Tacos 2025
June 2 - June 8 2025
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Available Tacos for 2025
Carne asada taco, house made marinade, topped with pico, cilantro, and a side of radish and lime.
Asada taco: char grilled asada meat grilled to perfection topped off with shredded cabbage zesty pickled onion and cilantro
Super-cauli-fragilisticexpialidocious: A crispy fried cauliflower taco, with cabbage slaw, escabeche, and lemon-herby cashew crema. Practically perfect pescado: A blackened rockfish taco, with local mixed greens, cucumber-avocado pico, poblano crema, and lemon. All gluten free.
Two corn tortilla adobo braised brisket, pickled red onion, watermelon radish, fried shallot, crema & cilantro.
A tasty sweet taco made out of graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows
Fried "fish" taco with mango salsa, zesty slaw, and cilantro lime crema served on a corn tortilla.
Gringa taco, with chicharron prensado in a cheese tortilla. Has fresh pineapple, avocado and pico.
A corn tortilla with asada (steak), cactus, pico de gallo salsa, and limes.
Carne asada street taco, with grilled onions, fresh onion, cilantro and avocado salsa.
Slow smoked chopped brisket, with a chimichurri sauce, on a roasted tortilla.
Shiitake mushroom chicharrón fried shiitake mushrooms, marinated in a savory and smoky sauce, with fresh guacamole and cilantro.
Carne asada tacos w/ Veracruz style salsa macha. (The salsa also has peanuts in it.)
Smash burger taco | Crispy smash burger beef patty, American cheese, special sauce, onion, tomato, and shredded lettuce. Served with a side of ranch.
A 6" corn tortilla with an egg scrambled with peppers & onion, sausage, shaved red onion, cilantro and a side of pico de gallo
A chicken shawarma taco, with lettuce, tomatoes, garlic sauce
Quesabirria taco: It's a shredded beef with melted cheese inside a corn tortilla topped with cilantro, onions and pickled purple onions with a side of consommé that is the soup the beef was slow cooked in.
Carnitas tacos, two per $5 served with red onions, cilantro, limes and a special salsa. Michoacan style carnitas. (Pork cooked in lard with beer, coke, orange and bay leaves) using pork leg, ribs and skin.
"Papas y panza" (potatoes and belly). Two tacos, one with crispy pork belly marinaded in mo-haze-ic, and another stuffed with potato mixed with tomato, cilantro, radish, onion, and jalapeño. Both are melted with mozzarella cheese.
La taco taqueria bell doble loco taco. Their homage to the original double decker taco from San Francisco's La Taqueria and its imitator from Taco Bell. Soft tortilla layered with queso, hard taco shell, red beans, sour cream, ground beef, and Nicaraguan ensalada.
Laos petite tender barbacoa taco with Pendleton beef petite tender, onion, cilantro, corn tortilla, Laos salsa
The search for the perfect carne asada taco is over - no gristle, bursts of flavor, just pure steak perfection. Carne asada one for $5. Carnitas, al pastor, chicken, jackfruit (vegan) 2 for $5.
The el taco rey: Comes with carnitas, cactus salad, guacamole, and salsa martajada.
There are several taco options: 1.) Jackfruit tacos with pineapple salsa. 2.) Jackfruit birria tacos. 3.) Mushroom tacos. 4.) BBQ jackfruit tacos. 5.) Jackfruit tacos with onions and cilantro and 6.) Tofu tacos
Vietnamese style tacos using a bánh xèo (savory crepe shell) with pork and shrimp, with blanched bean sprouts mung beans and lettuce with Vietnamese perilla mix. Will also have a vegan version which is with seasoned impossible meat and braised coconut shavings. They also have a bò kho birria tacos special on Tuesday, which is a combination of a Vietnamese beef stew and birria recipe combined. Which will be a smaller taco with the same shell w/ cheese or slow cooked beef topped with onions and cilantro.
The bright array achiote taco - achiote chicken, tomatillo lime slaw, with fresh guacamole.
Taco gobernador - A coastal masterpiece, a luxurious fusion of land and sea. Plump, juicy shrimp are sautéed with poblano pepper, onions, and a touch of garlic, then folded into a golden, slightly crispy tortilla layered with melted cheese that pulls with every bite. The shrimp are kissed with smoky chipotle or a splash of lime. Finished with fresh cilantro and a drizzle of creamy salsa and pickled onions
