Kiko's Place

One month ago I dropped everything in Houston and moved to San Diego, California. The beaches, the sunsets, the palm trees, the weather... everything about San Diego is beautiful. That includes the food.

In San Diego, the amount of Mexican restaurants is incredible. And I thought Texas had Mexican food. Here, with the border only a couple of miles away, you can really feel the Mexican influence in the restaurant scene. It's more than just "fusion" Mexican (like Tex-Mex), here you can actually get original Mexican food, and it's everywhere. More importantly, it's always delicious.

Appetizer

I haven't been here for long, but I already have favorites. Kiko's Place, a food truck on Texas St, is one of them. My boyfriend took me there once, so that I could try the mixed seafood taco. He told me I would only need one, to which I agreed to, very suspiciously. Tacos are usually small. I am used to having two to three tacos in order to feel satisfied. How could I have a meal consisting of one taco?

We ordered our mixed seafood tacos, which are $4 each. We were offered a cup of soup while we waited. The soup is a seafood, tomato-based broth with pieces of green bell pepper, celery, onion and tomatoes. If you're lucky, it could have a shrimp or piece of fish in it (I have never been lucky :( ) It's always super hot, which means I may or may not have burnt my tongue a couple of times. It's a nice little appetizer, and I would even go as far to say it's a palate opener (yes, I went there. Deal with it.)

Biggest taco EVER

Then, the tacos arrived. And it was the biggest taco I have ever seen in my life. I don't even think that could be called a taco. It's huge. So, I did the only thing I could do: I picked up a fork and dug in. And it was so. Good. There were shrimp, scallops, a mussel on the shell, octopus, marlin... all of the seafood inside of two corn tortillas, stacked on top of each other. The seasoning is similar to the broth, but more concentrated. Very concentrated. It's super well-seasoned, to the point where there is no need to add any salsas, or lime, or anything. It's ready to eat. And so delicious. The seafood is cooked to perfection, the shrimp is crunchy and tasty, the baby scallops are all over the place, the octopus... YUM. I may or may not go there today... hum...

The only bad thing about this taco is the celery. I am not a big fan of celery - I will eat it, but it bothers me when there's too much of it. In the taco, the amount of seafood easily overwhelmed the amount of celery, but I still took most of it out. 

I loved it so much, I went back two days later to try the other options they had. I found out that the spicy mixed seafood taco is better than the normal mixed seafood taco. The amount of "kick" is perfect! It complements the rest of the seasoning so well. Amazing, amazing, even more amazing.

Then, a couple weeks later, I tried their fish taco. One breaded fish filet with pico de gallo on top and some kind of white sauce. Delicious! But smaller - consider yourself warned.

Kiko's Place

Fish tacos - YUM

A couple of fish tacos will suffice if you're not THAT hungry, but if you are, I would order more. It's $1.75. It's so cheap! And so worth it! Every bite.

"Restaurant": Kiko's Place

Food: Great

Service: Great

Price: $