I have been hearing nothing but great things about Bartaco and discovered that now there is a location Hingham now. Thought why the heck not give it a try?
We visited tonight at around 6:30pm and had to wait a little over an hour for a table. They were pretty packed around the time we went. We decided to walk around to all the shops to kill some time & at 8pm we finally received a text that there's a table ready.
I really liked their ordering system! They have the standard QR code at each table & you can order through the site. If you need anything, there's a card you can put up & it flags one of the staff members to assist you.
What we ordered: We tried a couple different tacos, including the chorizo, pork belly, Baja fish, & their birria duck tacos.
The meats were not bad & not dry but the tacos could've benefited from some extra sauce, like a creamy aioli of some sort? Just felt like they were missing something. As for the duck birria tacos, I wasn't impressed. At first, I thought there wasn't any cheese at all but found out there in fact was, just very little amount. The tacos were also VERY DRY & duck was also very dry. Tacos were overcooked to the point of tasting like rubber unfortunately.
Dessert: We decided to try two of the dessert items, key lime pie & tres leches. We ordered both of them at the same time we ordered the tacos. We were not sure if they'd bring the dessert at the same time the tacos were served & they didn't serve it at the same time so we then thought okay so they're coming after we finish the tacos? Cool.
Negative. The desserts were forgotten and we waited almost 30 minutes. We then asked two workers to see if our desserts were coming and the first worker did not come back actually lol.
The second worker we asked found out that we had been waiting almost a hour, so I guess the desserts were supposed to have came the same time the tacos came.
The desserts were okay. Not too sweet so that was great. The key lime pie one was much better than the tres leches though.
Overall, my experience at bartaco was a 5/10. I don't know how to feel about it to be honest. It was a lot of waiting & the food was mediocre at best. I think this location just recently opened so it's all good.
Maybe will give bartaco a try again, but their other locations. read more