Mezcalito Chelsea review: Eat in sombreros with tequila

It was great.

The music at Mezcalito in Chelsea was on point, the drinks and the food were better, and the interior is so cool.

My boyfriend and I went for a date night on a Friday night, and didn’t regret our choice for some weekend fun at a restaurant with a good atmosphere.

The exterior is beautifully decorated with flowers, and it rightly draws you in away from “real life” as its sign says, and into Mexico.

With Mexican décor, sombreros everywhere, Tequila a-plenty and music which makes you feel like you’re on a beach, you can’t really go wrong.

Each table gets given some corn chips and dips in true Mexican style to much on while browsing the menu of starters, tostadas, quesadillas, tacos, mains, burritos, sushi and more.

Our friendly waiter recommended we get four or five dishes to share between the two of us, so we followed his advice and went for five.

We chose the seabass ceviche, tuna tostados, beer battered sea bass tacos, my boyfriend had a pork belly burrito, and I had some tuna sushi deep fried in a batter.

I would say my favourites were the seabass ceviche and tuna tostados which had really fresh, melt-in-the-mouth raw fish accompanied by other complementing Mexican flavours.

The portions were really generous and I probably could have stopped after this – but I didn’t!

My next favourite was the battered seabass, which as a lover of anything battered, was absolutely scrumptious. Again, accompanied with chives, pickled carrots, cabbage and chipotle mayo.

My boyfriend enjoyed the burrito which was enough to feed him without anything else, and the sushi was a brilliant Mexican take on the typical Japanese dish that I eat commonly.

We had cocktails with our meal, again recommended by our waiter, and they were tequila based and made you feel like you were on holiday while drinking them.

Although we were absolutely stuffed, the vibe of the restaurant was too cool to leave and the sound of the churros with chocolate was far too irresistible.

They were as divine as they sounded and we left the restaurant with full stomachs, full hearts and feeling like we’d holidayed in Mexico.