who's your mama?

taco mama. hot springs has better mexican food than little rock. enter taco mama, brought to you by the owner of café 1217, housed in the building next door. armed with a late lunch appetite and a new camera, LRB ordered an appetizer of sweet & hot potato crusted jalapeños, translation: a roasted jalapeño gutted and stuffed with cream cheese cocooned in shoe string potatoes, deep fried & served with sweet pepper jelly. pretty interesting and pretty good. the daily special was my lunch order, chicken & sweet potato with guajillo chile & cojita cheese. let me break it down, this was white meat chicken and sweet potato in a soft corn tortilla, deep fried until crunchy in the shape of a hard shell taco, topped with a purple cabbage coleslaw of sorts, sprinkled with cojita cheese. choice of black beans, refried beans or pinto beans and green rice accompany lunch entrées. muy bueno. don’t forget to visit the salsa bar. there you will find pico de gallo (spanish for rooster's beak, ok.), tomatillo, fire roasted tomato and roasted habanero. another free condiment is whole roasted jalapeño peppers. the daily specials change by the week and are listed on a separate menu printed on colorful paper. the menu is above the cash register or you can pick up a slick to-go menu. this is a sit down and a waitress will come take your order place, we didn’t know this and ordered at the counter. the food is brought out by waitstaff. when you go, you'll know to just grab a table.

the restaurant has been renovated with thought to create a cute & fun lunch, brunch or dinner experience. & there’s a patio out back. LRB will be road trippin’ it for mexican from now on...better time it right, as mama closes the kitchen at 8:30pm. ah, the charm of a small town. ROADTRIP.

Taco Mama
M-Sat, 10:30a - 8:30pm
1209 Malvern Avenue
Hot Springs

501-624-MAMA