New restaurant in Hong Kong: Los Sotano, Central - tasty Mexican food but the tiny tacos are hit and miss
Los Sotano serves the tiniest tacos we’ve ever seen and the tortillas do not hold up well. Luckily there are some good fillings, and a decent selection of main courses to make up
Los Sotano might be famous for its selection of tequila and mescal, but the basement space – accessed either through the ground floor Cali-Mex on D’Aguilar Street (the staff will lead you to the stairs) or a concealed entrance on Wo On Lane – also serves a selection of Mexican dishes.
My guest and I are both from Los Angeles, California and miss Mexican food, so we were excited when we looked at the menu.
We refused to order the expensive guacamole (although we were curious about what made it so special to cost HK$150) and went for several types of tacos to start instead. We asked if we could have corn tortillas instead of flour, but were told that wasn’t an option.
They were the tiniest tacos we’ve ever seen. The flour tortillas were also rather flabby (they should have been griddled longer) and didn’t hold up to the wetter fillings.
Tucking into the first two tacos did nothing to lift our spirits. The tortilla disintegrated under the carnitas (slow-roasted pork belly, HK$50), which was too finely chopped. The pescado (beer battered fish with mango salsa and pico de gallo, HK$50) had batter that was too thick.
