Saturday night, the bf, fambam and some family friends of the bf, and I all decided to head to Nopalito's for dinner.
Now Nopalito's is a self-described "sustainable organic Mexican kitchen" located in Inner Sunset. Obviously, I love Mexican food, and so I was excited to try this place that looked nicer than your average taqueria.
We began with an appetizer of Totopos con Chile, which was a classier version of nachos, minus the beans, guacamole, and jalapeños. I know that was a lot of minuses, but it was pretty good! The chips themselves were coated in some sort of spice, which meant that you didn't really want (or need) the jalapeños for the kick.
For the main course, the bf and I shared the Tacos Dorados de Papa (potato taquitos), Panucho de Pollo al Pibil (some sort of chicken on top of a crispy taco that was filled with a black bean mash, topped with cabbage and salsa), and this shrimp enchilada thing (which I couldn't find on the menu, which is why you get the description rather than the actual name of the dish). The potato taquitos were the best - the outside was perfectly crispy while the inside had the consistency of mashed potatoes.
I didn't like the other two dishes - the panucho had pulled chicken, which I tend to not like anyway, and not only that, the way the pulled chicken was marinated was not very yummy. As for the shrimp, it wasn't very flavorful, and the flavors didn't mesh together very well.
I do love Mexican food, but I did not love Nopalito's. And this may be because I don't like "high class" Mexican food. When I think of Mexican food, I think of taquerias, and my mind wants taqueria burritos and quesadilla, which Nopalito's was most definitely not. It might have just been an issue of reality not meeting expectations, because the expectations weren't reasonable. Regardless, I don't think I'll be coming here again.
Now Nopalito's is a self-described "sustainable organic Mexican kitchen" located in Inner Sunset. Obviously, I love Mexican food, and so I was excited to try this place that looked nicer than your average taqueria.
We began with an appetizer of Totopos con Chile, which was a classier version of nachos, minus the beans, guacamole, and jalapeños. I know that was a lot of minuses, but it was pretty good! The chips themselves were coated in some sort of spice, which meant that you didn't really want (or need) the jalapeños for the kick.
For the main course, the bf and I shared the Tacos Dorados de Papa (potato taquitos), Panucho de Pollo al Pibil (some sort of chicken on top of a crispy taco that was filled with a black bean mash, topped with cabbage and salsa), and this shrimp enchilada thing (which I couldn't find on the menu, which is why you get the description rather than the actual name of the dish). The potato taquitos were the best - the outside was perfectly crispy while the inside had the consistency of mashed potatoes.
I didn't like the other two dishes - the panucho had pulled chicken, which I tend to not like anyway, and not only that, the way the pulled chicken was marinated was not very yummy. As for the shrimp, it wasn't very flavorful, and the flavors didn't mesh together very well.
I do love Mexican food, but I did not love Nopalito's. And this may be because I don't like "high class" Mexican food. When I think of Mexican food, I think of taquerias, and my mind wants taqueria burritos and quesadilla, which Nopalito's was most definitely not. It might have just been an issue of reality not meeting expectations, because the expectations weren't reasonable. Regardless, I don't think I'll be coming here again.
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