Date of Visit: 5/5/2015
We invited a bunch of friends down to PB for Cinco de Taco and were searching for a perfect bar to hang out, eat tacos, and drink margaritas. Since PB Bar & Grill closed, Fat Fish a little too fancy, and Fred’s too crowded, we chanced The Local based off of a sign I saw when grocery shopping the other day. We were pretty excited to see that they were serving tacos.
Upon entering the restaurant, the bouncers asked to see our IDs and then it was a seat yourself experience. The hostess recommended that we go upstairs since, “that’s where the party is.” We went upstairs and got lucky with a table outside on the patio. It was really noisy inside with the live music and enclosed space, but the noise level was much more manageable outside.
For Cinco de Mayo, the special was half off tacos, $5 margaritas, and $3 Dos Equis. This is what our entire table ordered. I was excited to see that they also serve lumpia here, so I’ll have to try that another time.
The five tacos we could choose from were lobster, fish, pork, beef, chicken. Their menu has fancier names, but the wait staff will get the gist if you order by meat type. Since the lobster taco was not half off, our table ordered a mix of the 4 different tacos. We didn’t know what to expect, so Cam, Amit, and Stan ordered 3 each, while Scotty and I ordered 2 each.
I ordered the fish and pork tacos with no white sauce on corn tortillas. I was little concerned about my order since it was very busy, but everything came our perfectly. I also requested the Andale hot sauce, which was HOT. I love hot sauce and this was a great addition to the tacos. In Amit’s words, “it has great tang.” I liked both tacos enough to polish both off, but I liked my pork taco better than the fish taco. Partly because it had a lot of guacamole and partly because the pork tasted very good.
Two important notes. First – the tacos served here are huge. The guys were struggling to eat through their third tacos, so two is more than enough if you are hungry. You can always order another if you’re still hungry after two. Second – the tacos are served with flour tortillas as default. If you want a corn tortilla, you need to request it.
Reviews for the other tacos: Stan was the only one who ordered the chicken taco and he did not like it. He said that it was too sweet for him and the combination wasn’t that good. Everyone else got the beef taco and they also said that it was just okay. Those also came with guacamole, but everyone preferred the pork taco to their beef taco. Our group’s taco ranking: 1) Pork 2) Fish 3) Beef 4) Chicken
The only poor part of our experience was the waitstaff. Since the upstairs is definitely a bar scene, the wait staff was overworked with trying to balance food and drink orders for all the tables and getting tabs out to everyone. The table next to us nearly left without paying their bill! We had to wait a long time for our bill to come and would have been longer if we had requested a split bill. Between 14 tacos, 2 beers, and 2 margaritas, the bill came out to $55, so I just paid for everyone so that we could get out of there faster.
Overall, The Local PB is a chill place to go. If you’re just going for drinks, upstairs is a great place to be, but I would definitely recommend eating downstairs first to avoid confusion with paying your tab off. I’ll probably drag Cam here again so I can try their lumpia.
Website: http://thelocalpb.com/
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