Tacos made by white people "less skanky," say Williamsburg indierockers

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http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/10/taco_wars_rockers_drop_atom_bo.html

Sasha Frere Jones' restaurant review column: comin' soon

dom passantino restaurant review column

since this thread is pretty fucking stupid lets turn it into that

fuck a hipster taco!!!

Lucky Seven, London W2: good guacamole

lol curtis is a schmuck. too bad jensen's involved.

Buddies: http://www.buddiesrestaurants.com/ - _the_ great Northamptont tradition

Taco truck front man Jeff Jensen in one of his many guises:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j5MmLy8W6PY

it doesn't say how much these non skanky tacos cost...?

dom: http://www.fazolis.com/

John Sharkey is not having a good night.

The singer/guitarist/provocateur of punk rock noise outfit Clockcleaner is sharing a bill at the Khyber with New York City’s Bad Wizard—a band he doesn’t care for, at a club he doesn’t like. It’s cold out, and his furious playing style has caused him to throw out his shoulder again, something he fears is becoming a problem.

After his band’s set, he has a drink. As Bad Wizard begin the night’s last set, he has another.

The show wraps up and Sharkey, still in pain, does what he can to help load gear into the van. He has another drink and goes upstairs to retrieve his coat from the green room. There Sharkey finds Bad Wizard’s “fat, Mr. Kotter-looking” lead singer sitting on his coat. The singer moves when asked, but only slightly.

Suddenly “Mr. Kotter,” who hasn’t made an attempt at conversation the entire gig, lets out a hearty chuckle about the night’s payout. He and his Sweathogs: $600. Clockcleaner: considerably less.

Sharkey, outweighed and an arm short, decides throwing a punch would be less than a smart idea. So instead he takes a breath, goes downstairs and walks toward the exit. To the right of the door sits Bad Wizard’s merch table: CDs, T-shirts, stickers and vinyl all laid out carefully for consumption. It’s unmanned.

Sharkey could walk out, but he doesn’t. Instead he pulls out his penis and, in his own words, “unleashes a bladder-full of the night’s beer piss” all over their merchandise.

god williamsburg seems terrible

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more Jensen funnies:
http://www.myspace.com/justfarralaugh

truth be told, I remember those dudes did make bitchin guac.

there is actually an awesome taco place (matamoros) less than a block from where that truck will be.

why doesn't nick denton just buy nymag

speaking of which, holee crap that nymag cover story on gawker was embarrassing

ha!that article refers to a place called Pinche taqueria
That's slang for Fucking Taco Stand

this is soooo close to where i work. would not normally patronize based on the "less skanky" quote above, as well as loyalty to both matamoros and yola's, but i am intrigued by corn chowder.

I MUST RESERVE JUDGEMENT UNTIL I KNOW HOW MUCH THE TACOS COST

note that matamoros raised prices in the last year to $2.50 per taco.

however they also put in a fancy computerized receipt-printing system.

will taco truck have jarittos?

the last person I want making me a taco is some skinny white hipster fuck from NY, christ

man what a creep!

matamoros and yola's are hardly skanky

dude is a "prankster"
DO NOT TAKE LITERALLY

who cares if tacos are skanky as long as they are delicious? with the exception of maybe fish tacos.

pulled pork, roasted chicken and beef, Baja-style fish, plus menudo soup (with tripe) and corn chowder for winter.

WHY DOES NOBODY SERVE LENGUA? Fuck this. Fuck it. Fuck this. And fish tacos do not have my fandom.

I have gotten a skanky burrito from matamoros one time. But i kind of blame the person who brought it to me.

Was it Peter Jennings? I heard he doesn't wash his hands after going to the bathroom.

fuck a hipster taco!!!

-- carne asada, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:46 PM

ew

Lots of places serve lengua tacos around here!

(in the lol midwest)

And fish tacos do not have my fandom.

