El Taconazo Restaurant

Um,  the place is fugly; dunno how else to put it.  The food is a hit or miss; they're really good at some things & suck royally at others.  I used to love it there 'til they cheapened their items down further.  They used to offer a thinned-out sour cream with your salsa & chips but now you pay extra for it, their hot chocolate is really runny & you have to ask for extra everything if you order their caldo de rez (beef stew) because if you don't they just bring you a plate full of huge veggie chunks & broth; no real meat; hell, even with the meat they will stinge you and add bones & such!  If you just want a cheap, good taco & walk over to the bakery right next door for some to-go Mexican sweetbread, then awesome, otherwise, go someplace else!

if you want authenitc mexican food & you're in the area, don't pass up this dumpy little gem in the minimall on nw corner of 59/kedzie.
they have various dishes that include this great tomato-based sauce with sliced hot peppers which you can pick out to your tolerance to spicyness.
and those are:
-huevos rancheros: over easy eggs covered with this  sauce.
-chilles rellenos: cheese stuffed bell peppers
-bistek ranchero: thin steak with almost enough grisle to kill the dish. (substandard meat)
-bistek a la mexicana: same as above but cut up.(my choice bet.the 2)
also good:
huevos a la mexicana: scrambled eggs with onions, tomatoes, & ( a little spicy) serrano peppers. i think they get carried away with the veg's in this dish, so i just ask for " poquita verduda" (just a little vegs)
or just don't say anything & simlpy pick out what i don't want.
huevos con chorizo: scrambled eggs with this mildly spicy mexican sausage. again, what is an otherwise great dish, they overdo the chorizo. i just ask for the chorizo on the side & mix it in to my taste.
above caveats notwithstanding you can safely order any other dish without being dissapointed.
yes, they have freshly squeezed o.j.
you might want that food to go for 2 reasons:
1) bad ventilation means you'll smell like food the rest of the day.
2) as with a lot of mexican restaurants, the music is way TOO LOUD.
other than that, enjoy