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by | September 7, 2012 · 2:13 pm

Taco Ticker: A Taquero Torrent, Pink Puligists & Estrellas

Friday on the trail means Taco Ticker, a selection of light, taco-related reading from around the web. This week’s pickings include litigation over the color pink and a bite that will have you declaring, “I gar-on-tee!” However, if you’re going to click on any item, make it the first link. The piece covers the booming D.C. taco scene with chef profiles, “Taconomics” and a slideshow filled with pretty pictures of meat.

Tacopocalypse hits the District — Washington Post Going Out Gurus Blog

Three-Michelin-Star Chef Slings Tacos for Tacolicious — Tacolicious

Local food truck in battle over name ‘The Pink Taco’ — KTRK ABC13

5 Ways to Try Alligator — SFoodie

Taco Bell “Taco A Day For A Year” Contest — CBS Philly

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by | August 31, 2012 · 8:00 am

Taco Ticker: The Bell, The Pinche & The Loco

Friday means Taco Ticker, a selection of light, taco-related reading from around the web. This week’s pickings are dominated by the big boy of crunchy taco chains. Enjoy the holiday.

Kevin Morrison of Pinche Taqueria, Hailed One of American’s Best New Restaurants — Eater Denver

Taco Bell tests new Doritos Locos Tacos flavor — Nation’s Restaurant News

Former Taco Bell to Become Taqueria — Castro Valley Patch

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Cops Drop Off Drunk Man at Taco Bell; Man Takes Off and Gets Killed by Traffic! — Stick a Fork In It

Which Chain Makes the Best Carnitas Taco? — Serious Eats: Los Angeles Tacos

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by | August 30, 2012 · 1:23 pm

Is Cowboy Chow’s Transformation Into a Taco Concept Too Late?

Photo: Tacos & Avocados/Facebook

By now you’ve probably read that Jason Boso of Twisted Root fame is closing the last of his Cowboy Chow restaurants. Whereas the Dallas location closed in May 2011 and was replaced by Buzzbrews, the second Cowboy Chow, this one in Roanoke, will become Tacos & Avocados, Bosso’s new fast-casual specialty taquería concept.

Menu selections listed in the press release, including a rib-eye steak taco with bacon-onion marmalade, blue cheese crumbles and potato straws as well as a mango-chile pepper paleta and daily fish taco specials, seem appetizing enough, but what separates Boso’s steak taco from any other gussied-up beef option? Continue reading →

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by | August 23, 2012 · 3:57 pm

The Great Taco Run Goes the Tortilla Course

A different sort of taco trail is taking to Dallas on Sunday, Sept. 30. The Great Taco Run will give the city another race with another hook, yes, but can you think of anything more rewarding after giving it your all along the streets of the Big D than tacos? I can’t.

Presented by area sports store Luke’s Locker and benefiting the Trinity Strand and Katy Trail, the race will be separated into 5K, 10K and 10-mile lengths, all finishing at the Runners Village at Museum Way and Victory Avenue, near the American Airlines Center, where several taco vendors will be serving up their signature fare beginning at 8:30 a.m. Participants will be able to vote for their favorite taco vendor while a panel of judges will choose theirs. The winners will be announced on National Taco Day, Thursday, Oct. 4. Continue reading →

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by | August 4, 2012 · 3:34 pm

El Padrino Ordered to Vacate, Hopes to Remain in Bishop Arts

If you’ve developed a taste for the tacos at El Padrino Mexican Grill’s satellite stand, you should know they’ve fallen victim to development. In my Friday, Aug. 3, Dallas Voice profile of restaurant designer and Taco Republic owner Ron Guest, I reported that spot in the Bishop Arts District had received a three-month order to vacate the premises. It’s due to become part of Oak Cliff Mercantile, a  dual concept from Sarah Lombardi, daughter of restaurateur Alberto Lombardi. The new tenant will use the eponymous building as its nucleus. The kiosk will anchor a beer garden.

“No one saw this coming,” says Juan Contreras, managing partner of El Padrino’s stand and the 22-year-old full-service original on Jefferson Boulevard—which is not closing. However, Contreras adds, it makes sense. The lease was altered to a month-to-month agreement 10 years ago. Now, it’s a matter of finding another Bishop Arts space. Continue reading →

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by | July 15, 2012 · 3:15 pm

Taco Party, Dallas’ Newest Food Truck

Last weekend’s Taste of Dallas is more than a food expo. It’s a testing ground for nascent culinary ventures, like Taco Party, the city’s newest food truck. Taco Party is so new, the rig doesn’t yet have a branded wrap. Instead, posters covered parts of the truck, formerly of Dos Paisano’s Salvadoran-Mexican operation, during what was Taco Party’s public service debut.

Part of the annual event’s Taste Curbside, a new component featuring Dallas’ hottest edible trend, Taco Party is owned and operated by cousins Rafael Rico and Eduardo Ramirez. It’s Dallas’ first Mexico City-style gourmet taco truck.

While Rico and Ramirez, Mexico City natives, were busy dishing out Taco Party’s fare, Lourdes Palomares, Rico’s wife, took some time to answer my questions regarding the lonchero (taco truck). Continue reading →

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by | June 7, 2012 · 5:31 pm

Rock and Roll Tacos to Serve Funday Sunday Brunch

Brunch is for lushes, the ones who power through the burn with copious amounts of potent hair of the dog and hearty fare to soak up the previous night’s impaired judgment. (OK, maybe not solely for the hungover.) What your average brunch menu doesn’t list, though, is a legendary hangover cure: Menudo, a Mexican specialty of stomach in clear or red broth.

Rock and Roll Tacos is coming to the rescue for those folk who’ve been quietly wishing for a bowl of the stuff to slurp away the booze but haven’t dared to travel outside the usual circuit when the food truck’s kitchen in LaGrange begins brunch service, June 10. They’re calling it Funday Sunday Brunch and will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Continue reading →

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by | June 5, 2012 · 2:55 pm

Bienvenidos! Taco Trail Takes a Turn

Welcome to the new Taco Trail. The clunky URL is replaced by a spiffy address, layout, extras and more tacos—lots more tacos—but the content from the blogger site has found a new home here.

Sure, there will be a few tweaks in the coming weeks, but taco trekking just got a bit cooler.

Beginning with the latest review: El Rey Del Grill on Maple Avenue. It’s below.

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by | December 7, 2011 · 11:11 pm

Tacos El Guero Is Now Tacos La Banqueta; Quality Unaltered

It’s true. The original Dallas Tacos El Guero has been rechristened Tacos La Banqueta, as first reported by fellow taco lover Elizabeth Bair on Facebook this morning. I trekked to the East Dallas stalwart for confirmation and got it when I reached the corner of the property at Bryan Street and Carroll Avenue. To be sure nothing other than the name and the paint job had been altered, I ventured in for a nosh at my favorite taqueria in Big D.

The painted menu on the back wall now sports the designation La Banqueta, a moniker better suited to the interior—scant more than a kitchen and a 12”-wide counter slowly leaning away from a plastered with international currency—and the ability diners have to eat at counter in front of the shop. Continue reading →

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by | November 29, 2011 · 6:14 pm

Chi’Lantro Sets Houston Roll-Out Date

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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 →

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