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del 74 tacos - London On The Inside
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More of a bar than a place to eat, Del 74 Tacos opened quietly on Lower Clapton Road last year as a Sunday pop-up and has now gone permanent – when we say quietly we mean in terms of awareness, there’s defo nothing quiet about the place.
In fact it’s quite the opposite with banging tunes, margaritas, Mexican beers, shots and a small Mexican menu.
We’ve heard on the grapevine that Nuno Mendes had a hand in creating the menu which features just 6 tacos, 3 quesadillas and fresh guacamole.
We sampled a lamb barbacoa taco, heavy on the slowed cooked lamb and topped with a scattering of onions and the fish taco which was filled with crunchy homemade slaw washed down with a couple of watermelon margaritas.
If you’re out in Clapton it’s a great little spot for booze, vibes and bar food.
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The theme of Del 74 is chilled out, friendly vibes, from everything like the tip jar underneath a basketball hoop behind the bar to a menu packed with small but delicious plates.
The interiors are all about 70s-style summer vibes, featuring beer barrels round tables, simple wooden furnishings and odd little decorations like the green gnome standing on the bar.
For food, the menu offers up a selection of quesadillas and tacos, with fillings like slow-cooked leg of lamb or crispy sweet potatoes.
There’s also bar snacks such as tortilla chips and fresh guacamole, and to drink there’s margarita cocktails, tequila, mezcal and Mexican beers.
Del74, Clapton: restaurant review | Foodism
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While many of the new wave of Mexican joints play with larger plates, Del74 sticks to what it does best: slow-cooked, deliciously seasoned meat and/or veg in a soft flour tortilla.
You could grab a shot of mezcal, which you might well be offered on the house by your waiter.
We loved one made with smoky mezcal and freshly pressed watermelon juice – gluggable, sweet without being sickly, and totally refreshing.
The fish taco, made with river-dwelling tilapia, is all earthy flavours, a root vegetable 'slaw lending it crunch, too.
Jackfruit is characteristically meaty for a vegan option, shoved inside a soft tortilla with crispy shoestring sweet potato.
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Del 74 is a new taqueria in Clapton - and they have margaritas ...
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In a nutshell: Tacos, beers and margaritas with a neighbourhood vibe Summing it all up: Lower Clapton Road is the home of a new taqueria, as the taco trend spreads north east in London.
Mexican food fans will be able to try pork pibil, while veggies can get stuck into a jackfruit taco, with cucumber margaritas and micheladas to wash it all down.
Their aim to “keep it simple, keep real” which they’ll be doing by the virtue of a super short menu: just tacos, beer and those all important margaritas.
Taco fillings will be traditional, and include sauteed tilapia with homemade salsa, barbacoa with slow cooked leg of lamb with coriander, and one for the veggies made with sweet potato and jackfruit, a curiously meat-like fruit that grows in tropical regions.
They’re rather proud of their cochinita pibil taco, which pairs braised leg of pork with guacamole and red pickled onions.
Del 74 | Bars and pubs in Hackney, London
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Apart from a small, brightly-coloured sign, Del 74 – a pop-up bar and taqueria that’s gone permanent – is pretty inconspicuous from the outside.
A green gnome and inflatable cactus sit on the bar, which is lit up with pink and purple lights, while the walls are adorned with even more inflatable things (a banana, naturally), a bike and prints with a Californian vibe.
And while it’s not often that a bar’s toilet is worth mentioning, with bright, flashing fairy lights, an inflatable parrot and a radio pumping out the tunes, the loo is like a mini disco.
They keep things simple on the food front, too, with a few well-crafted bar snacks.
The bar itself is fairly small, so get there early if you want to nab a table.