On Saturday whilst visiting friends in London I took the boy to Thomasina Miers's Mexican market style restaurant Wahaca for late lunch.
http://www.wahaca.co.uk/
It was much busier than I had (naively) presumed having just won the Observer Food Monthly award for best cheap eats and the Zagat Best Mexican Restaurant award so we had a short wait at the bar.
Whilst we waited I had a generous (in size and ancohol content) 'Wahaca mule' cocktail and himself had a Corona, we perused the menu and watched the food being delivered to other people - a good way to gauge portion size and popular dishes!
By the time we were seated we were more or less ready to choose our food:
We opted for the 'Street Food' which is small, tapas like sharing plates which are brought to you as and when they are ready. We had:
Pork Pibil Tacos: "Soft corn tortillas with slow cooked pork in our special Yucatecan marinade"
Tender, Marinated Chicken Taquitos: Corn Tortillas wrapped around chicken with lettuce, cheese and tomato salsa then deep fried and served with crema"
Beef Saipicion Tostadas: "Crisp tortillas piled high with cold shredded aromatic beef with spicy habanero and red onion salsa"
Chorizo and potato Quesadillas: "Toasted flour tortillas oozing with melted cheese and homemade mexican chorizo and potato"
Frijoles with crumbled cheese and crema: "Rich creamy black beans cooked twice for flavour".
All the food was delicious, fresh and really flavoursome, our favourite was the Pork Pibil Tacos. The quesidillas were a bit too hot and greasy compared to the rest of the food, I wish I hadn't ordered them and gone for the Churros and hot chocolate for pudding but I'll save them for next time!
The service was swift and friendly and the prices certainly reasonable: our meal plus a beer and an gorgeous, cooling long drink of Almond and rice milk with cinnamon came to less than £24.
We will definitely be going back and recommending it to friends... and planning a holiday to Mexico...
Oh, if you do go, and you should; on the way out make sure you pick up one of their "match books" which are infact chilli seeds to plant at home - I had some last year and they grew great chillis!
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