Olecito Restaurant Review

Olecito Restaurant Review – Olecito serves gourmet Mexican street food to go (“para llevar”). The sister restaurant to the upscale Olé across the street, this local favorite may have the best cheap eats in Cambridge. While Olé offers sophisticated items like avocado salsa tuna steak, and pepper-chipotle sea bass, Olecito keeps it simple. The hand-written menu features only burritos, quesadillas, tacos and tortas (grilled sandwiches on telera bread). But these items, made with the finest ingredients by celebrity chef Erwin Ramos are bursting with flavor. With its yellow and pink walls and festive music, this tiny take-out joint – there are only four stools – is all about having fun (their logo is a goofy kid wearing a Mexican wrestler mask). Great choices include the baja battered shrimp taco with pickled cabbage and cilantro pesto; or the marinated steak torta with pinto beans, guacamole and chihuahua cheese. Also excellent is the braised pork burrito ($5.50) stuffed with Mexican rice, guacamole, pico de gallo and jack cheese. Top the meal off with one of their Jarritos Mexican sodas available in fruity flavors like guava, mandarin and pineapple. With its exquisite high quality Mexican food at south-of-the-border low prices, Olecito is the best deal in town.
Olecito, 12 Springfield Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, 617-876-1374.
Open 11am-9pm everyday, cash only.
http://olecito.net/
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