Revel is lining up top vendors for its amenities, among them the celebrity chef José Garcés, who will run three restaurants, including a taco truck on the casino floor and a tapas restaurant that overlooks the ocean.
It includes a chicken taco, cheese enchilada, red or green tamale and a panucho — a corn tortilla topped with refried beans and egg, citrus marinated chicken, pickled red onion and cotija cheese.
A meal begins with three sets of amuse-bouche: one evening, these included a tiny taco filled with subtle beet purée and a foam-strewn apricot mousse containing a stratum of balsamic-soaked tapioca.
That growth has prompted fast-food chains such as Taco Bell to offer new breakfast items, including a Waffle Taco, and pushed Dunkin' Donuts to expand aggressively in California.
Like the original Trejo's Tacos, the cantina has plenty of tacos, including a rainbow cauliflower taco with cashew cream and a black pepper tofu taco..
THE TOUCAN & THE LION Gastropub food is given Asian flavors here, including meatballs, a taco (short rib with curry), potpie (goat, also with curry), steamed "drunken" clams, and espresso-glazed pork ribs.
There's no dearth of seafood, including a terrific soft taco of four big, juicy shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico ($18).
The "Mango" appetizer was a meal in itself: it included a crispy beef taco, a hearty garnacha (ground beef spiced with jalapeño and bay leaf mounded on a saucer-size flour tortilla), and a chicken enchilada (an unusual but delicious mix of chicken, potatoes, carrots and beet-tinged cabbage on a fried corn tortilla); pasty guacamole made from overripe avocados was the only weak link.
Prizes included a gift certificate to a taco joint called Macho Taco, a pair of Vibram FiveFingers Shoes and a gaudy trophy with what looks like a man on the top.
Lunch entrees, around $4.50, include a crisp, fresh turkey taco salad served on a soft grilled flour tortilla bigger than the plate, and six different fat burritos, many smothered in piquant chili rojo.
