Well, I know what you're thinking...... it's been forever since we've done a review. Our apologies. Life and work are in the way right now. We're still eating tacos every week, but we've really just been enjoying our faves as of late (Pollo Express, Taco Fajita, Los Compadres to name a few). I've been on Thing 1 and Thing 2 to get to some new spots, but ever since Chris decided to get a real job, coordinating a lunch between the 3 of us has been harder than normal. So, when Chris said he wanted to hit the taco special at Whiskey Dick's last week, I (reluctantly) agreed. We haven't had much luck with "non Mexican" restaurants for tacos. But like I said, it's been forever since we wrote something up and this seemed like a good chance to try.
If you've never been to WD's, it's basically what you would imagine with a name like that: a hole in the wall bar joint that serves up drinks and bar food. They seemed to have a decent crowd for lunch on this day, so I hoped that would be a good sign. Tacos are on special on Thursdays and since I wanted to make a thorough tasting I went ahead and asked for one of each kind: chicken, pork, ground beef, shrimp, and fish. I was pleasantly surprised to find more than just ground beef tacos. After a short wait our tacos showed up in a basket with salsa on the side. I decided to start with the chicken taco. This taco was plain, just meat only. I thought the flavor was decent but the taco was the first one I grabbed and it was already lukewarm. Also, it looked pretty bare in that shell and really could've used more meat. Still, it had decent flavor. Next was the pork taco, which had some pico on top. This one could've also used more meat, but I enjoyed the flavor. Had an apple cider tinge to it that I liked. Ground beef was next. Typical really, basically like every other ground beef taco I've had at a bar. Lettuce, tomato, cheese. Nothing special, but at least this one was filled with plenty of beef. Last ones were the fish and shrimp tacos. Both of these were topped with a pretty onion-y slaw. Personally, I thought the fish taco was the better of the two. The slaw and fish went together much better than the shrimp, which didn't have enough flavor and got overpowered by the slaw. The fish on the other hand had a decent flavor to the breading that mixed better with the slaw and seemed to take some of the onion edge off.
Overall, I would say the tacos were decent for a local hole in the wall bar joint, but they don't compare to the authentic tacos we prefer. On the plus sides, our service was attentive and friendly and the price was reasonable: my entire order above was under $9.00 before the tip. My overall rankings on the 5-Taco Scale are below.
Food Quality - 2.5 Tacos
Price - $
Value - 3.5 Tacos
Cleanliness - 3.0 Tacos
Service - 4.5 Tacos
Overall Experience 2.5 Tacos
Likelihood to Return - 2.5 Tacos
