Jose’s Tacos Quietly Opens 2nd Location In Detroit’s Eastern Market
Jose’s Tacos, a new taqueria, has quietly opened in Detroit’s Eastern Market district. It’s the second location for the taqueria, which is owned and operated by Guanajuato, Mexico, natives Jose and Leticia Orozco and their children, Luis, Laura and Diana. The family’s first location opened at 218 E. Grand River in downtown Detroit five years […]
Fifth Annual Taco Crawl Coming To Downtown Pasco
PASCO, Wash. – The annual Taco Crawl is returning to downtown Pasco for its fifth year. Taco trucks and Mexican restaurants will be participating in the event, which supports the Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties. Customers, called “Taco Crawlers,” can purchase booklets for $20 until early April, after which the price […]
Cook Delicious Tacos With This More Sustainable Alaskan White Fish
SEATTLE — Food truck The Fork & Fin is one of many restaurants raising awareness about sustainable seafood as part of Seattle’s Wild Alaska Pollock Week (Feb 28 – Mar 8). Praised for its mild taste and flaky texture, wild Alaska pollock is one of the most “abundant and sustainable species in the world.” The […]
Get Cooking: Replicating Tacos El Yaqui
A subgenre of online food writing is a vast trove of what has come to be called “copycat recipes.” There, you can dig up a recipe to replicate, say, Panda Express’ Orange Chicken, or Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion. An entire site for such is at the simply worded copykat.com. When I lived in Chicago from […]
New in the Heights: Fast-Casual Tacos at Taqo Boast Clean, Creative Ingredients
It took longer than its partners wanted, but Taqo Mexican Kitchen y Tequileria is now open at 1343 Yale St. in the Heights, serving up a bevy of craft tacos and bowls for lunch and dinner with big plans ahead. “It was in pretty bad shape,” said partner Hector de Los Santos about the property […]
Condado Tacos Will Open Its Third Cleveland-Area Location In Strongsville In July
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — Condado Tacos is already on the east side and the west side. For its third Cleveland-area restaurant, the growing casual dining chain has set its sights on the south side. Its latest location is expected to open in Strongsville in July. “We’re so excited to be opening in Strongsville,” said Condado Tacos […]
El Pastor Want You to Eat Their Tacos While Listening to Dance Music
The sun has come out the day I visit Mexican restaurant El Pastor in King’s Cross. On my table are an array of dishes: seabass ceviche, the eponymous El Pastor taco, guacamole, frijoles charros, corn tortillas and salsa. I pick up a soft Baja fish taco and am reminded of the last time I ate […]
T-Ghost BBQ Serves Silky, Tender Barbacoa Tacos In The Valley
Armando “Mando” Vera is the king of barbacoa in Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley. He runs Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que in Brownsville, which is the only restaurant in Texas cooking barbacoa in the ground with wood. So when he recommended a visit to another barbacoa operation in the area, I was compelled to change my plans […]
Frankie’s Tortas And Tacos
A pumping taco and sandwich truck putts into Collingwood We’re eight-deep in the queue here at Frankie’s Tortas and Tacos, a stationary Mexican food truck servicing the outlet adventure stores of Smith Street’s arse end. “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” we exclaim, in unison, in our heads, in two-part harmony. “Why, it’s only a Tuesday! It’s but […]
These Vegan Tacos Are More Than A Trend
It’s Friday night on a busy street corner in Los Angeles’s Koreatown, and Denise Vallejo showers a handful of cilantro over a flour tortilla piled high with grilled seitan and her signature melty cassava-flour-and-cashew cheese. Her “Chicali” taco, a vegan version of the carne asada tacos sold across Mexicali, a city in northern Mexico where […]