You're landlocked right?

sometimes he gets spooked while peeing and will start running in mid-stream.

ok wau

lengua, sesos, camarones, its all on the menus here

people serve lengua, just not these people! cos whitey are afraid of tongue on they taco

Bonita needs to deliver everywhere.

I thought this thread was going to be about only going to Taco Bell if you see white people working behind the counter.

u guys know the story about motley crue fucking burritos after fucking groupies so their dicks wouldnt smell like pussy when they came home to their gf's??

no chille rellenos, no credibility

fucking chile rellenos works too??

how is yr dick smelling of burritos somehow less suspicious...?

"dood yr dick smells like beans and salsa, but hey I guess at least you haven't stuck it in any other pussies lately - here, have a BJ"

There's kind of the legendary question attached to that story: "where in the LA metropolitan area do you have access to a microwave and a frozen burrito, but not water and a bar of soap?"

a) max's house

cos whitey are afraid of tongue on they taco

for real though!

lolol xpost

I am afraid of tongue on anything that I'm supposed to be eating and I'm not ashamed to say it.

microwave burritos makes that story like 10 times grosser

I've tasted tongue tacos
I've finished tongue tacos
And I tell you, sir, there is something unpleasant about the texture combination of a tongue taco

i fear no tongue

I have also had brain tacos, BTW. It's important to understand that there are things people eat in the world not because they're so terrific, but just because the parts are there and why waste them, at least it's a change of pace, etc.

I mean dudes I love some lengua, but I eat menudo too, so I guess Mexicans are just weird.

(clarification: Mexicans and Mexican-Americans (such as myself) eat weird things like lengua & menudo)

I ate a crapload of tripe a couple weeks back, too, but I will admit to feeling a little digestive discomfort the next day

placenta

nabisca

what is biggie verse where he says 'placenta,' i'm blanking

i like lengua & menudo because of the funny textures

dude is a "prankster"
DO NOT TAKE LITERALLY

otm, curtis is ridic but not evil. i could see him being a great cook, but i'm not sure i want his hands on anything that ends up in my mouth.

the what

"Honies feel it deep in they placenta"

line always ew'd me out

xp to deej

u a prude, big hoos.

By the middle of March, when the pregnancy starts
In your ladies' placenta, that means L just entered

http://www.favoritebrandrecipes.com/images/Logo_gifs/Low_Res/oLawrys.low.gif

In the Motley Crue world safe sex means meeting up in Tommy's van after a night of sneaky shagging and clubbing together to buy an egg burrito so that the band members could wipe their band members on the burrito meat in the belief that this would throw their girlfriends off the scent.

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/10/29_tacos_lgl.jpg

WTF is that, hamburger meat with ketchup?

wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat
wipe their band members on the burrito meat

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/10/29_tacos_lgl.jpg

Mom says it's taco night!

Thanks for almost making me puke, chaki!

if i ever open a burrito place im naming one of my burritos the "motley crue special"

tapatio dick

chorizo w/ red sauce?

xpost to hurting

If you're dissing Mom's taco night, you're dissing Mom.
PREPARE TO DIE

people serve lengua, just not these people! cos whitey are afraid of tongue on they taco

Yes fuck that, I want all of the world meats.

“This is the first real authentic taqueria in New York City,” he boasts, and make no mistake, that includes his neighbor. “La Esquina is nowhere near authentic as far as I’m concerned.” So how is Pinche different?

At his spot, Chartier says, abuelitas make fresh tortillas

Wait, this is just as ridiculous - he hires grandmothers to make his tacos so they're more authentic?

I wonder if there was a heirarchy to the wiping. Who got sloppy seconds, (and thirds, fourths), since they bought only one burrito?

1. Lee
2. Sixx
3. Neil
4. Mars

http://www.favoritebrandrecipes.com/images/Logo_gifs/Low_Res/oLawrys.low.gif

YYYYY

Their restaurant at Disneyland was real good (IIRC from when I was eight).

