El Charlatan: Taqueria y Ramen-Ya

This restaurant is newly opened for 7 months, serving fusion mexican-japanese-korean food, located in a historic building. Full of characters inside, friendly staff knows their menu very well. The kitchen, the dining area and the restrooms r inside out neat, with excellent cleanliness. Well flavoured food, fresh ingredients. Little quiet spot for family and friends or a date, highly recommended. Make sure u reserve a table ahead.

My husband and me were really looking forward to trying out El Charlatan, after finding them in Instagram. We had reservations for Saturday night, and when we got there our table was ready, the decorations in the restaurant were really nice. We really enjoyed the ambience of the place and the new concept of the menu. We were really disappointed with the actual flavor of the food as it lacked flavor. We ordered the guacamole, pork baos, the Bourdain ramen and the samurai ramen. All of which didn't have any distinct flavor, and the ramen being tasteless and the noodles were very hard to chew. We really tried to like this place, but we wouldn't come back or recommend it for the price being so high.

I want to start off this review by stating that I usually try to have as little expectations of a place as possible because I feel like it will sway my rating but from all of the good reviews and good things I had heard about this place I had good hopes. I was met with almost tasteless ramen, a 56 minute wait, and 3 pork belly baos that I thought were incredibly overpriced for the amount and honestly just didn't taste that great. My girlfriend took me here for a date and we unfortunately didn't realize how popular this place can be and there were literally no reservations available so we had to order to go but luckily they had a partnership with the bar across the street Three Missions Brewery. I thought the inside was small but looked really nice and fun for a restaurant of that size. We waited over at the brewery and had a good time but noticed the food was taking a while so we messaged the place on Instagram which was super responsive which I thought was really awesome. Needless to