Margs World Taco Bistro or Margs Wrap Restaurant?
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Margs World Taco Bistro has been on my radar for the last few weeks. It seems that every one of my foodie Facebook friends has done a Foursquare check-in at Margs in the month of July. My friends' reviews and Yelp reviews for Margs actually have not been that great, but that's OK, as my friends also like places that I can't stand and Yelp, well you can only trust maybe 25% of the reviews on that website.
Thursday, I went for drinks and dinner at a business meeting at NORTH in Cherry Creek. That place totally bites, but whatever, this is a review about Margs! Anyway, after the meeting, we were in the mood for some additional beverages and decided to walk over to 1st and Fillmore.
If you haven't been over to Cherry Creek North in a long time, Margs is where the old Einstein's bagel shop was located. Margs shares that enourmous patio area with the Starbucks at Fillmore, you know the one, where you people watch while drinking your morning lattes? That's THE corner in Cherry Creek North. Hello people watching opportunity on the patio! Unfortunately zero tables on the patio that were available for a party of four (it was like 10PM too!). I can never seem to get a good parking place or table lately. Seems there had been some tequila promotion or something, as there had to be 25 people wearing free promotional cowboy hats with some tequila I've never heard of. Anyway, we went inside and some hipsters were paying their bill and we managed to score 4 barstools. Next up, Pacifico and time to look at the taco menu!
Out of the 4 of us, I was the only one eating here. Did I mention we had already eaten dinner at 7PM at NORTH? Ok, well it was 10PM now and I was hungry again. Got a problem with that? The taco menu looked really good. You can go with a 2 taco platter for $8.25 or 3 for $9.95. Comes with rice and beans, so it's not a bad deal. Plus, it's here in CHERRY CREEK, where everything is like $18min for a plate of food.
The Carnitas were also very tasty. Same pork as the Korean Pork tacos, with a pepper salsa, serrano pickled red onions, queso fresco and a bit of lettuce. Yum!
The Margarita Shrimp tacos were a big miss here. I'm not a huge black bean fan or really that much into corn salsa. They are also served with avocado. IMO shrimp tacos, you just have to keep it real simple. Shrimp, queso fresco, cabbage and tortilla. That's it!
From the bartender Doug, I learned that Margs makes their own hand pressed flour tortillas. The torts tasted great. Here's the weird thing though about Margs tacos. They are served on a plate, folded over, and then there's a toothpick inserted in them to hold it together. While this doesn't make the tacos taste any different, I couldn't help but just be a little bit weirded out by it. I felt like I was at the Smiling Moose restaurant eating a Caesar salad wrap. Don't wrap up my tacos please!!!!!! It aggravates me and a lot of others. And the toothpick thing (see my photo at the top of this post), don't place toothpicks in my food unless it's a Tuna Sandwich or something at the local deli.
Asking the staff about the toothpicks and wrap-style tacos, I received the same answer from 3 different employees. Something about that they aren't trying to be a taqueria but want to be a bistro. Huh? Because there are so many bistros famous for their tacos, right? Whatever. I just feel that if they lose this plated presentation, toothpicks, wrap-style and all, they would please their customers ten fold. The employees seemed to give me the impression that they are asked this same exact question over and over. Seems they might want to bring this to the head honcho's attention on the next all-staff-meeting.
Will I be back? Yes! I'll put them on my re-visit list for sometime in September to see if they're still serving up wraps. Yes, unfortunately, that's how I would describe them to another person who is looking for a good taco place in Denver. Actually, if someone asked me "where can I get a really tasty wrap sandwich in Denver?" --- I'd direct them to Margs. I guess it's like if a hot dog place served hot dogs on a French rolls instead of a hot dog buns. Would that be a "Bistro Dog" of some sort?
So that's my 2 cents on Margs. Yes, they should just call themselves Margs, and not Margs World Taco Bistro, whatever that means.
More Info:
Margs
200 Fillmore
Denver, CO
303-321-6274
www.margstacobistro.com
(also a location in LoDo at 1519 Wynkoop)
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