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Old Apr 27, 2005 | 2:26 pm
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Taqueria Aguascalientes has a few locations scattered around the West side. I've visited the Cicero location (Cicero Ave. just north of Cermak, just north of the CTA tracks) twice now for carry-out. Their speciality is gorditas - a tortilla thicker than a taco/burrito tortilla, stuff with all sorts of goodness.

I've tried the following so far, all for takeout:
- Queso con Rajas (cheese & peppers): Excellent, very spicy, with a generous portion of strips of poblano pepper mixed in with a melted whie cheese.
- Lomo de Puerco (pork): Very good. One of the three kinds of pork gorditas they carry. The pork itself was just ok, but the sauce was excellent.
- Guisado de Res (beef): Good value, but don't try to eat it in your car. There had to be 10 oz. of shredded beef roast in this thing. But it was dry - no sauce at all. I ended up taking it home and drenching it with the green sauce.

Most types of gorditas are $2.50, a few are $3.50. Orders come with pickled veggies (the typical carrots and jalepenos, but also califlower) and both a red and a green sauce.

Dining in you get waited on at your table. Carry-outs walk to the back register and can wait at four of the back tables. The atmosphere is a bit industrial/sparse (for those of you that have been to Manny's, it's like the room away from the serving line). Full liquor license, a dedicated refrigerator for chilling beer steins for bottled beer. Hours are 8am-midnight, 8am-3am on Fri/Sat.
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