Taqueria Tijuana

After reading reviews online about Mexican restaurants in Omaha, we decided to check out Taqueria Tijuana, a restaurant on 24th St and Q with 5-star ratings on both Yelp and Urban Spoon. We went into the restaurant and sat down at a table. We were sitting there for about 5-7 minutes before anyone came to assist us. I wanted to order horchata but they were out, so I ordered a mango drink instead. They brought out four bowls before our meal. One had a spicy red salsa, one had a green sauce that tasted like pureed jalapenos, a bowl of grilled jalapenos, and a bowl with limes and radishes.

It was almost like they were trying to torture me, because they brought out all of these things but never brought any chips for me to dip in the salsa. For anyone who knows me really well, they know that I LOVE chips and salsa. To go to a Mexican restaurant and be served all of these delicious looking things but nothing to dip them in is just sad!

Shane ordered menudo, a tripe soup with a red chile broth. It tasted as if the tripe had not been cleaned, and the broth tasted almost dirty. This was our first time to order menudo, and will probably be our last time. Shane literally ate about 10 bites of this dish and left the rest on the table. It was just too gross to eat. Shane says that he thinks this is what menudo was suppose to taste like, but that it just wasn't for him.

I ordered three tacos (one carne asada, one al pastor, and one cachete) and a side of Mexican rice. The rice was good, but tasted just like the rice you get from Taco Bell. The tacos were also good, but they were nothing compared to Tacos el Peligro around the corner. Shane ate most of the cachete taco, since he liked it significantly more than I did. The al pastor was good, but was missing the pineapple I have had in other al pastor. The carne asada was good as well, but would have been better with thicker pieces of steak. I really enjoyed the avocodo sauce on the tacos, but would have liked some pico de gallo to add to them. 

This restaurant was a huge disappointment from the great reviews we had read online, and the wait staff was very slow and inattentive to us. Shane used the restroom and came out with the most disgusted look on his face, saying he would wait till we got home since something "blew up" in there.

We paid at the counter and I noticed that they had refilled their container of horchata so I decided to order one to go. By far, the horchata was the best thing I got from Taqueria Tijuana, and I will not recommend this restaurant to anyone.