Papi’s Tacos

Papi's Tacos offer a simple line-up of tacos that comes in a set of two. The Pescado has fried dory fish, purple cabbage, pickled carrots and smoked chipotle aioli, wrapped in soft flour tortilla. It was a mixed of vibrant flavours and textures as you get the crunch, the freshness and tanginess from all the elements, with a slight heaty spice from the sauce.

Second time at Papi’s and it’s a casual alfresco setting at the Seah Street outlet.
My favourite taco out of the lot was the grilled fish tacos because it proves a point that you can have a flavourful fish taco without having to deep fry the fillet.
The evening’s soft corn tortillas came in different hues for the different sets we’ve ordered and made me curious if these were in-house made, overall the Mexican food here fare better on the flavors scale that masks the quality of ingredients at a palatable price point.

As tacos are not sufficiently filling for us, we decided to order burritos and The Gringo caught our eyes due to its unique name! This dish is a chicken-based tortilla wrap with marinated chicken, cilantro rice, black beans, pico de Gallo and cheese! The chicken was slightly spicy and added some flavour to the burrito and we liked it! However, the flavour of the chicken and black beans basically overwhelmed the tastes of the other items, as we did not taste any cheese in the wrap.

We also liked the fact that the burritos here were wrapped very tightly and served in a separate paper wrap, which made the dish really convenient to eat. Conversely, we would have created a huge mess out of the burritos served at many other restaurants!

The serving size was pretty generous, however, and we were completely full after finish the burrito. It was way more filling than it looks! The burrito costs $15++, which is pretty standard for restaurant-grade Mexican fare in Singapore and you can be sure that you will get a food coma from this. 😁

We wanted to try out Papi's Tacos as we heard good reviews about their Mexican food! Indeed, the restaurant was fully booked even on a Monday evening and we could only dine for 90 minutes. Hence, be sure to make a reservation beforehand.

For starters, we ordered tortilla chips that came with a guacamole dip. The tortilla chips were decent, but we felt that the avocado post tasted pretty uneven - some parts were almost tasteless whereas other parts were a little too salty!

Nonetheless, it was a pretty decent dish for sharing amongst 2 to 3 pax and it was priced very reasonably at $8++ as well!

Dory is melt in your mouth, I don't think it's grilled cos there's absolutely zero crisp.

The tangy spicy sauce is great but why is it only added to half of each taco? The only thing that impressed here but this detail was unpleasant

This place is packed during lunch. Not very sure why, maybe nostalgia or because there aren't very many mex in Singapore

The brisket is abit dry and rather flavourless. Overall it's very light and fresh because although the beef is mild in every sense, there's still pickled onions and lime

We were not impressed with this at all. Very average, not that it's bad