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Better than a scrumptious taco from my favorite Austin Korean taco truck, Chi’Lantro BBQ, is news about said truck. Yesterday, Chi’Lantro BBQ’s Iris Han dropped me a quick note. In it, she wrote that a Houston Chi’Lantro truck will be serving kimchee fries, burritos and its signature tacos mid-February 2012. Continue reading
Filed under Austin, food truck, News
What’s the holiday season without tacos? I don’t want to know is what. Carolyn Knight, who recently wrote a guest post for the Taco Maven blog, feels the same way. She takes a turn on the Taco Trail. Please welcome Carolyn and try your culinary skills with the appetite-whetting, vegetarian-friendly recipe below. It sure beats the hell out of dried-up bird. Take it away.
It’s been proven that the taco is food perfection. The delicious tortillas make them portable, and the combinations of ingredients you can put inside are endless. OK, so no one has actually shown tacos to be perfect, but they’re the food closest to it from what we can see. With the holidays coming up it might seem like time for a taco break, but they still make for easy meals no matter the time of year.
El Camote
If our Spanish is right (and there’s a good chance it isn’t) we’re talking about sweet potatoes. What says holidays better than this tasty, starchy treat? In most families, you’ll get this holiday dish all sugared up and covered with marshmallows. You can stick that gooey mess into a corn tortilla shell if you want, but we’d rather mix it up a little bit. Our version has a kick and includes a nice corn salsa, to boot. Continue reading
Filed under Guest post, Recipes
My wife was not surprised that I found a taquería, a food stand, really, within fifteen minutes of arriving at the Dallas-Fort Worth outlet of the flea-market theme park chain Traders Village. “Three tacos with rice and beans for six bucks,” I enthusiastically related after returning from my scouting mission. (There might have been some arm-waving and pogo-ing performed by someone not my three-year-old son nor my patient, age-less wife.) “Huaraches. Barbacoa de borrego, pambazos, too!” Spanish exclamations followed, and when our family friends, the Estradas, joined us, we dug in. Continue reading
Filed under Grand Prairie
In response to my not-so-favorable review of Velvet Taco, co-owner Mark Brezinski invited me to tour the restaurant and spend some time chatting with he and chef John Franke. I accepted Brezinski’s offer and last week visited Velvet Taco before the lunch rush.
Highlight of the tours included stuffing of my maw with the new Weekly Taco Feature (WTF) special, The Blue Pig (slow-roasted pork, avocado crema, fire-roasted salsa, custom pico, Danish blue crumbles and pickled Fresno chilies). The liberal application of blue cheese meant I picked out chucks of it, but the pork butt was moist. Continue reading
Filed under Knox-Henderson, Meet and Eat
The combined power of tacky cartoons and cracked white paint can be resisted for only so long. Galindo’s packs that powerful one-two punch and it successfully lured me in one gloomy afternoon.
Filed under Lakewood
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| Good 2 Go Taco, yarn bombed. Via Facebook |
Good 2 Go Taco was planning a taco truck, I wrote for City of Ate in 2010. Shortly thereafter, owners Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare shuttered the specialty taqueria counter inside the Green Spot market and gas station. Plans for the mobile venture were put on hold.
Months went by before the taqueras’ fare, like the popular Hotlanta and the joyful heart attack from Dixie, the SoCo, would be served commercially, but when they were—Ave, Maria!—Johnson and O’Hare gave us, their dedicated fans, reason to celebrate. We came in droves to the Peavy Road storefront furbished with reclaimed elements and throwback cafeteria tile.
It was good. It was glorious. Continue reading
Filed under East Dallas, food truck, Lake Highlands
A new torta has been added to Taco Ocho’s menu. And it’s inspired by the tripleta, a sandwich from the land of my birth, Puerto Rico!
Opened since May, the Richardson specialty taquería and tortería has brought Mexican and Latin American-inspired cuisine to a part of DFW noted more for its Asian nibbles than much else. However, it hasn’t been easy. “People are reluctant to try new things,” said Taco Ocho owner Mani Bhushan. The Miramar torta, for example, wasn’t selling. So, we began looking at alternatives.” Continue reading
Filed under Richardson
I had no intention of eating tacos when my family and I took in the State of Fair of Texas this year. Most certainly not the walking taco golden calf. Last year’s experience put me off, and this time around I was looking for a day where my three-year-old son could have his way with Midway rides and livestock attractions. Damn the fried food.
After all, last year didn’t go all that well (read: warm and crunchy fried beer).
Then, within spitting distance of the Esplanade, Mrs. R spoke, “Look, honey, pastor.” There was much hemming and hawing while the missus ordered fried brownie (not that great). Continue reading
Filed under State Fair of Texas
News that Fuel City, home of tacos with their own religious order, has added a covered patio (pictured) that can accommodate 70 customers appeared in my inbox this morning and all over Dallas food websites (Pegasus, SideDish, Eater). According to the press release, the tacos are made from recipes originating in Durango, Mexico, and passed down three generations.
My question is: Did the source recipes suck? The current iterations are terrible. I’ve called them the “Catcher in the Rye of tacos: over-hyped and underwhelming.” They remind me of the time when, as an infant, my son vomited all over my face and I inadvertently swallowed some.
The patio won’t make the tacos taste any better.
Fuel City 801 South Riverfront Blvd. 214-426-0011Filed under News
From the street, Cholula Restaurant is the type of establishment where lonely men pay bailarinas (dancing waitresses) for some quality time. The blacked-out windows are patched with cheap vinyl, and it doesn’t help that the joint sits along a crumbling strip where a few doors down a business hocks Chinese food from a casket-sized stall.
Cholula is the kind of place my neighbors back in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, told me to avoid on Saturday nights. “Take the long way to Mass,” it was explained. “You don’t want to trip on a bullet casing, or track blood into St. Michael’s.” It was a good Catholic neighborhood, and we were good Catholics.
Filed under Lake Highlands
The Taco Trail 