Cork is already home to one fine Mexican restaurant, but we recently noticed the arrival of a new dinery, namely Poco Loco, and being flush with money after payday, we were in the mood for some good food.
The menu is this restaurant is short, with the same dishes offered in spicy beef, chicken or veggie formats. For starters, we went for a plate of nachos grandes with beef between the two of us. When this arrived, it was on a huge platter with large dollops of guacomole, soured cream and slightly spicy minced beef. The nachos were also covered in melted cheese and came with a side serving of what was definitely fresh made salsa which had a real kick to it. Other starters available included soup, smaller nachos dishes, quesadillas and other traditional mexican fare.

The main courses offered lots of choice, so I opted for a combination platter of two main courses for €12.50 (instead of €10.95 each). I chose chicken stuffed peppers and spicy beef quesada. The chicken in the stuffed peppers was lovely, just having been grilled and placed in the pepper and then covered in melted cheese. The spicy beef on the quesada had more bite to it than the beef on the nachos and made for warm eating. This was accompanied by the usual mexican rice and refried beans.

The other main course chosen was a mixed beef and chicken fajita. The grilled meat came on a sizzling plate with some grilled veg, a plate of wraps and soured cream, guacamole, jalapeno peppers, and some mexican rice. There was no sauce in the meat, which I thought was a good thing as the grilled taste of the meat shone through. The only complaint I would have about this dish is that more meat would have been nice but at €12.50 I can't really complain.

To accompany this we selected a bottle of house red (valpollicello) from a short wine list for €12.50. It was a lovely wine for the money, very light and good for washing down the chilli flavoured food we enjoyed.

In total the meal cost somewhere around ?45. Really good value for what was very tasty food in a pleasant atmosphere.