TO-CE-CHI – The Freshmaker
Posted 2009/08/26
By Taco Show Host
TO-CE-CHI
4521 Kostoryz Rd
Corpus Christi, TX 78415
(361) 225-2585
TO-CE-CHI
4521 Kostoryz Rd
Corpus Christi, TX 78415
(361) 225-2585
A while back a few of us tacoteurs gathered one morning to sample the fare at a spot that came highly recommended: To-Ce-Chi. To our dismay we found the doors locked and the posted hours informed us we wouldn’t be having breakfast there… ever. Now I love me some breakfast tacos. I could eat them three times a day forever and I doubt I’d tire of them. Breakfast tacos, though, aren’t the only kind of food I can say this about. I am an omnivore. I’ll eat almost anything you put in front of me and likely go back for another helping if you don’t have it locked away. So other types of food are going to start finding their way onto Tacotopia occasionally. This first supplemental installment is about – what else – lunch tacos. Kevy the Hat and myself showed up at the To-Ce-Chi at lunch – and we weren’t disappointed. The name To-Ce-Chi is shorthand for Tomate, Cebolla, Chile – Tomato Onion and Peppers.
Before we even ordered we were served beans – and they were delicious. I had the #1 – Mexican Tacos (very imaginative) which had 3 soft corn beef taquitos, sauteed onions, lettuce, tomato, avocado and cheese. The Hat had the #10 – Tacos To-Ce-Chi: Corn tortillas with picadillo guesado, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado and cheese. These were pretty much the same plate but the #10 had the picadillo guisado instead of the shredded beef, and my tortillas were fried where the #10 had fresh tortillas.
Enough already with the specifics! How was it? Good. This food was much more like the mexican food I’d eaten in Mexico. Heavy with fresh vegetables, fresh tortillas and fresh cilantro one might be tempted to say their food is fresh. The salsa was a puree of green peppers with a hint of avocado and perhaps some poblano. The cheese was very much like the cheese in Mexico.
Looking around the place you’d think you were in a stall in a mercado, with every square inch of space filled with something to sell or something to pay tribute. Kevy noted a bleeding portrait of Jesus complemented by a corner dedicated to Zapata and Villa. All three of them died for someone’s sins.
This place, though good, has unpredictable/arbitrary hours. Hoping to get myself one of their sopes, I stopped by a little after 11 a.m. Friday morning. Closed. Perhaps I missed some sign stating their hours of operation, but I didn’t see anything telling me when they open, and I even questioned whether they had gone out of business by the looks of the papered up windows. I hope that’s not the case as they do serve some yummy Mexican-style appetizers. Thanks for the review!