. When they called my order I received 2 bigish tubs, and I asked the man if both of those were mine and he said yes because their usual big tubs had finished so they giving out two smaller ones. I then asked if it was possible to have just one tub for half the price and they told me to talk to the person that served me. When I asked the man at the till if I could please have 1 tub for half the price, he told me it was mistake, he reprimanded the staff making the food, looked at me and said that the tub I received is the correct size. I requested to see the small size tub to which they didn't have any at the moment and I also wondered why they didn't have 2 prices for the different size tubs on the menu. The most expensive tub of soup in Soho and the staff have no clue what customer service is!!
If you're wondering why there are no queues at this place it's because the food is very poor. I ordered a pork burrito but what followed reminded me of school diners circa 1975.
What i got did not resemble a burrito at all, but a rolled corned beef slop fest that had no discernible Mexican influence whatsoever.
Soho is screaming out for decent Mexican food and Mexicali just can't get it right.
The sooner this place goes bust the better.
Fantastic. I'm a Mexican living in London and this is one of the two places in the entire city where I can get authentic Mexican food.
Simple, fresh, yet exquisite. They understand perfectly the elegant simplicity of true Mexico.
The chipotle sauce and corn tortillas are perfect. Seasonings just right, made me miss the west coast of Mexico.
And the fact that you can get a meal for a little over a fiver is logic defying.
Now... if only they served Modelo with a lime, I'd be in heaven!
On a weeknight it "claims" it's open till 9pm, I arrived last night at 8:30 and found they had already closed down. When I asked "Are you still open?"
I was greeted with the girl rolling here eyes and very snarky "No, we're closed".
Never going back to this location. The Mexicali on Fulham Road is MUCH better. Customer service fail.
I have tried out this place twice for a takeout lunch whilst trying to find a place that sells burritos just as good as Daddy Donkey in Leather Lane market.
This place is nowhere near as good. Low quality meats, not tasty in any way and you have to pay for sour cream - it's like having to pay for tomato sauce on your hot dog!
Also over-priced for what you get...In short - rubbish! Take the healthy option and go to Vital Ingredient a couple doors down for the best salad in London!
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