Fantasy Tacos

Review Highlights

Keith Lee and his family are back in New Orleans, Louisiana, pulling up to Fantasy Tacos after receiving a DM about the place. The restaurant is struggling — only six customers in the middle of a Thursday afternoon — and while the customer service is good, the posted website doesn't work and the menu defies easy categorization: birria pizza, jerk chicken tacos, elote, nachos. With prices he considers fair for the area and a kitchen that's clearly putting in the work, Keith is here to see whether the food can overcome the marketing.

• ·Birria Pizza (Pizzadilla) — a layered quesadilla with steak on one level, birria meat on another, and cheese between both, served with two consommés, two green sauces, and two limes. 5 for four huge pieces. "Oh my god, it's like a lasagna." Tender meat, peppers, layers of seasoning. Score: 9.4 out of 10 with the green salsa, which hits the perfect amount of spice
• ·Jerk Chicken Tacos — stuffed with pineapple salsa, house-made sauce, tomato, cilantro, onions, and cheese, so full they're falling apart. The chicken is marinated and seasoned to the bone — deeply flavorful. The catch: nothing about it is jerk (no spice, no rub, no earthiness). As jerk chicken: 2 out of 10. As a chicken taco: 9.2 out of 10. "Absolutely fantastic"
• ·Steak Tacos — same toppings as the jerk chicken, but the steak runs saltier and doesn't deliver as much flavor. Score: 5 out of 10
• ·Elote (Mexican Street Corn) — Keith is blunt: "That's not elote at all. That is buttered corn with some seasonings and some cheese." As elote: 3 out of 10. As simply buttered corn: 6 out of 10. "It's good though"
• ·Happy Hour Nachos — loaded with peppers, meat, cilantro, and heavy on the cheese. Keith compares it to Rotel dip: "This some hood business." Not for him personally, but he acknowledges there's a target audience that would go crazy over it. Score: 5 out of 10

Keith's overall take: the marketing is a mess — "jerk" chicken that isn't jerk, "elote" that's buttered corn, a broken website — but the food tells a different story. "Just the chicken tacos and the pizza alone, this might be one of them. Around the corner." That's the endorsement he says he hasn't used in a long time. He leaves confident the restaurant will reach its target audience: "I have no doubt that they will." A classic Keith Lee scenario — a struggling spot with real cooking talent that just needs the right people to walk through the door.

About

Fantasy Tacos is a Black-owned, Mexican-Caribbean fusion restaurant in Gretna, Louisiana, just across the river from New Orleans. What started as a food truck has grown into a brick-and-mortar spot known for its genre-bending menu — birria pizzadillas, jerk chicken tacos, elote, and loaded nachos. The restaurant gained a major boost after Keith Lee's viral TikTok review in June 2024, which drew national attention to the small shop and its creative, boldly seasoned cooking.