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/10/29_tacos_lgl.jpg

NNNNN ground beef is the armpit of the taco world.

yeah those do not look as good as matamoros. for comparison:
http://cleanplateclubnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Matamoros.jpg

"another whirled meats thread"

At his spot, Chartier says, abuelitas make fresh tortillas

Wait, this is just as ridiculous - he hires grandmothers to make his tacos so they're more authentic?

They are just ripping off Andy Warhol's thing of moving your elderly mom to NYC and farming her out to do your work.

1. Lee
2. Sixx
3. Neil
4. Mars

-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:46 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

so otm

I read "The Dirt."
That's how it went down.

yeah those do not look as good as matamoros.

it's just a stock photo

oh! i thought you were jokes

nymag is maybe the worst vanity magazine about new york

I have had some amazing, and also some VERY skanky tacos, in and around Roosevelt Avenue, fwiw.

taco humor is edgy

i still stand by the mexican bakery on the corner of 21st street and 5th ave on the cusp of sunset park. some of the best chicken tacos i've had anywhere, and they're 24hrs.

Dan is that in queens?

Have you had Jarritos yet JW?

nymag is maybe the worst vanity magazine about new york

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I smell a poll!

Have you had Jarritos yet JW?

No I've eaten schwarma or falafel for the past few daze

jon have you ever even been to queens?

he's probably flown outta laguardia or jfk, sure.

I ate a crapload of tripe a couple weeks back, too, but I will admit to feeling a little digestive discomfort the next day

"crapload of tripe" might be the most awesome X of Y term ever.

I was going to make a car joke, but you guys turned it into a joke about me never going to queens :(

I don't know why I would go other than food / shows

there are lots of azn chicks?

xpost - zing/11111!!!

mets games?
museums?
parks?
queensboro plaza strip clubs?

JW go get some fucking Jarritos right now. Are they that hard to find?

My Jersey-defending days are over; I will however stand firmly by the taqueria in my neighborhood and if for some reason anyone is ever burdened with the curse of having to spend some time in Jersey City, I recommend walking the three blocks from the Grove St. PATH and getting thee some carnitas tacos.

I have had some amazing, and also some VERY skanky tacos, in and around Roosevelt Avenue, fwiw.

when is your taco truck opening? already done the research!!

there are lots of azn chicks?

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i work at nyu!

Hurting,
where exactly? name?

Taqueria Downtown, corner of Grove and Grand Sts., Jersey City. (walk down Grove from the PATH stop). Other tacos good too (fish, barbacoa, chorizo, cecina, etc. Chiles Rellenos were great once and not so great another time. Enchiladas verdes are dope. Flan is aws. Weekend stuff good too (chilaquiles, huevos rancheros, etc.)

Just FArr a Laugh is lol city

much x-post

I TOTALLY wouldve opened a taco truck, but not if I got competition for the corner of N 7th and Bedford! Word for a while was that someone was going to park a taco truck in the courtyard of Union Pool.

Sometimes late at night I drive down Roosevelt Ave and I just want to say "hey! over there, just over that polluted creek, there are more hungry drunk people with more money than they know what to do with!"

It'd be one thing if they were all doing fine in queens, but it's pretty competitive and for the standards there are always places and trucks opening and closing.

has anyone been to the new taco bite on s4th and rodney? i'm gonna go

Tacos Gringos

No claims of less skankiness or anything that I heard, but seems like a similar concept. hm.

(sorry for the link being a Yelp link, but the place doesn't have a website yet.)

My book club is reading Crüe's the dirt this month.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/felicityredwell/2328676606/sizes/l/

^^good Logan Street taco truck in Echo Park. Taco = $1.25.

oops

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2328676606_9100cd4c3f_b.jpg

Is the clientele always so guapo?

¡Si!

tacos not actually made my white people, order just taken my white girl.
also: pretty bland. you can dress it up with lettuce and salsas and lime and onion and radish but it doesn't disguise the fact that the meat is pretty bland and dry (i had the beef & chicken.)

