Takorea

Had yet another great Atlanta lunch today.  What a luxury to live in a place where eating out should never be boring!  Today's treats were found at Takorea, which if you self interpret, you would figure out would be a taqueria with a Korean slant.  The menu is more interesting than the choices Karen and I made today, but our goal was to get a sampling of the restaurant without taking a lot home.



Lunch consisted of two tacos, or ask they call them, takos.  We split the shrimp fried with hoisin tartar sauce and the salt and pepper calamari with Thai sweet chili, both served in flour tortillas.  We also split an appetizer of sticky chicky, which was chicken in an apricot glaze, and an order of the sesame fries with chipotle ketchup.  Waitstaff was friendly, and atmosphere was relaxing and urban cool.  And, to top it off, we surprised ourselves to find that we had a Scoutmob for it, total win for us.  We will be back without the benefit of the Scoutmobs, to try the bibim-bop, a dish featured by Alton Brown on the Food Channel: rice, meat, fried egg, mushshrooms, spinach, mung beans, zucchini, topped with spicy Korean pepper sauce.  We almost got it, but sounded a bit much for lunch. 

Takorea
818 Juniper Street, Atlanta GA,
mytakorea.com