Taco Nazo — Restaurant in Tempe

What a funky spot. It’s your fairly standard walk up to the counter style Mexican restaurant, but unlike most others, these guys serve beer and margaritas, and even have a happy hour!

The walls are adorned with Picasso-esque takes on religious artwork, which left me feeling a little uncertain if they were honoring or mocking religion. Anyway….

So, dear reader, you must know that one of my life’s missions is to find the best chimichanga in the world. I always order a bean and cheese chimi, partly because I want to keep the comparisons equal, but also because most places pack a chimi with meat and only meat, and that’s just too much, you know?

So I order it to go. The service is slow. The dining room is packed with people who also haven’t gotten their food. Seeing this, I decide to order a beer to sip on while I wait. They gave me a lime, which was great!

I finally get my chimi and take it back to work. The fork they supplied me with was too weak to handle the job, but the knife did just fine. I was immediately disappointed by the lack of pico de gallo. Come on guys, gimme that good stuff! It looked pretty boring with just the guac and sour cream. It tasted equally boring.

The beans were fine, not spectacular, and it could’ve used more cheese. On my universal 13 point scale of chimichanga deliciousness, Taco Nazo’s chimi comes in at a 7. Not great. I mean, it wasn’t bad, but then again I was starving. The tortilla was a bit chewier than it should’ve been; I want more crunch. My fork probably would’ve survived better if the chimi was more crispy and easier to cut through.

So, there you have it. Taco Nazo does NOT serve the best chimichanga in the world. Alas, the...

I was in this area and craving a breakfast burrito and decided to check this place out (prices looked good) and I got a classic, a potato, egg and chorizo burrito. Price, before Tax, was around $10.30 for all the breakfast burritos so around $11.50 after tax and when I paid, nothing popped up for a tip so that it what I paid (no cash on me).

It was a good-sized breakfast burrito (could easily be two meals), and best of all, very good salsa. When I asked for Salsa, they gave me a red and green one and while the green was good the red salsa was smoky and spicy (wonderful) - tastes like the put chipotle peppers in it. I also found that the potatoes were not fried but cooked and chopped up (which I like) and it was not overly greasy and held up well when I ate it (about 2 hours after I bought it).

The person at the counter was friendly and I felt welcome and while a basic establishment it was very clean and had some great artwork on the walls and some not too loud music. I thought this was a very tasty breakfast burrito and good value for the money as, like I said, it could easily be two meals - definitely a place I put in my favorites for my...

I came to this place seeing the beautiful culture over the walls and the amazing stilo. I ordered a Torta no tomato or onions and I received a torta with onions under the lettuce. I decided to pick the onions out manually since there wasn’t that much but still a hassle. As I picked through I noticed there was more lettuce than meat. Once I thought the torta was cleared enough I took a bite. The torta was delicious. I was hesitant about how the bread looked but it was good. Unfortunately that was ruined by how fatty the carne asada was. Since I was craving a horchata I got one for about 4$ and it tasted watery but like too much cinnamon at the same time. It was disappointing but the music and art on the walls was...