"my white girl" = "by white girl"

and "by white people" too, obv.

lettuce = white ppl tacos

otm.

i think it depends on what part of mexico yr in actually. some places there i've been they seem to do the lettuc e thing, sometimes with a slice of avocado on it, but other places it's just the cilantro/onion toppings...

so is the gringo car in operation, ian? where? and what the hell happened to the dude who was parked over by bedford/driggs a few weeks ago? he had lengua.

cart, not car.

truck was on bedford & n6th. these folks definitely did NOT have lengua. seitan, they had, i think. seitan = white people tacos.

i really, really, really hate seitan.

That truck on Logan is pretty good, but the one around the corner from El Pescado Mojado is better.

taco joints selling white girl is not an uncommon thing around here.

i'm looking forward to skanky tacos in an hour

Lolpez where are the coordinates of your better taco truck? I have tried both the Logan Street taco trucks north and south of Sunset.

I like the Cabeze and Carne and lots of radish.

tacos not actually made my white people, order just taken my white girl.

I wonder what the odds are that any kind of food you order anywhere in New York is actually made by white people.

lettuce = white ppl tacos

-- dan m, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 1:34 PM (2 hours ago)

some mexicans are "white" btw, and yes, in mexico you can get tacos with lettuce (but more often, shredded napa cabbage).

come to mexico with me anytime and I can show you how it's done fools.

I know, I thought of that after I wrote it. And I've had the cabbage ones, they're good!

I have not been to this place, but iirc some of their tacos involve pickled red onion

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?erube_fh=wttw&wttw.submit.CPRestaurantDetail=1&wttw.RestaurantID=217

I do like good LA tacos but after eating amazing tacos like 4 x a week sometimes I just like to chizz out with some white trash tacos at the 'Bell or Jack.

http://www.xnipec.us/Panuchos.jpg

more of a sope I guess

Jack in the Box tacos are more delicious than any taco made with a slice of American cheese should be.

Oh yeah. There are also the fish taco chains, which are a whole separate thread.

For hipster indie rock tacos, Bonita's tacos were ok. They're just really, really, really, really expensive.

taco joints selling white girl is not an uncommon thing around here.

roflz

seitan tacos = RONG

The superior Logan taco truck is the one north of sunset, in front of that tortilleria.

SCOOPED by a HOOS!

Thanks anyway.

I went on my first date in nyc to bonita

I have not been to this place, but iirc some of their tacos involve pickled red onion

Pickled onions and achiote are what I've read about in lots of Yucatan stuff. I think I actually made these once, you might even have eaten them but I don't remember.

I had tacos from a skanky truck the other day and I expected more awesome. Cabbage and radishes but no salsa out which was unforgiveable.

jon, have u been to taco santana? is near your place and GOOD.

all the time

if u want tacos move the west coast

i don't even have to move the west side

you can get a fucking taco anywhere, people.
they're fucking tacos.
taco snobbery = go invest in some monster cables while you're at it

i am pretty jealous of west coasters' access to good produce, though.

i like tacos

I have a theory that the west coast climate and access to fresh stuff all the time is why they are such massive, massive chumps when it comes to spicy stuff. I could hardly even find hot INDIAN FOOD in SF. I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy it, but it just ain't the same.

cue west coast people saying something they get somewhere out there is totally hot and spicy and being completely ignorant

we ripen our shit with Frank's and black pepper, we don't need it to taste like itself.

i think this is more of a north-south distinction and question of what immigrant groups are found where

I'm all for being taco rockist up to a point, but at some point somebody somewhere in Mexico (or maybe California?) put cabbage in a taco for the first time. Before that, tacos with cabbage weren't real tacos, and after that, they were.

I just read that the Taco Al Pastor is actually an adaptation of schwarma-style meat from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico.

you can get a fucking taco anywhere, people.
they're fucking tacos.
taco snobbery = go invest in some monster cables while you're at it

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 9:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

trolllll

I'm all for being taco rockist up to a point, but at some point somebody somewhere in Mexico (or maybe California?) put cabbage in a taco for the first time. Before that, tacos with cabbage weren't real tacos, and after that, they were.

