Guaca

I was disgusted by the service and the quality of the food. Everything that I ordered was overcooked or simply burnt. Tasteless. It’s not authentic Mexican food (I’ve been to Mexico and live in the US, I know Mexican!)
Don’t bother in coming here, there are plenty of good restaurants in the area.

I went here before a Chelsea game. Although this place specialises in Mexican food, it doesn’t do it to an above average standard. The British equivalent would be a local breakfast café serving a standup full English fry up, or a diner in America serving typical burger and chips.
Portions are big though, so if that’s your thing, its not a bad place to go for lunch in the area.

They have switched to plain corn chips!
5 for you, Guaca :)

I’ll preface this review by stating that I am, in fact, an American. Lived in Dallas for a few years, enjoyed many, many, many Tex Mex meals in my lifetime, am trying to find a decent Tex-​Mex joint in the UK. You get the point.
Guaca is not it. It tries but fails just as every other Tex-​Mex place in London. For example, guacamole should not be pulverized into a smooth spread like sour cream. It also should not have red peppers. Guacamole is simple: smash up avocados, add salt, chopped red onion, lime juice, and cilantro. That’s it. Don’t blend it like baby food, skip the salt, forgo the lime juice and add giant chunks of red pepper.
We started off with the nachos, which on the menu, state are covered in queso. We took queso to mean the gooey cheese sauce one dips chips into. It is not — it’s the literal Spanish to English translation: cheese. The plate consisted of a giant mound of chips, some shredded cheese, a dollop of pureed avocado, a dollop of sour cream, two slices of pickled jalapenos (wrong, wrong, wrong) and a tablespoon of pico de gallo. In short, there weren’t enough toppings.
We both ordered the enchiladas which aren’t actually enchiladas. There was no sauce poured over the top and they essentially were two small flour tortillas filled with our choice of filling topped with shredded cheese. Though this dish wasn’t technically enchiladas, they were tasty.
With the dish came pinto beans which were not pinto beans (here’s where the pulverizing is actually needed, guys!). They were some sort of brown bean in a tomato sauce. There is no tomato sauce in pinto beans in Tex-​Mex food. Wrong again.
The dish also came with rice which was terrible. It tasted and looked like Veetee oriental vegetable rice.
The women’s toilet needs attention. The toilet seat and toilet seat lid are no longer attached yet someone went through the trouble to balance both pieces on the toilet. It’s broken, chuck it in the bin and purchase a new one. Additionally, the hand dryer is broken though there wasn’t a sign nor any towel alternative so I had no choice but to return to the dining room with dripping wet hands.
Last, they are still putting table salt on the rim of their margaritas as stated in a previous review. And they put crushed ice in their mojitos. I don’t get why bartenders in the UK think that crushed ice belongs in mojitos. It doesn’t. It melts and waters down the drink, not to mention that the giant mound of crushed ice on top of the drink falls off and creates a mess on the table.
Plastic table cloths, disastrous toilet, pureed «guacamole,» and no queso means Guaca is a no go for us.

Great service, but the most awful ‘Mexican’ food I’ve had in the UK. Fish fingers and baked beans do not make a £14 fish taco.
Also, I’m not sure if this was intentional, but the guacamole was brown and tasted mainly of gin (?!)

So I’m American, worked in a tex-​mex place, lived in Mexico for a while etc. so I was interested to see this place and nothing would please me more than to have a good Tex-​Mex restaurant in the neighbourhood. First off, let me say I think they’ve done a great job of creating the kind of fun, lively atmosphere of a Tex-​Mex place without being too kitsch. The menu hits all the classic dishes youd expect (fajita, burrito, enchilada, chimichanga). And the drinks are potent and delicious. So we’ll be back. But in the spirit of constructive criticism, Dear owners, please stop using table salt to salt the rims of your margaritas. Go buy some kosher salt — or even some coarse sea salt if you’re really stuck — and do it right. Regular table salt is iodised and tastes terrible and far too salty and is ruining your otherwise excellent margarita.