malo

monday night is the best night of the week, as long as you go to malo for their dollar taco specials. the tacos start at one dollar and go up to two fifty, if you’re feeling fancy, or just got paid. normally the food at malo is rather pricey, i ate there once and was shocked at what i had to pay for a soy-rizo quesadilla, dude, it’s not even real meat. the tacos look small but they are stuffed to the brim with their fillings, and that makes them slightly messy and all that much better. my favorite taco is the potato cheddar, the potatoes are mashed and there is cheddar mixed in with the potatoes and then it’s fried, so it’s a crispy taco. the carne asada and the carnitas ones are really good too. carne asada comes with onions and cilantro, like a taco you would get in mexico, and the carnitas comes with guacamole, sour cream and tomatoes, very yummy. we also got a quartet of salsas to go with our chips and all four were pretty good, i liked the spicy one, i don’t know the name but it was good; the salsas are not a part of the specials. if you do go to malo, on mondays, don’t be surprised at the cost of the drinks; they’re not on discount, sadly. i paid five dollars for a pacifico beer and my friend paid eleven for a spicy cucumber margarita, her drink was pretty good in that it was kind of weird and different. my suggestion is that when you do go to dollar taco night, go early, it starts at six and gets super crowded, you don’t want to waiting for a long time to get your tacos, then you’ll get all cranky and won’t be able to enjoy them.

four out five tummy pats

in silverlake on sunset, next to the elliot smith wall