Loco Bro's Taqueria - Titirangi — Restaurant in Waitākere Ranges

I am originally from Veracruz, Mex, but have been living in NZ for the past almost ten years. I came to Loco Bros, since they are running a campaign to collect some insight from Mexicans in NZ in regards to their food. I would like to begin by saying I find it really cool the owners have this type of initiative, as you don't often find businesses that truly take the time to listen to their customers feedback, and take the necessary measures to improve upon their food. The service was a 10/10, and their food was overall really nice too! -As a general feedback I find the tortillas need to either be heated up with a bit of fat/oil, or kept in a steamer before serving the tacos, to help with moisture, as tortillas tend to go hard quite easily when they start to cool down. -I tried the birria, carnitas & fried chicken tacos, and the stand out for me was the birrira! The carnitas were nice, but not what I was expecting, as they were more of a barbacoa de puerco than actual carnitas. -I found the chicken taco a bit hard to eat, as it was a really big piece of chicken. I also found that a green salsa would go better with the fried chicken, instead of the chipotle sour cream. If you swap the big chicken thigh, for a chicken tender or chicken schnitzel, it would be easier to eat. A really common combo for a fried chicken taco in Mexico (taco de milanesa) is refried beans, or mashed potatoes, and a "salsa guacamolera" or salsa verde. You guys should give that a go some day, I'm sure you'll love the combo! When chatting with one of the owners, he mentioned the Loco Bros staff will be taking a trip to Mexico very soon, to do a bit of food exploration, so here are some of my recommendations for your trip: -Watch the Netflix show "Taco Chronicles", as there are heaps of really good recommendations in the show for taquerias in Mexico City. -Do a food tour in Mexico city with Eat Mexico for a curated immersive experience, one of my best friends has been a tour guide with them for years! -When you visit a taco stall, check out how they steam their tortillas to keep them from going hard. -Go to Puebla to try some "tacos arabes". Puebla is really close to Mexico City, so it's an easy commute, plus the state has amazing culinary traditions. Tacos arabes are originally from Puebla, and they are not your most common type of taco out there, defs worth trying! -Go to any "parrilla" it's a steakhouse style of restaurant, where they have different cuts, and accompaniments to make your own tacos. I think with the kind of set up you guys have something like this could work really well at Loco Bros. When you're in Oaxaca make sure to visit "Mercado 20 de Noviembre" a market full of butchers where you pick your own meat, and then take it to one of the many tacos stall, where they will grill it for you. Good luck with...

Really solid go at Mexican food here on Auckland.

A couple pointers for a better more authentic Mexican feel, sauces are a bit too sweet, don't shy away from spice, also we don't use the pickled onions (we also add some spices and jalapeño so it has that extra flavor) for everything or the refried bean base, except and for the tinga they always go together. Go heavier on the onion and cilantro on the tacos, it really makes a difference. There are a lot of different ways to do carnitas, the most authentic one is big chunks of squared meat fried for a long time on fat and coca cola, not the pulled pork style stuff, also pineapple is usually just used for tacos al pastor. The tortilla is really good! But using two tortillas helps a lot with the structural integrity of the taco.

The spices on the fries where a little too far of the spices we use at mexico, too much cumin try paprika instead.

Overall really good, if you visit mexico make sure to try tacos al vapor, the morning tacos, barbacoa and pozole, all must haves! Thanks for the...

From Toluca, Mexico I was visiting this place last night and the service was excellent. The pork carnitas quesadilla was delicious, it really reminded me of home, the fish taco was also very good and a pleasant surprise was to see that they had chilaquiles on the menu. I'm not sure if they had hot sauces to add to our dishes but I think having imported sauces like “el yucateco” or other would be a very appreciated gesture for those of us who love spicy food.

Best wishes and if you go to Mexico I recommend you to visit my 3 favorite cities which are CDMX, Puerto Escondido and Guanajuato City.

Here is a list of places to eat in each one. -Taquería El Califa de León (the 1st Mexico City taquería to make Michelin star) -Sal de Mar (my favorite place to eat in Puerto Escondido, the best guacamole I have ever had) -Pacifico surf antojaría del mar (located in the city of Guanajuato, they have the best aguachile and the best baja...