Cazadores

In town for a short trip, saw a review for this place, was NOT disappointed! Cannot recommend enough, food was excellent and the best I’ve had in years.

Man, I’ve been missing good Mexican food since I’ve been down here. I’ve asked around, and people either try to send me to gringo-​Mex places or, in the case of the couple of chefs I’ve asked, tell me there’s no good Mexican on the Gulf Coast. How can that be? It’s the Gulf of freaking MEXICO, isn’t it? What’s up with that?
Well I just happened to be driving east on Pass through Biloxi the other day, and just before committing a federal crime by driving onto an air force base without permission, I saw a little taqueria. It was the first Mexican restaurant I’ve seen on the coast that doesn’t advertise margarita specials on bright signs out front or have a name that includes «agave» or «amigo» or «loco,» the first that doesn’t seem to be trying to draw the kind of people who visit the tourist strip in Tijuana and think they’ve been to Mexico.
So in we went, my wife and I, opened up the menu, and look Ma, Mexican food! A real taqueria! None of this three tacos on a plate, all with the same filling, with rice and canned beans for 10.95. There’s a choice of meats (asada, lengua, buche, chicharron, al pastor, chicken, carnitas, and maybe one more I forgot), and you can get them in tacos, or tortas, or sopes, or huaraches. I think they even had gorditas, though I pretty much stopped at the taco page. I came down here from Omaha (yes, believe it or not, Omaha is a Midwest Mexican food Mecca, where I had my choice of any number of taquerias and Mexican/​Central American grocers), and boy I’ve missed those taquerias.
I wound up ordering four tacos, asada, lengua, al pastor, and carnitas. The pastor was a bit rich for me (not spicy, just rich, hard to finish even the one, and no pineapple… dock ten points), but the rest were quite good. Basic taco truck fare, if you know what that’s like. They came with soft corn tortillas (slightly fried to give them a bit of a crisp exterior, something I’ve not run into before, but good), cilantro, and onion, just like they’re supposed to! And they had a lovely salsa bar with a bevy of homemade salsas to dress whatever you order. Real deal stuff. Oh, and big 1-​liter Mexican Cokes to wash it down with.
So why three stars? Well, a couple of those taquerias in Omaha were like going to heaven (heaven where the servers don’t speak English or accept credit cards, but heaven nonetheless), and this place isn’t at that level. But if it were down the street from my house, I’d eat there once a week until I got sick of it. A-​OK is what three stars means, and A-​OK it is. My world just got a little bit brighter.