Campos Tacos

I've found my new favorite place to eat.

I love the fact that I live in a small town that is starting grow; you get all kinds of neat new things and new places to eat. We recently had another restaurant join our community, Campos Tacos. It's in the little strip mall next to CVS and Chicago's Pizza, and it's a small place, but it has big taste.

Now, if you're thinking you're going to walk in and find Qdoba, Jr. or even something like Taco Bell, you're wrong. Totally different thing. This is what tacos are all about: flat corn tortillas (soft though, not crunchy) topped with your choice of chicken, steak, refried beans, and a few things that I'm not familiar with, and instead of lettuce, tomato, and cheese, you'll find chopped white onion and cilantro as your toppings. I'm not a fan of commercialized Mexican food, and in my opinion most Americans have pedestrian views on what good food is.

Anyway, like most other Mexican restaurants, you start of with a basket of chips and salsa. They bring two kinds to the table. One is more of a verde kind of sauce and the other, my favorite, is the chunky tomato, cilantro, onion salsa. For just over 2 bucks, you can get a big glob of the best guacamole within a 50 mile radius. It's not the bird-poop kind, either. It has chunks of tomatoes in it, too. Are you seeing a pattern? Love those 'maters. Okay, so get the guac. It's yummy. And it's made fresh; I know this because I've had it twice this week and it was slightly more lemony the second time. Yummmm.

The other thing I really, really like is the fact that you can buy bottled Coke. Mexican Coke, to be more exact, which is made with sugar, not that high fructose bullshit. Of course I just get water, but Aaron loves the fact that he can actually drink a Coke somewhere every now and then. They also have non-alcoholic bottled Sangria. Yum.

Okay so back to the menu...I haven't tried it all yet, but of the things I have had (a refried bean burrito, which was huge--too huge if I'm being completely honest; and the bean taco) the taco is my favorite so far. And they're priced reasonably, too. For around $10, Aaron and I can eat until we're stuffed. And that's not easy to do! Tacos are $1.75 each, and two of them are too much for me. One and a half would be perfect. I guess that's just another reason to get a take-home box or just order one and pig out on the guacamole. The chicken and the steak is amazing as well. I have been caught breaking my vegetarian lifestyle for a couple chicken tacos.

Campos Tacos...try it! Don't go in expecting your pedestrian taco joint. It's anything but that, at least as far as Central Indiana is concerned. Go hungry and come out happy!