Taco Loco — Restaurant in Chatan

Usually I get let down by "Mexican" food in Japan and even when we decided to try this place, my hopes were not high, but I was completely amazed by the food. I had the alpastor quesadilla and tasted like something I would get in Southern California or Arizona. Meat was perfectly marinated and delicious, tortilla was soft but crispy, and they had great choice of fresh onions, cilantro, and pickled onions. They did not have a house made spicy salsa but did have good bottled one that had great taste and just glad it wasn't Tabasco or Tapatio. The churro was great and definitely recommend. Birria tacos were also good and consume had great flavor. This is the closest to back home mexican food in 14 years of visiting Japan multiple time and 100% recommend....

One word to describe the dining experience: Disappointing. The restaurant website made it sound like an authentic Mexican restaurant run by someone who lived, or at least traveled, in Mexico. It's not. We ordered the Tinga Tacos and the Tacos Pescado. The Tinga style chicken looked and tasted like packaged grilled supermarket chicken. The fried fish in the Tacos Pescado tasted like frozen supermarket fish sticks. Both literally tasted like they were pulled out of the refrigerator and microwaved before being dumped on hastily chopped veggies. The tastiest thing about the whole meal was the bottled hot sauce, something that we used liberally to cover the taste of our...

Found this while walking around American village. I was surprised to see that they offered al pastor tacos so I knew i had to try this place out. I went in with low expectations as Japan is not know for their excellent Mexican food, but this is quite possibly the best tacos I had while living in Japan. I ordered the al pastor tacos with tortillas made in house (different than hand made) and im surprised on how good they are. A little different as im not used to queso and lettuce on my tacos but it was still good. The salsa was great too. Give it a try if you are craving tacos al pastor but REMEMBER that you are...