Taqueria El Charrito/128 Pearl Street/ Chelsea, MA 02150

Not that solid.  Not awful, but considering the amount of competition in the immediate surrounding area, not much worth the trip either. Now I'll be the first to admit that I tend to limit myself at most Guatelsalvadorexican restaurants to the three tacos that I got here, but that's because A: I can't try everything on the menu everywhere I go and B: I happen to like chicken, steak, and lengua tacos. Especially tongue.  I like an occasional carnitas taco thrown in too, purely for its health benefits.  I also generally have a hard time with people that label what they are about to say (especially if the say "A,B, and 3" or "1,2 and C"), but I felt that it was quite appropriate in this instance.

Not great Steak, Chicken, & Lengua Tacos

Not great tacos minus one plus hot sauce

And for those of you that think I have tiny plastic taco pieces that I artfully put together a little bit differently in one of my standard take-out size styrofoam boxes that I keep in the closet for each one of these places that I claim to have visited, you are sorely mistaken.  I realize that tacos almost always look like tacos, but if you look at all of pictures I have posted, each place has its own subtle take on what the taco should be.  Take the radishes, for example.  Not every Guatelsavadorexican restaurant gives you radishes if you don't ask.  And I didn't.  I happen to love radishes with tacos, but that alone won't make me stray from my opinion that this place really doesn't have great tacos.  All the meat was drier than it should have been, except the chicken, which is odd.  Not much flavor to speak of, but it is almost as though they know that and give you their green hot sauce to fix that problem.  See I am most often of the opinion that the majority of places, however bad, have some sort of saving grace.  If they sold this green sauce by the bottle I would buy up a bunch of it for all the Mexican food that I don't know how to make.  It's REALLY good.  But, sadly, I would bring it around with me just to put it on other places' food.  Oh well.  You can't win 'em all.