I stopped back in for lunch at Monon Food Company with a friend the other day because it was super convenient. After my first visit, I planned a return trip, but this was actually my first time back. The first thing I noticed when I walked in was that they now do table service, which is something I mentioned in my first review—that I thought that table service would be nicer if you are sitting down to dinner. However, our service was so slow, by the time I left, I was rethinking that position.
My friend and I shared the Hawaiian fish tacos (because last time someone had recommended them) and the jerk chicken tacos (we had one of each). (The jerk are $6.95 for 2 and the Hawaiian are $7.49 for 2). Seriously, these things have only gotten larger since my first visit, and they were quite large then. Now, you physically cannot eat them like a taco. They are so overstuffed you pretty much have to eat them with a knife and fork.
I preferred the Hawaiian taco of the two—it was full of shredded tilapia at the bottom, and there was a fair amount of fish. It was topped with lots of shredded cabbage, Monon barbecue sauce, and mango salsa. I appreciated there was a little heat in the salsa, but the mango balanced it out. It also just seemed juicier of the two, because there was a lot of tender fish as well as the sauce.
The Jamaican jerk taco was topped with jerk seasoned chicken, lots of shredded Romaine lettuce and another salsa (it said papaya, but it had just a few pieces of papaya and mostly other things—a fair amount of cucumber if I am not mistaken). This was really spicy, which is the point of jerk chicken I guess, but the weird thing was when you got down to the meat (you can’t even see it in the picture), it seemed almost like it was mostly seasoning and not very much meat, so the spice really started overwhelming things. This one also seemed overall much drier. To me, it needed some other kind of sauce or something.
The ingredients are exceedingly fresh, and this is a good place to go for a lunch in which you don’t leave feeling bloated and gross. I would likely get the Hawaiian taco again, but would pass on the jerk flavor. The most annoying thing was the fact that it was impossible to get our server’s attention. I finally had to flag down another server to ask her to please get ours for us so we could pay and get out of there. Luckily I was enjoying catching up with a friend who I don’t get to see very often, or I would have been annoyed. So maybe I was wrong the first time, and maybe for lunch, since people are generally in a bigger hurry, they should go back to counter service. Or maybe we were just unlucky. Who knows?
Monon Food Company
6420 Cornell Ave.
Indy 46220
317/722-0176
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