Time for another crispy taco review!
I was talked into going to Chevys Fresh Mex down in Elk Grove on Laguna. Well, as long as I was there, I decided to sample their crispy tacos as part of South Sac Blog's Search for the Best Crispy Tacos. I wish I hadn't.
To be the best, a crispy fried taco must be, well, freshly fried. The crunchy taco at Chevys isn't freshly fried for you. It tastes like a step up from Taco Bell's hard shell taco. So much so that I asked the waiter if the taco shells were made fresh there, or taken out of the box. He admitted they were prepackaged. How this can be sold at a restaurant that claims it is "Fresh Mex" is beyond me. If you went to a grocery store and saw two kinds of boxed taco shells, one cheap, and the other costing a little more, I think what I ate would be from the box costing a little more. A little better quality, but hey, still out of a box.
I ordered the two combo dinner with a crunchy beef taco and tamale - that comes with rice and beans as shown below. The price for that plate is about $13 as I recall. You can get better deals at smaller taquerias in South Sac.
Notice the crack in my taco as it came out:
You would think who ever spooned in the filling would have noticed that and prepared another shell. So much for quality control.
Another thing that bothered me about the taco was the lack of meat in the filling. Take a look:
What you see stuffed inside the taco is mostly the lettuce, tomato and onions. Very little meat as you can really see from the picture below:
I won't be ordering crunchy tacos at Chevys again. I would rate what I ordered slightly below the hard shell taco at Super Tacos. That's because there wasn't much filling inside.
But I would order some other things. For instance I've always enjoyed Chevys' chili rellenos. I also enjoy the salsa that comes with the chips and salsa.
The bottom line is this: In the search for the best crispy taco in South Sac, Taco Fresco Burgers & Fries is still Numero Uno!
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