Papi's Rapido - Lexington

Everyone will be happy, from vegans to omnipresents. The menu is designed with vegans in mind. The hibiscus tacos are my favorite.

We stopped here with a carnivorous cousin who turned around the Burritos. This place is super casual w/ a drive-thru or walk-up window only. Very simple menu. There are 9 meat options 5 vegetarian or vegan options: (1) pastor cauliflower, (2) veggie chorizo w/ potatoes, (3) hibiscus-Jamaica, (4) avocado, or (5) black beans. To order, choose a “meat option” and ask them to make it as roads tacos, a Burrito (2 sizes available), bowl, or Quesadilla. They also call toppings/add-ins. I have two vegan “meat” as a bowl with many veggie toppings. My husband had one of the smaller of the two Burrito sizes with two different vegan “meat”. Both were great. The only improvement I could suggest would add a vegan cheese option. It was easy, fast, delicious. On a beautiful day we enjoyed our lunch at the available picnic table, and our carnivorous relatives could eat happy what he wanted.

When I go to Papi's Rapido, (I highly recommend any other variant of this restaurant because the Rapido version seems to be the only one that is a working knowledge about what is vegan on their menu) I get five streets tacos: avocado, and black bean. I also love their chips and salsa, as well as their hot sauces. It is hard to understand how their menu is displayed, what actually vegan vs vegetarian, I hope there is an update to this in the future. I would visit more often if they had other options for vegans.

I have been to Papi's restaurant and have always had great food there, so I had high hopes this would be a good experience but this is my first and last visit to Papi's Rapido. The Street Corn was a major disappointment basically canned corn topped with cotija cheese and seasoning and after the topping, you just have kernel corn and juice. Had it been roasted corn, it would've helped. Had there not been all of the juice, that would have helped but overall it was horribly disappointing. I tried the pastor cauliflower as a street taco and if not for the onion and green sauce, there would have been no flavor. The service was terrific and the time to get my order was great but the food was just not good and I'm so glad that I didn't order anything more.

Don't waste your money, if you want a street taco go to a street taco vendor. This is not authentic at all.