El Taco Loco con Taiyo

I've wanted to eat at

ever since I spotted this

on the side of their 3274 24th St, the Fran location. I felt bad about the metal bar in my picture of their sign until I realized that a place advertising their "acos" probably doesn't care too much about the sign. As for the second, why's the taco the "loco" one? Who's the one with the crazy grin brandishing a piece? Then again, maybe the pepper's a known tough guy and the taco was insane to confront him unarmed. Anyway, a bar (the drinky kind) obscures the rest of the picture. I'd like to get on the roof to get a closer look. I have a feeling that this was originally a picture of a pepper and a taco and the anthropomorphization, authorized or not, was added later.

Inside, there's a surprising amount of room. The walls all feature something in the rough neighborhood of "art." They're not shy about pumping oom-pah-pah mexican music over the sound system. Baja Fresh this ain't.

The chips were stale. The salsa, featuring avocados but too thin to be called guac, pretty good. There was also a salsa fresca, but too similar to all the others to count. My burrito

was pretty good. The meat was from a fatty cut, in the good sense, and was pretty juicy (one half dripped on my hand). But we have to think about the location of this place : a stone's through from El Farolito and Taqueria San Jose. "Pretty good" doesn't count for much. Taiyo's opinion was even less generous, he

described his veggie burrito as "below average," due to insufficient rice and beans. I'd recommend going once, even if just to see the baffling back wall :

Before you go to babelfish, ask yourself : are there any words or phrases that it could return that would explain this?