The Commercial Appeal is an E.W. Scripps Company newspaper.
Reviewers visit the restaurant unannounced, order, eat and pay the bill without being identified.
Our reports are not related to whether the restaurant advertises in The Commercial Appeal. When a colleague and I were seated at Taqueria Guadalajara, a short, motherly woman approached the table and asked if it was our first visit to the modest restaurant. The fare here is simple and hearty and filled with flavor, the sort of food you pack in before going out to harvest agave plants or put a roof on a house. This is, in other words, food on the plate, but it's no less delicious for being unadorned. Guadalajara provides no hands-on menu.