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Time Out says
Wed Oct 24 2012
The bustling atmosphere of Brixton Market is the perfect spot for Casa Morita’s down-home cooking and friendly atmosphere. Careful ordering can deliver a lively, tasty and affordable night out in one of London’s hottest restaurant scenes.
Start with a refreshing Mexican beer or tamarind soda, and creamy chilli-laden guacamole. House-fried tortilla chips were beautifully crisp without a hint of grease – perfect! But the quality of dishes varied enormously: mole tacos featured shredded chicken in a superbly sweet, fragrant spiced sauce – ideal.
Tacos with chorizo had rich, spicy ground sausage enlivened with onion, coriander and guacamole garnish. Tacos de Alambre, however, supposedly inspired by Mexico’s Lebanese immigrants, featured lacklustre tiny cubes of beef overcooked with red and yellow peppers and bacon and smothered in cheese; the dish tasted more like a non-kosher Philly cheesesteak than a Mexican speciality. Desserts of Mexican crème caramel and lime meringue pie were well worth the calories.
Erratic service, a problem when the Casa launched, seems to have been sorted out; on our visit, wait staff were attentive and helpful. We hope that the menu will be similarly refined.
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