tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79073370370983095782011-11-27T16:08:15.747-08:00Is your restaurant baaad enough to be featured on Bad to the Bone?Bad to the Bone Vancouvernoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907337037098309578.post-13901316305830065162009-07-05T22:29:00.000-07:002009-07-05T22:46:42.917-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;">El Taco restaurant at Davie and Howe streets is a notch above a rummage through the dumpster and a step below Taco Bell.</span><br />C. L. reports<br /><br />[Zero stars]<br /><br />A mound of garbage looks up at me. My job is to eat it. I'm writing a review of El Taco at Davie and Howe streets.<br /><br />I peel back the burrito's foil. Parts of it stick to the slop inside. The triangles twinkle on the mound of brown-green garbage texture. The whole thing sinks like a foot.<br /><br />While I've never eaten a foot, I venture a guess that the burritos here don't taste much better than bunions. At least feet, some people have fetishes for. Nobody could possibly enjoy this food.<br /><br />It seems old. It's probably rancid. Later in the evening, I'll get sick.<br /><br />Sweating in the lack of air conditioning, I wonder why I'm offering my business to this place.<br /><br />Area residents complain of loud music -- bad folk-salsa -- blaring onto the streets. I know from experience how it pierces through the windows a block away, an unnecessary anti-marketing scheme probably cooked up by the homeless-looking man behind the grill.<br /><br />The facade of the restaurant, in itself, is enough to repel any diner. Plastic palm trees stretch over a foreboding fence obscuring a patio, deserted.<br /><br />And I wonder how this place manages to sell el single taco.<br /><br />[BTB]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">El Taco</span><br />738 Davie St. Vancouver, BC<br />604-806-0300<br /><a href="http://www.dinehere.ca/restaurant.asp?r=2138">DineHere.ca review</a><br /><a href="http://eltaco.ca/">Restaurant's Web Site</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/14/180578/restaurant/Downtown/El-Taco-Vancouver"><img alt="El Taco on Urbanspoon" src="http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/180578/biglink.gif" style="border:none;width:200px;height:146px" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7907337037098309578-1390131630583006516?l=badbonerestaurants.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bad to the Bone Vancouvernoreply@blogger.com2