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Cartel Battersea – Taqueria & Tequila Joint
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Fresh to the area and mustering up all the bare brick you can handle, Cartel Battersea offer up a teasing of tacos just south of the river.
Between us we shared the the tofu with black bean and roasted tomato in chipotle sauce, the roasted plantain and butternut squash with pumpkin seed salsa, and the Baja Fish with tempura battered cod fillet with avocado salsa, pico de gallo and lime mayo (£7) all set alongside with a helping of sweet potato fries and an asparagus, peppers and chipotle mayo quesadilla.
Immediately impressed with the texture of tofu, baja fish and plantain, Cartel weren't shy on heaping the ingredients and backing up each with a mayo/salsa that complimented perfectly.
While slowly but surely making their way on to the Battersea scene, i've got pretty high hopes for a taqueria like Cartel.
Not only do they know how to treat tequila and mezcal with grace, their tacos are affordable, offer a really unique variety onto London's ever-growing Mexican scene and they can churn out baja better than i've seen in a while.
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Cartel is a late-night tequila bar & taqueria that boasts an extensive tequila-based cocktail menu and specialises in authentic, hand-pressed tacos.
The venue was inspired by the traditional taqueria: a street food stall offering inexpensive tacos and other Mexican dishes served without pomp and ceremony but packed with flavour.
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Mezcal and tacos are achingly, unavoidably ‘in’ at the moment, so it was a surprise that Cartel – a Battersea joint specialising in both – was near empty on my Thursday night visit.
A shame really, as it’s a pretty nifty place: bare-brick walled, with faux Mexican ephemera dotted about, and party-ready.
This is primarily a place for knocking back cocktails (or straight spirits – there’s a hidden mezcal tasting room that staff can grant permission to), and the drinks are good.
Pasión del Mezcalero was warming, citrussy and heady with alcohol while a Tommy’s Margarita (with agave in place of triple sec) was a zesty foil to the food, the highlights of which were moreish chorizo-stuffed quesadillas and brilliant mango-topped and pulled-pork-piled corn tacos.
Excellent booze food, basically.