{"id":7965,"date":"2022-11-27T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2022-11-27T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:58:02","slug":"zavalas-market-taqueria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=7965","title":{"rendered":"Zavala&#8217;s Market &#038; Taqueria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115302-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"Zavala's Market &amp; Taqueria\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115302-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115302-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115302-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115302-1536x1271.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115302.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>More and more grocery stores with a small counter-service restaurant inside are popping up in Madison. One of the latest is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=1947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zavala&#8217;s Market &amp; Taqueria<\/a>, located near Woodman&#8217;s on the west side.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this case, the grocery store section is very small, limited to just a few shelves, which leaves room for more tables for dining in. All orders are placed at the checkout counter.<\/p>\n<p>The menu appears bigger than it really is, as each of the nine items has a lengthy description. For example, the taco salad ($10.99) takes up one-third of the sign menu.<\/p>\n<p>Tacos come with your diced onion, cilantro, lettuce, cheese, sour cream (I held everything but the onion and cilantro) and your choice of meat for $3 ($3.50 for tripe or tongue).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pulled pork was tender and tasty, though a tad bit salty.<\/li>\n<li>The asada was cut into very small pieces and as a result, was tough.<\/li>\n<li>The tripe carried a strong grassy taste but was still enjoyable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115211-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"Zavala's\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115211-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115211-1024x896.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115211-768x672.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115211-1536x1344.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221012_115211.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The gordita ($4.50) was crispy and fresh. It&#8217;s stuffed with refried beans and queso fresco and your choice of meat. I&#8217;m glad I chose the lengua, as it was tender and plentiful.<\/p>\n<p>I had my eyes set on the empanadas ($11.99 for three), which are surprisingly topped with queso fresco, sour cream, lettuce and salsa, as well as the quesadilla ($10.99), which comes with refried beans and Mexican rice. Unfortunately, a missing ingredient (which was never named by the restaurant) led me to wait for more than an hour for my order before it was canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Huaraches ($12.99), sopes ($4.50) and other forms of tacos comprise the rest of the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Zavala&#8217;s Market &amp; Taqueria is open every day for lunch and dinner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more grocery stores with a small counter-service restaurant inside are popping up in Madison. One of the latest is Zavala&#8217;s Market &amp; Taqueria, located near Woodman&#8217;s on the west side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,25],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurant-reviews","tag-far-west","tag-mexican"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7972,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/7972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}