Even though Bombay is a gigantic global city, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to be able to find Mexican food up to the caliber of what I was used to at home. I ate Mexican food almost every other day to prepare for a two-year drought.
There are, of course, Mexican restaurants here, but most of them serve Indian and Chinese food along with their paneer tacos. Not so authentic. Arnab’s friend from the states said he found a really good Mexican restaurant here. Like, actually good.
We decided to try it out last night, and while I waited for him to get home from training, I read up on the Burrp reviews. People are generally skeptical and confused about new cuisine—so much so that the NRI owner of the place had a sheet of instructions on how to properly eat a taco. This reviewer literally had me laughing out loud, alone in my apartment.
we had taco platter which is served with mexican rice,refined beans & some salad..the tacos were very difficult to eat as the filling was on the roti not possible 2 eat without rolling it which is a NO-NO way of eating!!!!!
To be fair, on the menu the word “roti” in parentheses follows the description of a flour tortilla. It’s funny because I’ve been describing rotis to people back home as Indian tortillas.
My review? It’ll definitely do for the next two years. I got the same taco platter as the review above, but enjoyed it a lot. The refried beans were a little bland, and the Mexican rice was too wet—more like paella rice. The quesadilla wasn’t great. The cheese was oily, and I’m still not sure about zucchini as a filling.
I’m sure it’s hard to source local ingredients to create a foreign cuisine—a fact made obvious by the lackluster guacamole—so I give the place credit for sticking to its promise and offering traditional Mexican cuisine. I did spot a few Indian touches, however, in the use of paneer and chicken tika tacos. But, we are in India afterall.
All in all, had the restaurant been in the U.S., I probably would have kept looking. (I could have gotten a better version of the taco platter at the same price at a restaurant in Pilsen in Chicago.) But, this being India, I’ll be stopping by to fix my taco craving pretty frequently.
