Mexico, Britomart

I'm having a two weeks break from uni, that means time to eat a lot of food and don't stress about the study for awhile now. Food really helps when you're feeling tired, especially if the food is good and you enjoy it with friends. So one Tuesday afternoon, me and my friends decided to try this new place called Mexico in downtown Auckland. They obviously serve mexican food like tacos, quesadillas and corn chips with mexican dips. This place can get busy sometime, especially at night and weekends. When I came it was above 1pm and we can get a place easily.

Honey caramelized pork taco, roasted eggplant, mushroom, spiced tomato

 We have 3 tacos, one each. I have this honey caramelized pork, it's the special during my visit do I decided to try it. It's a little bit more pricey than the tacos in the menu though. It's 8$ each while the tacos in the menu is 6$ each. I like the taco, the filling is a little bit sweet but I like it though. It's also balance because they contain not only meat but also some veggies.

Achiote rubbed beef, citrus cured eschalots

 My friend have this beef taco. He seemed to enjoy it.

Caramel pork carnitas, plantain chips, pico de gallo

Another friend of mine had this pork taco for her lunch. She also seems to enjoy it a lot.

MEXICO's fried chicken

We decided to share this fried chicken, which is one of their specialties. I like this fried chicken too, they were tender and juicy. They give a spicy coating for the chicken, and I must say it is kinda spicy, but I can't stand spicy food even though I am Indonesian and should enjoy eating spicy food. They gave you two sauce for the chicken, they can soothe the spiciness.

Adobo braised lamb, mint, cheese, almond red mojo

After a taco each and fried chicken to share, we still don't feel really full. So we decided to try their quesadilla. I love this! The lamb inside were tender and the cheese melt beautifully. The chili they put on the side is so good too. I think it was sweet rather than being spicy. They also put two different bottles of chili sauce on each table. One is red in color and another one is green. I like the one with green color more, it smells sweet but it will give your food some kick. It went well with my taco which is sweet and I also mix it with the red mojo and put it on my quesadilla.

They also have some dessert, but we decided not to have dessert there. We went to Giapo instead (arguably the best ice cream shop in Auckland). Overall I have a good time and a happy belly here. I can't recommend which dish you should try because all of them is above average. I recommend you to try this place for your next lunch or maybe after drink supper because they are open till late at night.

You can take a peek on their website here, Mexico Britomart