You’d be hard pressed to find tastier, fresher tacos than the ones served up at Los Molcajetes. For a piddly $4 I feasted on two of them, one chicken, one al pastor.

Bundled in doubled up soft corn tortillas (preventing the tacos from breaking), each was stuffed with juicy diced meat, onions, cilantro, sliced radish and carrots, accompanied by a lime wedge and two sauces — a mild salsa verde and a kickier red sauce.

Awesome eating. And messy: juices and sauce streaming down fingers and chin, meat and veggies falling every which way. Indelicate, no doubt, but I view tacos in the same way that I view pizza — that it’s food best eaten with your hands, and the only way to truly experience the flavors and textures is to get your mouth right up in there and spray stuff all over yourself.

So that’s what I did.

Los Molcajetes
211 Liberty Sq.
Norwalk, CT
203-831-9921

Got my first look and taste of SoNo at a recent lunch meeting at Strada 18 on Washington St.  I arrived early and walked around to see what was doing. Many interesting looking restaurants: Mexican, tapas, a Wasabi (sister of the Nyack location), and a Ginger Man, among others.

Strada 18, a pizza and wine bar, had a buzzing lunch scene going on.  We shared a hot appetizer of arancini — fried rice balls.

And I ordered the gorgonzola and caramelized onion pizza.

A crisp thin crust, and a nice contrast of flavors between the salty gorgonzola and the sweet caramelized onions. Those onions were great; I wish there’d been more of them.

We Westchesterians can sometimes be a provincial bunch. We’re willing to venture south to Manhattan, but Connecticut… what’s that?  From all appearances, there seems to be a lot going on there — maybe instead of south, we should be going north.

Strada 18
122 Washington St.
Norwalk, CT
203-853-4546