MTR pitch

“Find yourself craving lip-smacking cocktails and flavour-full tacos? You HAVE to experience 11 Westside. Start the meal right by ordering G.S.C (Guacamole, Salsa and Chips) – the guac is made in front of you and to your taste. There are a wide range of savoury dishes but the stars of the show are the tacos. Their flavour combinations zing in your mouth: garlic butter shrimp and mango; roasted pork and pineapple; battered sole and smoke chilli. Salivate mucho!”

Rating 5/5

Price point c. 50 HKD per taco

Break it down now

Almost everyone in Hong Kong has now heard of 11 Westside, a chic Mexican restaurant which serves up big flavours and cracking cocktails. We decided to drop by and see the hype for ourselves. 11 Westside did NOT disappoint.

We highly recommend booking a table for peak meal times but we were seated with no qualms for a late lunch. Once seated, start the meal right by ordering G.S.C (Guacamole, Salsa and Chips) – the guac is made in front of you and to your taste. More lime? No hay problema. A touch of chilli? No hay problema. It’s fresh, it’s creamy, it’s the perfect accompaniment to the tacos that will soon arrive at your table.

11 Westside has 8 different tacos to choose from. (FYI, there is only 1 choice for vegetarians but plenty of options for pescatarians.) We tried 7 out of 8 and every bite sent flavour-waves zinging through our mouths. Here are some of our favourites:

• Al Pastor. Aciote and pineapple roasted pork, guacamole, salsa molcajete, cilantro and fresh pineapple. This taco strikes the perfect balance of fresh ingredients, naughty/sticky pork meat and hot spice. Could eat a whole plate of just these tbh. OUTSTANDING.
• Mango shrimp. Garlic butter shrimp, chipotle aioli, pico de gallo, mango and avocado. You need fat juicy shrimp smothered in chipotle aioli in your life. Trust. This taco is creamy and juicy at the very same time. We ordered this twice people. We needed more.
• Baja fish. Beer batter sole, smoke chilli mayo, shredded cabbage and pico de gallo. The sole in this taco is so soft it melts in your mouth, yet with plenty of bite from the crispy beer batter and shredded cabbage. It’s a perfect marriage of texture and flavour. Those fish tacos are the t*ts.
• Lover’s Beach Taco. Tempura oyster, burnt jalapeño beurre blanc, santa barbara uni. Wow, wow, wow. Fine dining flavours in a Mexican taco!? This two-set of tacos is an absolutely triumph. We’ve never eaten tempura oyster before but it was luxurious.

Washing down these tacos with 11 Westside’s exceptional selection of cocktails went down soo well. The drinks menu comes in the form of a hip hop album (which we loved) and strong Mexican influence can be seen throughout. Salt-rimmed tequila cocktails with a twist are exactly what you need to accompany this very special meal. We would come back just for the drinks but we’d get serious taco-envy….

Asian Pan likes…

• Al Pastor
• Mango Shrimp
• Baja Fish