I would like to hear more of this fable

fried fish tacos w/shredded cabbage and a drizzle of crema are so delicious

baja style yum ^ !

I mean saying "You don't put x on a taco!" is a little like saying "You don't put x on a sandwich!"

anyone else been to that place on elizabeth st (not Habana...)? It's new-ish and good.

pinche? good but expensive. i got a fish taco there and it was two tiny pieces of fish for $4 or $5.

I just read that the Taco Al Pastor is actually an adaptation of schwarma-style meat from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico.
Fried fish tacos were developed in Baja based on Japanese fisherman's tempura.

and the deep-frying used in temupra was imported from Europe, iirc

pinche? good but expensive. i got a fish taco there and it was two tiny pieces of fish for $4 or $5.

oh, pinche is on mott.

Before that, tacos with cabbage weren't real tacos, and after that, they were.

No, they were. They just weren't "traditional". But now they are. The vast majority of taco eaters didn't but lettuce, tomato, and shredded cheese on their tacos, but lots of white people in Texas preferred that to cilantro and onions (or was it because cilantro wasn't readily available in the US a few decades ago?), and now that's a "traditional" tex-mex taco. Pointing out that most Mexicans don't eat lettuce etc on a taco, while most white people do isn't Tacoist. Neither is saying that cilantro and onions is more authentic, cause it is! Being a snob about it is when you become a Tacoist. Shit, put some ketchup and peanut butter on that bitch if you think it tastes better, who cares, it'll still be a taco.

but tex-mex and californians' view of 'mexican food' are two entirely different things.

I didn't know I was arguing otherwise.

http://www.arabes.com.mx/

well your whole bit up there was about texas and tex-mex, whereas the tacos dudes have been discussing for the better part of the thread are more california/baja/yucatan.

anyway, no big deal. i don't wanna become a taco rockist, esp. since i live in new york!

Well, just to nitpick, you can use the word "authentic" with a country or region but not a food, i.e. there might be more and less authentic Yucatanian tacos but not more and less authentic tacos.

definitely.

I just read that the Taco Al Pastor is actually an adaptation of schwarma-style meat from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico.

That makes sense...I've even seen Al Pastor on mexican menus described as pineapple marinated pork from a spit. The best Pastor tacos I've had are from De Mole in Sunnyside, which is shockingly close to Greenpoint and unfortunately more and more people are realizing that because it's getting packed. When I wrote it up for yelp you could always get a seat there, now I won't even go on the weekend. I WAS THERE. Their other tacos are on the bland side but their mole burrito, their tinga beef brisket and other dishes make De Mole one of the best mexican choices in NYC. THERE I GO AGAIN, ruining it for the locals.

We came across a fair number of Lebanese-owned businesses in Merida The Lebanese restaurant we ate at was kind of nasty though.

True in the case of tacos, but not true for all foods.
xpost

actually no, that's not even true. If someone hands me some ground beef wrapped up in white bread and topped with mayonaiise and calls it a taco, i'm gonna say that's not an authentic taco

pinche? good but expensive. i got a fish taco there and it was two tiny pieces of fish for $4 or $5.

-- mizzell, Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yes i just went here and u are correct
most of the tacos are 2.75 and one or two are 3.75 (fish or shrimp i think). they're great, but small

anywhere there are mexicans, good tacos will follow.

waht abt the taco cart in soho guys

ooof i want some tacos now!

i have never tried the soho dudes (calexico or somethinge??). i was just down there on an errand and thought "hmm, tacos...," but it was so unbearable that i left without checking them out.

i have heard those soho tacos are good

soho tacoho

calexico is the name of a fantastic and cheap old-skool mexican restaurant on 5th ave in brooklyn, up near the atlantic center - if it's still there what with all the hoo ha

beans, rice, eggs, tortillas, o.j. and coffee for less than $4 - as the kool-ade man says, "OH YEAH"

yah its still there - ate there a few weeks ago!

