Tacos Y Mas! - Compton, CA

Appearance(7):  The Nachos had a generic look to them, not that this is necessarily a bad thing.  All the ingredients that make these Nachos what they are were there and I was ready to start digging in. Cheese and carne asada and pico de gallo were spread throughout and there were plenty of jalapeños to be found.

Quality of Ingredients(6):  On this occasion I ordered the carne asada Nachos.  The carnes asada was cooked medium and had no special flavor to it.  The refried beans didn’t have too much to them, but they got the job done.   The Velveeta cheese was nice and melty, but again, it had a normal taste to it.   There was shredded American cheese that was straight out of a bag of preprocessed cheese.  There was also pico de gallo throughout, which was mainly composed of onions but had a decent taste.  Although not on the Nachos, the salsa bar contained, among salsas and chiles, some of the best guacamole I’ve had in a long time.  It had just the right amount of cilantro, lime, salt and mayo and was the chunky kind.   The chips had probably been sitting out for a while, but they weren’t too stale.

Distribution of Toppings(6):  Although the carne asada and refried beans were nothing special, there was plenty to go around.  The salsa bar had plenty of pico de gallo and delicious guacamole, so you could serve yourself as much as you wanted.  The cheese was distributed just enough to cover most of the chips, although I did have a few dry chips left over.  They also included a side of chips with the Nachos.  Sure, this may seem like an odd side but considering you could get as much guacamole as you wanted, this didn’t seem like a bad thing.  The chip to topping ratio varied depending on how many extras you put on, but you could easily put a little over 1/3 of toppings on each chip and have enough to go around.

Price(7):  For $6.69 and the amount of actual toppings that was available, the price was actually pretty good.  If you were too share these Nachos everybody would get plenty of the good stuff (if you consider generic ingredients good stuff), but the best part to me was the guacamole.  I can’t stress how good it was and how awesome it was too be able to eat as much as one wanted.

Overall(26/40):  The Nachos were not great, but they were not tasteless either.  However, thanks to the help from the salsa bar these Nachos made it out of the generic category to a step above.  Considering there are not too many delicious Nacho options in Compton, I would recommended to anyone that’s chillin’ with their homies down there.

-iwst99

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