Martha's Fusion Kitchen — Restaurant in Columbus

I was absolutely thrilled when we found out that this place was so close to where I live. I was expecting really great food just because hole in the wall places are usually good and it was! We got a little confused because the sign outside was still the old pizza shop, but it's the right place. There's not much inside and still looks like the pizza shop, but it's okay, we ordered to-go. I recommend calling or ordering ahead because we were told 20 minutes for our wait, but we waited for about 45 for our meal. It also seemed like pick up orders had to wait at least 10 more mins when they arrived.

We ordered an order of birria tacos and an order of pastor street tacos. Our orders came with green salsa and a hot red pepper sauce. The birria tacos were good, very greasy, and a bit underwhelming in flavor. The meat was pretty good, a bit dry but I thought the broth dip was not flavored very well nor did it add anything to the taco flavor, it tasted like watered down onion beef soup. Also, 30 minutes into our wait, the cashier told us they ran out of pastor meat and if we'd like to switch our meat, so we got chorizo. The chorizo tacos were amazing, hands down it was the best chorizo tacos I've ever had. The chorizo tacos saved our experience, to be honest. We saw a customer come in to pick up their meal and they ran out of garlic bread for the day but only notified the customer when they arrived. Then, it took the cashier another 15 minutes to go get change next door to refund the customer. Seemed like they were running low on everything for the day.

I think overall, of you're willing to wait or order way in advance, they make yummy tacos and they're quite affordable, but I was not impressed with the birria tacos. I think they can improve their services and do better with prep and quicker serving, but they're new and I understand that. I will be back and hopefully, they...

Well we tried Martha's today for lunch and OMG I could have cried into my consomé IT WAS FABULOUS! I did a little research before I went as it was my first time trying Birria tacos. Seemed to be many think Martha's is the best so we will go with that! I didn't realize how small the restaurant is and was lucky enough to get a sit down seat for me and my toddler! There are 2 low 4 tops and maybe 3(?) high tops I didnt see how many stools each had. Luckily they even had a high chair for us. My daughter was having a rough day and got a little boisterous when we were trying to get situated and when another diner got her food, she offered some fries to us to help calm her shortly after the girl running the counter arrived with MORE life-saving fries! The sweetest and smallest gesture that turned out being a lifesaver until our food arrived.

On to our food. As I mentioned, we came for Birria tacos and they were incredible! I couldn't believe the flavor and complexity of flavor! I'm hooked for sure. We also got the shrimp street tacos and they were also phenomenal. The two balanced each very other well. We hot the choriqueso with chips and that was really good too. We went ahead and dumped some on my daughter's "paci-friers" (get it pacifier and fries) for some drama! While we were eating the beautiful girl running the show said "we have homemade coconut milk" so I was like sure.. AMAZING! Seriously so good and refreshing to counteract all the bold flavors coming from the tacos. To round it all out we took flan home along with all the leftovers. I always order as to have leftovers plus the 2yo needs a nap. In fact, as I write this, maybe a siesta is in the works for me too

Thank you so much for a great meal and pleasant interactions with both staff and other restaurant guests alike! See...

Well what can I say?, I have been there a couple times, when I am working close the area that is my restaurant to get my food because they made a good food, but today I had a very bad experience with a guy there, maybe the owner or a worker I don' tknow, I got my food to go and he charge me taxes, I said very nicely hey food to go doesn't charge taxes and he answer me ( I was paying with debit card) how much was (taxes) I can giving to you in cash but in a very bad way, I said hey man don't need to be rude, it is not about the amount it is about what is right and what not, simple. He apologize but it was anyway a bad experience. (Never happened before with a really nice lady who serves there)

(The official section that states that restaurants do not have to charge sales tax for "food to go" is the Ohio Revised Code (O.R.C.), specifically Section 5739.02 (B)(2). ​This section provides an exemption for the "sales of food for human consumption off the premises where sold." ​This means that while food consumed at the restaurant (dine-in) is taxable, the same food ordered for carryout, drive-thru, or delivery is exempt from sales tax. This is a unique feature of Ohio's sales tax law compared to many...