If you’re in the mood for fresh, quality Mexican food, it’s now just past Belmont Mansion in Edgehill Village.
Taco Mamacita is an up-and-coming taco restaurant with two locations, one in Chattanooga, Tenn. and the other in Nashville, Tenn. More specifically, Nashville’s Taco Mamacita is located in Edgehill Village, an area of town only about 10 minutes away from Lipscomb’s campus.
The vibe of the restaurant is fun-loving and lively. Patrons have the option of indoor, bar, or patio seating in their street corner location. The noise level inside the restaurant wasn’t loud enough to keep me from conversing with my friends, and it wasn’t quiet enough to make me feel like the tables around me were eavesdropping.
The service was friendly and quick, though it was getting busier when we were leaving around 6 p.m. Our waitress was happy to make recommendations and tell us her favorite dishes.
The menu offers a wide variety of specialty tacos, enchiladas, roasted Peruvian chicken, starters, and sides that differ from the stereotypical Mexican food joint. Some of the available sides were cilantro-spinach rice, charros beans, chipotle turnip greens, and sweet potato fries.
We started out with the mango jalapeño salsa and chips. The chips and salsa are not free, but one shouldn’t expect them to be considering how good they were.
Heeding our waitress’s advice, I ordered the Taco Royale the Oy Vey with the Mexican street corn, while my friend got the chicken enchilada and sweet potato fries.
We could guess by looking at it that our food was made with fresh quality ingredients, and the taste confirmed this observation. Everything we had tasted great and provided us a welcomed break from Sodexo food.
The amount of spice in the food wasn’t enough to bother the average customer, and cilantro was also prominent in all of our dishes.
The price is a little more than one would pay at most other Mexican restaurants, but it’s a decent price for the quality, freshness and taste. The two taco and side combo is $8.99, or $3.99 per taco, $2.50 for chips and salsa, and the rest of the menu falls between $3.99-26.99.
I’m not a big guy, so the tacos were plenty filling for me, but I wouldn’t expect most people to feel they weren’t getting enough food.
The verdict on Taco Mamacita: you should definitely check it out next time you’re craving Mexican food.