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TA Cocina

New York, New York, United States

TA Cocina is a Mexican restaurant located in midtown manhattan on 9th avenue. TA Cocina offers pretty good quality Mexican food at reasonable prices. There's nothing extraordinary about it, but everything we had was pretty good.

Dress

Very casual

Cost

Most restaurants on 9th avenue are quite affordable, and TA Cocina is no exception (although it may be a bit more expensive than the average 9th avenue restaurant).

Reservations

When we visited, around 6:30pm on a Sunday, the restaurant was mostly empty.

Items Ordered

Nachos

These nachos were nicely fried, and lightly salted. They were served with a dish of salsa. The salsa was quite liquidy, and not too spicy.

Enchiladas (2)

With melted cheese on top, sour cream and stuffed with your choice of: grilled steak, grilled chicken breast, or vegetarian. Red sauce, green sauce, or mole sauce.

The enchiladas were pretty good. I didn't request a sauce, so by default they were served with the red sauce. I ordered them with grilled steak. The steak was quite flavorful. The enchiladas came with a small plate of rice and beans.

Mixed Fajitas

Grilled sirloin steak and chicken breast, over sauteed vegetables served with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, jalapenos, mozzarella cheese, and flour tortilla

The mixed fajitas were very large. Two small eaters in our group were able to share them (with a bit left over). The steak was tastier than the chicken, although both were pretty good. There was a good amount of vegetables mixed in with the meat too - including peppers, zucchini, carrots, and onions. The fajitas are good value.

Banana Chimichanga

Deep fried rolled flour tortilla filled with banana, served with vanilla ice cream and orange sauce

We weren't really hungry for a dessert, but the banana chimicanga sounded interesting. It comes with four pieces of fried tortilla filled with banana, and a scoop of ice cream. It's a pretty good combination - not overly heavy, but still nice and sweet.