Blogger vs Fan: Your First Look at Baco Mercat
I’m a huge enough fan of Lazy Ox in DTLA, so much so that I broke my $10 rule just to eat lunch there (even though it clearly isn’t a Midtown Lunch.) So naturally when I heard that its chef, Josef Centeno, was taking the baco- one of his signature items- and building an entire new concept around it, I couldn’t help but be super excited. The baco, which has been described by the L.A. Times as a gyro/taco/pizza hybrid, was invented long before Centeno served them at Lazy Ox as an occasional special, but the only time I’ve ever had one was from the Cart for a Cause Truck. And it was good. Real good. So good that when I heard Baco Mercat was in soft opening mode last week, I had no interest in waiting for them to work out the kinks.
The result? A lunch of hits and misses. The highs weren’t super high, but the lows weren’t super low. And only a dick blogger would nitpick about a meal served during a soft opening period, right? But a more fair-minded eater would probably see the potential, and give them time to work it out. And a fan? Well a fan would gush about how much they love the place. (And, admittedly, I’m a fan.)
Posted at 11:51 am, November 14th, 2011 under Baco Mercat, Downtown.
