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Maybe someday you'll ask friends if they want to go down to the North End for some Mexican food
By adamg on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 3:53pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a Mexican restaurant in the heart of the North End.
Ali Yagcioglu needed board permission to open his El Triunfo take-out restaurant at 69 Prince St.
He already operates an El Triunfo on E. Berkeley Street in the South End, serving up Mexican and Central American dishes.
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Been to Eastie lately?
Good for him, I'd rather eat spaghettios then eat at half the "Italian" restaurants in the north end.
There's some good places, but many of them just serve overpriced slop to tourists.
Shh!
The tourists are happy with their faux Italian dinners and a soggy cannoli, and I'm happy being able to get a table at a place with real Italian food on a Friday night. DON'T ROCK THE BOAT.
Has anyone...
...ever been to that South End location? I go by all the time, I've heard third-hand that the food is pretty good, but does anyone out there have first-hand experience? Good Mexican food of course is hard to find in this city; we have Salsa's in Southie which is pretty good for the price, but more options would be great.
I'm dubious
A purportedly Latin restaurant that sells kofte and falafel alongside the pupusas and tacos?
i i think the combination of
i i think the combination of a turkish owner (assumption on the name) and a latin american kitchen staff (like most restaurants in boston) should assuage your dubiousity.
Because
People outside of the U.S. don't ever move, mingle with people with other cultures, etc. No Latin American people ever eat Middle Eastern food anywhere ever.
Or...
there's also the other option, which is that I also wouldn't go to a place that serves both egg foo yung and pizza, because I can get better pizza from a place that specializes in pizza, and better egg foo yung from a place that specializes in egg foo yung, because a place that does both of them isn't likely to do either of them well.
There are in fact Latin American dishes that are rooted in the Middle East -- I strong recommend the tacos arabes at Angela's Cafe, which are among the very best things on that outstandingly good menu.
But my experience has always been that when one restaurant offers items from two different cuisines on a single menu, chances are excellent that nothing on that menu is going to be worth eating.
Sorry you have trouble with that concept, but that's your problem, not mine.
no need to be so nasty.
no need to be so nasty. elephant walk?
Not the best example
Only the Cambodian side of the menu has things worth eating -- the French side is dull. But since Cambodia (like Vietnam) is a former French colony that has a strong French influence in the local cuisine, that's at least a logical connection. Similarly, the menu at Teranga in the South End has some dishes that wouldn't be out of place on a Vietnamese menu, but that's because intra-colony travel brought a Vietnamese influence to Senegalese food. It's not like they just randomly decided to put spring rolls on the menu.
disagree re: elephant walk.
disagree re: elephant walk. haven't been to teranga.
El Triunfo!
It's some pretty decent grub. Better than Anna's, in my opinion. But that ain't sayin' much since Anna's is naaasty. It's most burritos and the like, so "authentic" is probably not the word I'd use, but it is tasty and I believe they have more authentic items on the menu (although it has, admittedly, been awhile since I've stopped in there)
Tumbs up on El Triunfo
We've eaten there twice. Worth going in for a quick meal.
OM NOM NOM
El Triunfo delivers too. One of our Foodler standbys. The new one probably will deliver too, so folks in the northernmore hoods can use this here clicky interwebs thing to make tacos show up too.