Tacolicious!

Everything about Tacolicious makes me want to use exclamation points! Even though my favorite restaurant in San Francisco was closed by its owners and reopened as Tacolicious 1 month later, I can't get over how much I love this place! The first time John and I stopped in, we ordered queso dip to complement the best salsa (ever) that we were mowing basket after basket of chips devouring. For dinner, we split a plate of 10 tacos ranging from deep-fried fish with cabbage to marinated, pulled short rib with green onion, to shot-and-a-beer chicken—pulled chicken marinated in tequila, tecate and other mind-blowing spices—to traditional carnitas with onion.
A mouth-watering trio of smooth salsas arrives minutes before your tacos, so you can whiff the cilantro in the mild tomatillo salsa, the bite in the habanero salsa and the smokiness of the house-roasted chipotle salsa. This time, I ordered the special taco for April: rabbit with soy beans and crumbly cheese. Rabbit tasted surprisingly different than chicken. It was extremely moist and gamely like lamb but had the same overcooked texture that beef sometimes gets. I also wanted to test out the vegetarian, seasonal taco with asparagus, mushrooms and potatoes. All were great, especially with the fresh corn tortillas each are wrapped in, but the salsa makes the meal. I love their salsa so much I ordered michelada after michelada, Tecate with lime, salt and green salsa! I actually crave Tacolicious on a daily basis. When are we going back?!