Restaurant Reviews: Hongdae’s Dos Tacos

Filed as: Korean Food // Responses: 6

Korean food is great, but – as you can tell from our last Thai food restaurant review – we’re also looking for foreign food. Our hunt for Thai food failed. We can’t find any Mexican places in Bucheon, so last Friday we travelled to Hongdae to try our luck there. We heard about a place called Dos Tacos, which supposedly served really good Mexican food: burritos, nachos, margaritas, tacos, so on and so forth.

Would it be authentic, though, or at least as good as the Mexican food we’re used to from back home? After all, back in Toronto we constantly ate at Bar Burrito or Burrito Bros, and they serve some pretty good stuff. Have our standards been met here at Dos Tacos?

If videos just aren’t your thing, then we’ll spoil it for you right now: Dos Tacos was a big let down. Any burrito with pickles in it just ain’t a burrito to us. The refried beans were kidney beans! Although it tasted good, it just wasn’t Mexican enough for us. What a letdown.

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Theo
The best Mexican place I've found so far is Tomatillo (http://www.tomatillo.co.kr/main.html). The hot sauce isn't ketchup with Tabasco. That alone should tell you a lot. They use real beans and their rice isn't out of a rice cooker oh and they have real cilantro, jalapenos and sour cream. It's a bit like Chipotle so not a real Mexican Tacoria but still the best Mexican I've had so far. I recommend the carnitas/shredded pork and chicken. The beef in the carne asada is cut up into tiny pieces so it's not the same mouth feel and the fish was just ok leaning towards bad.

eatyourkimchi
I've heard of the place often, but have never been. We'll make sure to check it out. Thanks!

Eric
I just had the quesadilla grande at Taco Amigo (in Itaewon, if you go down the street that's perpendicular to the Hamilton Hotel and pass the Taco Bell on your left it's on the right within a couple of blocks), and they were very good and tasted like something I could get at a Mexican restaurant in the U.S. I'm so glad there's tasty Mexican food to be found around here. While I was waiting for my quesadilla I looked at a yellow pages booklet and also saw an ad for Los Amigos, which is somewhere in that area. And I'm looking forward to checking out the Tomatillo place now, too.

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Eatyourkimchi
If you can, please stop by again when you try out those other places. I'd love to know if they're worth it.

mysticmaven
I can't agree with you about Dos Tacos. My wife and I went and were thrilled to find a place with actual LIMES and CILANTRO (you can't find that stuff where we live), and my burrito, although folded strangely may as well have been served at a Mexican place in the states. Maybe it depends what you order? I didn't find any olives or pickles in mine, if I had I would have thrown it away. Heheh.
The best Mexican food we've found in Cheongju is at a local bar called Pearl Jam (it's technically known as Bugle Bar, but no one calls it that). They have burritos and quesadillas and THE BEST nachos we've had outside of the states. Really yummy. Plus, the bar is sweet.

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Well then, I'm glad it was different for you than it was for us. We should check it out again, then. And thanks for the recommendation in Cheongju. If we ever head down there, we'll give that place a shot