Picaro

10 Reviews on “Picaro”

• Culinary Slut

  The Atmosphere:The restaurant has an attractive modern interior, with lots of high table seating and a few regular tables. There appears to be a room for private events in the back. The servers are friendly, and they seem to pick interesting staff, our server always has a great personality. This is a great place to meet up with friends or have a casual date – this spot has a smart-casual vibe amongst the diners.The Food:We love the food here – its got a lot of authentic Latin elements with creative modern touches applied with a Chefs knowledge of flavors. They also have some vegetarian choices which can make it easy for a mixed crowd to eat together. Two tacos make for the perfect between meals snack. During lunches, you can get them with a soup and salad, which makes for the ideal lunch light. The more substantial fare includes burgers and sandwiches, or rice and beans. The menu does change here are a few more detailed notes:Tuna Tostadas:We hope this never leaves the menu, we could just sit and eat plate after plate of these all night. Tostadas are tortillas fried until crunchy than topped with anything one’s heart desires. They topped it with Ahi tuna, full-flavoured and fresh and served raw, tossed in ponzu (a sauce made with Japanese citrus fruits), and laid on top of creamy chipotle mayo. Piled on are lovely strips of roasted, earthy tasting, mild poblano peppers, and charred leeks ad a lot of nice warm notes. Pickled chayote highlight the Latin nature of the food, this is a type of squash found in South America with a cucumber-like texture. $8.88The Tortillas:While they don’t make their own tortillas in-house, they’re absolutely marvelous. Very much the same texture and flavor of the ones we had homemade in Mexico.Horchata: Horchata is a beverage made by soaking rice and then spiced with things like cinnamon. We love this drink, have buckets of it when we travel in Latin countries and sometimes make it at home. Unfortunately, it’s way, way too sweet here, more suitable as a dessert beverage or something for the kids to enjoy.Cocktails: They’ve always got an exciting list of drinks, everything from the sweet and juicy beverages to the strong and complex is on offer.

  December 27, 2020, 10:24 pm

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• Cristian Fuentes

  Tacos could of used more flavour a little bland but the tortillas were delicious. Kale salad was also bland and the churros need to have the dulce de leche boiled to bring more flavour. The horchata cocktail needs to be revamped its a little off on flavour as well.

  July 6, 2020, 8:40 am

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• KLE

  Finally checked this place out tonight. Enjoyed our experience but werent quite blown away either. I had the trout which was quite good (though the pickled veg were a little weird as a combo with the fish and the yam pure) and filling. My table mates had the chicken tacos (no complaints), and their burger (tasty but too many wet ingredients such as egg made it extremely difficult to eat) We finished off with churros which were quite delicious. Their cocktail menu looks impressive and worth coming back for, but their most robust parts of the menu are smaller items like tacos and appetizers. Worth revisiting for those, but less sold on it as a supper destination

  June 29, 2020, 7:35 am

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