Before I address the industrial soap that must have fallen into the salsa (no joke), or the…read moreoverpriced food that bears no approximation to Mexican food, I will give Taco Bar this: they serve cheap and semi-decent cava, so that is what is most redeeming about them.
I didn't have high expectations for this chain, but for about 14 times the cost, a burrito here makes a Taco Bell bean burrito seem like a Michelin star delicacy. It's criminal.
There was clearly an accident with hand soap and the salsa. I honestly should have alerted them to the weirdness, bc something clearly went majorly wrong in the kitchen.
The guacamole was terrible and cheap, the chips cheap and stale.
Europe just cannot get Mexican food down, I am not sure why (esp. with all of the convenient ills of 21st century capitalism, e.g. boats that ship ingredients from Mexico? IDK). All of the ingredients are inauthentic: the beans (do they even use beans in European Mexican food?), the non-existent peppers, the no-cilantro, the salsas, the rice, the everything.
I think Europe pictures Mexican food as Spanish food with a flour tortilla--that's my best deduction based on decades of trying to find Mexican food in Europe. And Sweden is just hopeless on this front. Like, yikes.
Taco Bar reminded me of a mix of cheap tapas and kebab flavors, with the guacamole quality found only at a gas station. Just why.
This is what I really don't understand: if your entire business is about Mexican food, then why not 1. make it remotely Mexican, 2. offer food that is not of the shittiest quality, turning a massive profit on a mediocre dish. I mean, maybe try to produce non-cardboard for human consumption..?
Literally, the worst so-called Mexican food IN MY LIFE.
But grab a class of cava, or a beer. Just beware the soap salsa.