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| | Oakland: Latin touch may bring luck to location |
 | | This is an odd quirk of this restaurant, which otherwise radiates generosity: They skimp on the sidekicks - - the queso fresco, the pesto for the empanadas, mojo sauce that comes with fried yucca ($7), or chimichurri sauce with pinchos ($9), skewers snaked with thin slices of well-seasoned tender beef. |
 | | Most of La Taza's food is lightly, almost timidly, seasoned, which detracts from the good ingredients in dishes like arroz con pollo ($12), a mound of chicken-studded rice that cries out for a zippy sauce. |
 | | For dessert, La Taza does a simple flan ($6) and tres leches cake ($6), a sweet and moist cake (which, again, could have used more than a few dots of sweet-tart fruit sauce). |
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