Bartaco - Westport Village

By farrr my favorite date night restaurant! Love to sit out and look at the water. Chips with Gordita sauce and Duck Birria Tacos are a MUST!

I’ve been here a couple times just recently within the last 8 weeks. So this review is pretty much up to date.The atmosphere of that place is great. Very casual. Great vibes. Food is good too. Reasonably priced.Only thing is the service. They forget things, drinks come late. They don’t write orders down which would be good if you order a bunch of tacos. I mean it’s casual after all, so you don’t expect a lot but service could be def better.

They messed up our order a ton of times and forgot our reservation. I get that they were busy, but I would've liked it more if it was a smoother experience

The food is okay. The big draw to this place is that you can order through your phone and food and drinks come out as they are made. You can pay and leave at your convenience as we have done many times in the west Hartford location. Unfortunately, the system didn't work for our table and the servers didn't understand how to make it work. It resulted in us ordering through the paper menu. The servers were not interested in our table since all of the tips are shared. The drinks took FOREVER to come out. The food came out first. Then had to wait for a while to order again. Certain servers could take food orders but others said that they would get a server for us. Overall, a God Aweful experience.

Bar taco is reasonably priced – and that is the extent to which I can endorse this place, as neither quality nor service merit a return visit. First the food, which is like taco bell in miniature. Imagine a taco but smaller – much smaller – like a taco on the molecular level. You will need many, many tacos to leave this place satisfied, and if they were high quality the pigmy tacos would be far less disappointing. Unfortunately, quality is also lacking. I say this after sampling countless mini-tacos, including the “surprise taco” (not surprisingly, this taco also failed).Drinks were tasty but took eons to arrive, which brings me to the service. All of our servers were cheerful and pleasant, but the vast number of them created difficultly. Apparently, servers are not assigned specific tables. You will likely encounter 5 to 10 different servers throughout your mini meal because they are all serving the entire restaurant, meaning none of them are particularly invested in your dinner. Because everyone owns your table, nobody really owns your table. Food also comes out when it is ready, which works for family style restaurants but sadly breaks down in the mini taco world. I went with a group of 7, and some of us got our fill of mini tacos before others had gotten anything.