El Gallito is located in Seattle’s Central District. Sadly, the sweet club down the block, Club Chocolate City, closed down about a year or two ago. Normally you could go for some Mexican, dance to some funky ghetto beats, and maybe get your face blown off. RIP Club Chocolate City. The area is currently safer these days due to gentrification but that’s a whole different plague.

Perhaps one of the greatest things about El Gallito is the salsa. This is the salsa dreams are made of. And it comes in a giant tub so you can go fairly nuts with it. Think really spicy with chunks of onion, green onion and cilantro. Amazing.

Today I ordered a couple of steak tacos ($3.00 each a la carte) and one chile relleno ($4.00 a la carte). El Gallito makes their own homemade taco shells (both hard and soft shell) that pretty much give Diane’s or Old El Paso the finger. Tacos come with really fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cheese combined with the meat (or just beans) of your choice. Check this shit out:

The relleno didn’t have me at hello until I shed about a half centimeter of breading from the perimeter. Only then was I able to enjoy a fresh anaheim pepper stuffed with Monterrey Jack cheese and a slightly mole red sauce.

An abundant pile of sopaipillas ended the night. However, they did not compare to Casa Bonita’s (the world’s most exciting restaurant in Denver) sopaipillas where they are served piping hot but now that I think about it, the food at Casa Bonita is so horrifying that maybe the cliff divers and the sopaipillas seem amazing in comparison. It’s hard to say.

Considering our tab at El Gallito’s was $31.18 and $18.75 was margaritas and $2.68 was tax, this is a great deal for far above average (Seattle) Mexican food and the best salsa ever.

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