I have a theory that the west coast climate and access to fresh stuff all the time is why they are such massive, massive chumps when it comes to spicy stuff.

Hmm, no.

tombot in outdouching williamsburg indierockers shocker

15. CALEXICO
Wooster St. nr. Prince St.
There’s no such thing as a cheap lunch in Soho, you say? Then you haven’t been to this yearling cart, the joint venture of three brothers from Southern California. Most weekdays, hungry hipsters lean against the side of a nearby building, waiting patiently for tacos, burritos, and Mexican-style grilled corn. Come early or risk missing out on some of the more popular items—the chipotle pulled pork, say, or the medium-hot salsa verde. But Calexico’s raison d’etre is the marinated skirt steak called carne asada, a carefully cooked, well-spiced piece of meat cut into manageable chunks and piled into overstuffed $7 burritos or $3 soft-corn-tortilla tacos, properly garnished with cabbage, cilantro, and onion. The marinade recipe is a closely guarded secret, of course, but we thought we detected a subtle undercurrent of A1.

Hmm, no.

spoken like a true chump

hungry hungry hipsters

I have not been to this place, but iirc some of their tacos involve pickled red onion

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?erube_fh=wttw&wttw.submit.CPRestaurantDetail=1&wttw.RestaurantID=217

My dad was there recently, he said it was A+.

i've had ridiculously spicy food in socal, more than anywhere else. tbh i rarely like my food really spicy because sometimes i think places forget flavor in the pursuit of being "teh spiciest in town1!~"

massive, massive

jaymc, did he say how long he had to wait for a table?

when i first moved out to the bay area, i really missed hot Mexican food and bitched about the lack of spice in all of the food out here.

after living here a few years, my taste buds have adapted, and i enjoy subtle flavors like cilantro, chopped white onions, cabbage, and a generous squeeze of lime - things that aren't overwhelmed by hot sauce.

like pizza, there is no definitive taco or burrito. whether you put mango salsa and rocky jr. chicken on corn tortillas, or you prefer loads of tapatio and spicy ground beef on grilled flour, it's just a template for deliciousness.

Nope, GD. Are you still in the burbs?

i never considered cilantro or raw onion to be subtle, but i get your drift

spoken like a true chump

?

yep. naperthrill/aurora area. worried xni pec is perpetually busy due to check please effect.

i never considered cilantro or raw onion to be subtle, but i get your drift

well it's more about how they contrast and accent other stronger flavors like al pastor. i wrote a long-winded thing, but it read kind of douchey so i deleted a bunch of it.

http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages/76807.jpg

calexico is the name of a fantastic and cheap old-skool mexican restaurant on 5th ave in brooklyn, up near the atlantic center - if it's still there what with all the hoo ha

I dunno no about fantastic...I used to get their pollo tacos and they were dry and cardboard. Their breakfast, however, was the best deal in town. It was like 4 dollars for a giant plate of scrambled eggs, chorizo, beans, rice, tortilla etc.

Best tacos in that area though is Fast and Fresh Deli, hoyt just above Atlantic, looks like just another bodega. It's not. And by area, I mean south brooklyn but as far south as Sunset Park.

I dunno no about fantastic

????

i just got back from Isla Mujeres and the tacos (lots of fresh grouper tacos) were great...they did the cabbage/lettuce/slice of avocado thing. w/lime slices.

i had shrimp filled chili rellenos which were mega bomb. also one was filled with "Godfish"

I hope that was a misspelling of codfish and not a misspelling of goldfish

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Ichthys.svg/360px-Ichthys.svg.png

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Chicagoland has much better Mexican food than the New York area because, duh, more Mexicans.

