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Ay Cocula
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
2 reviews for Ay Cocula
Maybe I was starving for REAL Mexican food. Maybe good Mexican restaurants in California (where I live now) are as rare as an honest politician...or maybe I was just hungry. Whatever the case, Ay Cocula is one of the most authentic Mexican restaurants on either side of the border.
Never in my wildest dreams would I ever have considered stopping at Ay Cocula! had it not been for the fact that my brother (who'll eat anything that isn't nailed, stapled, glued, welded or epoxied to the earth) told me that I would really like this place. As much as I hate to admit that my brother, "Ol' Iron Gut" was right, he was right.
Their tacos are orders of magnitude better than Chico's. Their salsa and beans are much more than the usual fare that you'd find at any other restaurant. The tacos were filled with tender ground beef, seasoned to perfection, and served folded between warm corn tortillas.
The prices are extremely reasonable, and the atmosphere at lunch had me dancing as I entered and as I left.
Love this place!
Update:
Was there on the Saturday before Mother's Day, 2009. This place really is good. I had to have the taco "six-pack" - six tacos served with avocado, grilled onions, radishes, lettuce and tomato - all on the side. You "build your own" taco, but you build it to your taste.
My wife and I added queso fundido (much more ooeey-gooey-schmooey than fondue) to our meal. As will all great-tasting meals, you'll probably have to be rushed to the ER with instantaneous closure of your arteries, but it's well worth it.
New promise to self: make Cocula a stop any time I'm in El Paso.
Holy shit! The salsa hits you hard in TX. Not a heat that slowly creeps up on you. You taste it immediately. Between Ay Cocula and Andale, El Paso left a good impression on me on how salsa should be. I tried the Asado de Puerco, which is a roast pork unlike al pastor. Served in a chili-garlic sauce it was good, but suffered from too much salt. The campechana (seafood cocktail) that I had was a healthy serving of shrimp, scallops, octopus, imitation crab, avocado, onions, and cilantro, mixed in a tasty cocktail sauce. The chips were of the thick crunchy variety...one wrong move and I could chip a tooth. The tacos served here are supposed to be authentic...served in a corn tortilla with fresh grilled/bbq'd meats. They were good, but I still like Los Caporales in Livermore. All in all, an authentic Mexican eatery worth stopping in for a meal. And apparently, open very, very late on the weekends as well.