Surf Taco - Point Pleasant Beach — Restaurant in Point Pleasant Beach

My son: “best taco/Mexican-food I ever had” (Mango Shrimp taco $6)

I’ve been going to Taco Surf since about 2011 when I moved to the east coast from Southern California. This place is a mirror of the type of mexican food one expects in SoCal. The standards are:

1. a salsa bar (I like to mix the tomatillo green, with tomato red with chipotle hot pepper brown salsa— need about 3 tubs to drown a burrito).

2. Horchata, Jamaica and Tamarindo drinks. (Jamaica was always my favorite but Horchata is #1 in SoCal)

3. Fish tacos.

I really appreciate this place and always stop if i can when heading to Seaside Park.

The cod fried burrito is excellent.

I reserve 5 stars for top ingredients like all-organic and farm/table. Not sure if Taco Surf has that standard— but didn’t see it advertised.

The dining area is pleasant and clean.

The owner stopped by our table today and asked how everything was. I had a mouthful of food and vowed to walk back and talk to him after i was done— but he was already gone. I appreciate he’s questioning his customers. I would’ve loved to ask him his inspiration for his restaurant. I remember a “Taco Surf” in San Diego’s Pacific Beach which came into town after I had moved to Los Angeles (which has significantly worse Mexican food— closer to border = better Mexican). (Santana’s in Pt Loma was the gold standard in the 1990s for burritos)

Good luck to Taco Surf & I hope he one day he standardizes the ingredients at organic+plus in the future so I can rate this Pt Pleasant / Bay Head icon as 5 stars. It has so many good items on the menu it’s hard to choose.

To anyone complaining about a 1-taco price, that’s absurd! Order as many...

I’ve been a loyal customer since about 2007 and I have only made 2 bad reviews in my life time but, I feel compelled to share my continued disappointment with this restaurant. If I do eat here, I only order 1 item because it’s the only thing that’s half way decent & it’s a salad. I took an enormous chance by trying the “Aloha Chicken Tacos”, and my oh my was this a disaster. Before I even got them home, whatever “sauce” is on them was all over everything in the bag. This saturated the entire bottom of said bag, then proceeded to soak through it & spill out all over the floor of my car while I was driving. Mind you, I only live a 3 minute drive from this location. The tacos they sold me were soaking wet (in what I still don’t know) and tasted extremely sour. They were so disgusting I had to throw them all in the trash! I spent almost $30 on the blandest guacamole I have ever eaten, & 3 tacos that were soaking wet, sour, and completely inedible. They looked absolutely nothing like the picture on their website. There was also no pineapple in them which is supposed to be one of the main ingredients of this menu item. Not sure what has happened with this specific location but, it is just not as good as it once was years ago. I’m extremely disappointed considering the high price of their food, because it does not match the quality. Not even close, do yourself a favor and just hit up Chipotle or a local authentic Mexican restaurant. Do better Surf Taco, you just lost a loyal...

This place seems like the product of someone from North Jersey reading about fish tacos in a magazine. The ingredients are all there, but the preparation and proportioning leave much to be desired. Baja tacos are small because they need to be; the fish stays tender because it is cut small enough to cook quickly. Surf Taco must have missed this on the Mahi taco, because the brick of dry fish on my tortilla could have made 3 good tacos by itself. As per standard diner procedure, they combatted the overly dry fish by dumping a small salad of cabbage and salsa on top. The result is one giant, gross mess that was barely edible.

The surf taco was no improvement; a block of fried fish that had more in common with a fish & chips basket than a fish taco, drowned in condiments. Instead of several good tacos, I got one bad one. Even the chips were bland and greasy. My wife's beef taco was barely seasoned, dry and disappointing.

I'd come again for sustenance, but if there any other options I'd explore...