I never made it to that Matmos place on Bedford that is supposed to be good. A lot of the bodegas make tacos and tamales. The one bodega on the northwest corner of Grand and Bedford (being squeezed out by the two Khim's Millenia Markets) makes what I think are edible $1 tacos for your dirtbag steez.

The whole notion of "white" in 2008 America is pretty meaningless IMO. Such a friggan straw man.

I'm still white

whoopee for you

yaaaaaayyyy

there is a good fish taco place a few blocks away from me which has tacos for a buck. and another one which has some amazing carnitas tacos.

i just realize there are like 0 tacos in my work neighborhood.

felicity, it was matamoros, and they closed :( :( :(

Yay Tombot. I think white guys get kind of a bad rap.

xp What else has closed? Everything was shutting at a blinding rate when I left in January. I want you and JW to come see the glory of our taco trucks in LA.

best part of chicago bars now that they've banned smoking: the tamale guys.

better than those weird "burrito guys"

wait wait wait.... are there burrito guys on the north side??!?!?

no, joke from long long ago in a part of the thread far far away

my short term memory = out the window for the last decade.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Ichthys.svg/360px-Ichthys.svg.png

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Don't get it. Was wondering why you were calling me a chump.

Chicagoland has much better Mexican food than the New York area because, duh, more Mexicans.

I dunno... isn't "there's no good Mexican food in nyc" going the way of "all british food is bland" in terms of food truisms?

And anyway, nyc kicks our asses all over the place in the chinese food department, so I ain't gonna start bragging about the superiority of our cheap takeout anytime soon.

Don't know about NYC, but in my experience, Chicago has better Mexican food than the Southwest. Or, if not better, definitely more diverse. Chicago gets Mexican cooks from all over Mexico, whereas the vast majority of Mexican cooks in the Southwest come from Chihuahua.

good to know

in my experience, Chicago has mexican food, that I do not eat very often at all.

(unintential rjg comma, oopsie)

whereas i eat it every chance i get.

dc does not have good mexican. sad.

Chicagoland has much better Mexican food than the New York area because, duh, more Mexicans.

I tried to make this point on a thread long ago, and Ally yelled at me. :/

good to know you think it's good to know

I was actually quoting population figures and shit.

i wonder how pissed off the bartender at rainbo would be if i plopped down at the bar with a burrito from la pasadita? i've gone over to picante and brought stuff back from there before but it was always with a bunch of people and we were in a booth.

wash it down with a couple shots and he'll be fine with it.

don't let them fool you Que, it's just that here you have to pay a little more and occasionally make a reservation to get "good mexican," as opposed to having them bring it to in a greasy truck

i make a point of eating mexican food when in chicago. there's some great places here in madison too, but you have to know where to go as (opposed to picking one out of any three places on a given block).

none of these suckers have amsterdam falafel so we can twitter about that and make them jealous

ohhhhh right. good point. i am just jealous of taco trucks. also i am not picky when it comes to tacos and i will eat baja fresh or california tortilla or whatever

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/taco.JPG

I don't really care about authentic as long as it tastes goooooood. I need to chizz out at Titos now.

Thanks for the tacobutt, thread.

I need to go back to Minneapolis and eat my way up Lake Street. Chicago pffffft.

(waiting for kenan to go way inappropriate with "tacobutt" in 5... 4... 3... )

jordan nails it, i think -- there's SO MUCH taqueria food all over the north and west side that of course a lot of it's going to be... well... skanky. And a lot of it is for true; there's no reason to get all culturally aware and tolerant when some dude just served you a chicken neck that's kinda green in spots. Man, I've gotten so so sick eating in those "little out of the way places." Don't drink the water, as they say.

But then sometimes you get a pork taco drenched in just the EXACT right kind of orange grease... oooohhh...

hahah this guy

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there was also something called "Wreckfish" too which sounded kinda badass

woah.

What is the social standing of that "el famous burrito" chain in chicagoland? I ate at one and it wasn't half bad.

it's so famous i've never heard of it?

looks like they're in the suburbs except for one way the fuck up on clark street that's got to be close to the city limits.

xp I've heard of it. I think it's mostly in the suburbs.

