2307 E. Main StreetYou know how I feel about tacos. I just can’t pass them up.
I was driving around the east side of Kalamazoo last week and I passed a taco place like three times. Each time I thought I should stop….but I didn’t.
I got back to the office in downtown Kalamazoo and was suddenly craving tacos. Yes, there are options downtown, but it was the place on the east side that made me want tacos so I went back to get them.
Loco Taco’s is on the corner of East Main Street and Humphrey Street in Kalamazoo Township. The restaurant has been a taco joint for quite a while. It was Lolita’s Tacos for a few years before becoming Loco Tacos earlier this year. Someone on their Facebook page asked back in June if this was new ownership or a name change….they never replied so I can’t answer that question either. The building has a pretty long history of being a food stop on this weird corner. Before Lolita’s it was a Chicago food joint called Big City Food Diner.
There’s very little information on the interwebs about this place…even the Facebook page is pretty bare. I didn’t know if this was going to be a sit down restaurant or a counter service.
It’s kind of both.
When I walked in, there was a waitress in the little vestibule area and asked if I was dining in or picking up a to-go order. I asked if I could put in a to-go order. She took it on her pad then rang my order up at a register just inside the door.
The dining room has changed quite a bit since the last time we ate there when it was Lolita’s. The wall color has been toned down and the white painted furniture has been swapped out for natural wood fixtures. It doesn’t have the stereotypical brightly painted look that so many Mexican restaurants have.
It took about ten minutes for my food to be handed out the window to the waitress who then handed it to me. I grabbed the bag and headed back to the office.
I did what I typically do when I order Mexican food. I just got five steak tacos, Mexican style with onion and cilantro. The waitress asked me if I wanted both red and green sauce. I said just red, so she threw a couple extra reds in for me.
The tacos were exactly what I was wanting. Each one is two corn tortillas filled to the point of overflowing with tender, delicious meat and topped with cilantro and onion. The red sauce gave them a little bit which is exactly what I was looking for. I really like tacos and these tacos were really good.
The cost for my tacos, before tip, was a little over $15.
There are so many good taco places in Kalamazoo. You can go to just about any part of town and find something good. Tacos are simple really all you need to do is not mess them up. Loco Tacos is delicious. We liked them when they were Lolita’s and we like them now.