![]() As soon as I find my table, my order is up, and there, sitting in front of me is some of the greatest Mexican food I’ve ever encountered. Fried avocado tacos, watermelon agua fresca, elote and chicken tortilla soup, por favor. With cash in hand, I eagerly scan the chalkboard menu to make sure my favorites are available. ![]() Mas Tacos is in the neighborhood of being a dive and super trendy (only in Nashville can somewhere be considered as both.) But, nonetheless, it stole my heart love at first bite and quickly became one of my favorite spots to eat in town. On the top of the list was Mas Tacos Por Favor, which is nestled in a residential area and honestly does not look like much from the outside. Whenever I moved to Nashville, my list quickly took form with numerous local eateries. And we are the better for it. So let’s get out there and support our new neighbors! Y buen provecho.One of the advantages of moving from place to place is getting to research and experience the best restaurants the South has to offer. In case you were hesitating, you know, a neighborhood can’t have too much Yucatecan food. To paraphrase (and with apologies to) Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” There’s ample room for the multitudes of different people and cuisines in the Mission. Family owned and run, the service was friendly and sweet. And, Loltún is wallet-friendly too, nothing to sneeze at during these times when seemingly everything costs more. I really hope they get more business soon. “Sometimes, the weekend lunch hour is good,” I was told a bit ruefully. ![]() I noted, with regret, that we were the only people there on a recent Friday night, and I asked if there were times when they were perhaps busier. There are no plans to introduce beer or wine to the menu at the moment, but they offer aguas frescas and soft drinks (Jarritos!). Loltún has much more to offer: Caldo de res, mondongo, escabeche, and other homey soups, as well as tamales, Man Handler-sized platters of carne asada, cochinita pibil, roasted chicken, carne deshebrada (shredded beef marinated in sour orange), and daily specials. Along with that, we both got fluffy rice, cool cabbage, pickled onions, and homemade corn tortillas.Įverything you want in poc chuc: Marinated and grilled pork steak, smokey, tender, and juicy. Loltún’s homemade tortillas are excellent, and I made little tacos of each bite, with the bean puree slathered over all. I found the chicken bland, though perfectly crispy, but the BF cleaned his plate. The milanesa treatment is also available on pork, beef, or fish filet perhaps one of these other options would work better.īoth our dinners came with small bowls of thickly pureed black bean soup (bad reviewer forgot to take a picture!), which only needed a little hot-hot-hot-habanero salsa (squeeze bottle on the table, very good if you like heat) to kick it up. It came with a different, garlicky, bright-red salsa that I absolutely loved and sloshed onto everything else. ![]() And fried, not baked (or why bother?) I’d try the cheese one next time. The ground pork empanada was also lovely. The empanada shell seemed a little thin at first, but the whole thing was, again, tender, and perfectly balanced texture and flavor-wise. The panucho was a nicely corny tortilla (homemade), stuffed with mashed black beans and topped with glistening chunks of tender pork, with a deeply satisfying roasted tomato salsa, cabbage and avocado. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google ![]()
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