I suddenly have this weird memory of eating at El Famous Burrito in Downers Grove on the day of the George Bell-Sammy Sosa trade.

i am so totally jonesing for a burrito now but i know it's going to be pouring by the time i get back to the neighborhood.

Hyde Park is surprisingly devoid of good tacos/burritos.

I've been eating at the one near Fox Valley Mall, just because I'm in 3 month training right nearby and I only get 30 min lunch. The steak tacos are passable, but everything else I've had has been...not so good. (I don't eat burritos)

what do you have against a burrito?

The other suburban Chicago burrito chain is El Burrito Loco. Which is where I had horchata for the first time (upon G. B0gler's recommendation, I believe).

"3 month training"?

burritos="here's everything we have in the kitchen and we threw it all in a tortilla". Rice and beans are sides! Your results may vary etc

(3 month training for a new position at my current office)

the burritos at la pasadita are just steak, cilantro, and onion. then you add either the black sauce or green sauce. the perfection lies in the simplicity.

uh, obviously there's a tortilla with the steak, cilantro, and onion.

that sounds great. i usually don't order burritos because the rice & beans are too much.

next time you're in town.

we got the best damn taco stand in Durham right now, best I've had since the days of King Taco near County USC in L.A.

what's with burritos? it just occurs to me that i don't think i've ever seen a burrito in mexico

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^ who was threadstarter btw

burro=mule

-ito=small

A burrito is a tiny donkey.

wait no really no wayHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

38. Irish Gyro
Grilled roast beef, garlic mayo, feta, lettuce, tomato, green onions stuffed in a warm pita
$6.00

so the la pasadita burrito is basically a huge, rolled up taco then? They did look good when I saw people eating them, but I figured there must be rice and/or beans in there somewhere. Why don't you just put potatoes and beans on a hamburger, is what I think about burritos, basically.

yeah what's that about

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/1253037551_6fcd87ebf0.jpg

when i lived in PHX all the taquerias were similar to Filiberto's. Minimal stuff with meat, pico de gallo, and guacamole. They were very filling and delicious. My favorite burrito in the city was a version of Filiberto's Arizona Burrito, which was steak, pico, cheese, and potatoes.

I ate at a Albertaco's when I was in Colorado, and I was pretty wtf'd by them slopping on a whole gang of guac on my carne asada tacos. No cilantro, no onions, no salsa, just meat and tons of guac.

a version, meaning it wasn't from Filiberto's (which kinda sucked imo) but had identical ingredients.

I love hitting the random small towns in central Washington State that are now heavily Mexican - lots of old 50's burger joints and drive-ins are taquerias now, not to mention disproportionately huge per-capita number of taco trucks.

I've been getting tortas lately but regretting it later because I can only eat so much torta bread before I feel like I'm going to die.

So Monkeytown is reopen, which is great, but they don't apparently have live music anymore, and it's an $80 prepaid prix fixe thing by a rotating cast of chefs.

http://www.monkeytown3.com/program/

reopen in a new location I should say

oh and actually that includes drink pairings, so it's really not a bad deal

the old place had really nice restrooms. like really nice.

could eat a taco right off the floor

oh and actually the site makes it sound ike maybe they will eventually have live music, but "not for the first month"

yes, the restrooms were great! they had sound installations in them.

Will rep for Taco Santana on Keap & Broadway near Marcy JMZ fwiw. Deece quality, fair prices, around the corner from Trophy Bar.

Love Taco Santana! I don't know what my Mexican friends would say about it but I like it fine.

I did go to a place in Bushwick last weekend that's like in someone's slightly improved garage space. The tortillas were handmade and fresh--my quesadilla didn't have any cheese on it actually so I'm not sure why they call it that, but it tasted awesome.

taco santana is awesome

On #4 I think?

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― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:44 (8 years ago)