Best authentic Mexican food ?Parking: This taco truck it's located at a gas station on Pearl and 46th in the North end.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pupusas, Al Pastor Marinated, Burrito, Nachos, Taco, Street Tacos
Noir Moon
Way to expensive for what you get. They wont even add the sauce to it. You have to go behind to a bar that is dirty and anyone can come and do anything to the items inside if it. I mean, $12.50 for 5 street tacos...Parking: no where to park.Wheelchair accessibility: none
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Street Tacos
Joshua T.
Best authentic Mexican food you can get. Service was fast and had a salsa bar on the side. Menu was easy to read and showed you everything you could eat. I would highly recommend this place!
Brandon Bast
Food is great and the service is as well!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Burrito, Torta, Street Tacos
Jake
The owners are so polite and the food is amazing. All home made products. Best birria in tacoma!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lee peterson
The worst taco truck I have ever ordered from. customer service was horrible food was waaaayyyy overpriced.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Fajitas, Street Tacos
Courtney Liu
Amazing to have such a great taco truck in the neighborhood. If you’re hoping to try some authentic Mexican dishes that you can’t find in the typical restaurants, this is your place. I’d highly suggest the 3 big quesabirria with consomé, chunks of tender beef stew in cheesy tacos dipped into flavorful beef broth. Mmmm so good. If you haven’t had tacos with tongue or tripe, you better try it here. The tongue is tender and tripe is crispy, almost like chicharron. Enchiladas in mole sauce, pollo a la crema, fajitas were all spot on. A bit of caution about the dishes with a la diabla sauce, they weren’t kidding when they said the devil is in the sauce. It had a slow burn on the tongue and mouth that built up and interrupted my meal 5 times. Fun for the adventurous eat or for a spice challenge at a party, not for the faint of heart. Still have many more things to try, alambres, birria tortas, pupusas, different soups, etc.The people that own the taco truck are also very nice. The lady allowed me to practice my poor Duolingo style Spanish even though she easily could’ve handled the conversation in English in half the time.Lastly, don’t miss out on the salsas around the back side of the taco truck.
Steve Largent
The consomme for the quesobirria was rotten and made me sick for 2 days.
E Shane
I got the tamale plate ( beef) absolutely delicious , soooo good .you gotta try it ! I'm going back for the Asada Fries ! the Limonaid is exquisite as well. Rice , beans all perfectly done. Remember it's a resturant type place Not fast food , you gotta wait a bit and not long either Patience it's WORTH it !Parking: it's right at a gas station. don't park at or block the pumps ! ( duh I know but some people)
Absolutely love this place we live right behind them, it's dangerous living behind a taco truck ? They are a little spendy but everything has gone up so much in cost. Parking can be a little bit challenging so normally we walk over there but they are a great place for lunch or if you do not have time to cook dinner.
Teri E
My new favorite for street tacos!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mai
Just had the 5 Street Quesabirrias. They somehow disappeared…and now I need more ?
Trish Blau
I love Mexican cuisine, but this was not my favorite. We tried this through delivery (Grub Hub?) even though we are about a two minute car ride to the truck. We were feeling lazy and enjoying the extended New Year's Day holiday. With that being said, our food arrived in the time that I felt like it should with the truck being so close to us. The food was warm enough but not sizzling hot. Our dishes were served in aluminum foil plates/flat bottom bowls of decent size and plastic lids. I ordered two dishes just to get a feel for their food. One dish was nachos and the other was their street tacos platter. The street tacos platter consisted of three chicken (my choice of meat) tacos, refried beans and rice. The meat in the tacos was a little less in quantity than I expected and lacked a little flavor, the beans were not bad, and I didn't try the rice. I'm just not a huge fan of rice but the looks of it - looked tasty.My next dish was nachos. They were tasty enough. I went with the ground beef (my choice of meat). The additions were cheese, refried beans, and tomatoes. I asked for some diced onion to be added which they obliged. It wasn't the best nachos nor the worst. The flavor was good enough but I didn't feel like much care was put into making the nachos. All of the goods were just centered in the middle. There were quite a few dry chips underneath. The guacamole and sour cream were just glopped on top - I should have know better and requested them on the side. So the top layer of chips were over loaded and kind of soggy. Not the end of the world, I just felt that they weren't made with love.I liked the red sauce, it was spicy, not a complaint just my observation, and the green sauce was pretty tasty and mild.All in all, I would give the place another try but for now I list them mediocre.
Matt B
Ordered 5 quesabirria tacos with a small side of consomé. Tacos were small but packed with meat and cheese and the flavor was good. Would have liked them to be grilled a little more to make them crispier, so I did it myself when I got home and was very happy with the result. Consomé was just fine, I've had better and I've had worse. Decent salsa bar. I have a few notes, but it's the only food truck and best Mexican food on this side of 6th Ave, so I'll definitely be back.
Tasteless meat and stale tortillas..bummer.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 4
Best authentic Mexican food ?Parking: This taco truck it's located at a gas station on Pearl and 46th in the North end.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pupusas, Al Pastor Marinated, Burrito, Nachos, Taco, Street Tacos
Way to expensive for what you get. They wont even add the sauce to it. You have to go behind to a bar that is dirty and anyone can come and do anything to the items inside if it. I mean, $12.50 for 5 street tacos...Parking: no where to park.Wheelchair accessibility: none
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Street Tacos
Best authentic Mexican food you can get. Service was fast and had a salsa bar on the side. Menu was easy to read and showed you everything you could eat. I would highly recommend this place!
Food is great and the service is as well!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Burrito, Torta, Street Tacos
The owners are so polite and the food is amazing. All home made products. Best birria in tacoma!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The worst taco truck I have ever ordered from. customer service was horrible food was waaaayyyy overpriced.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Fajitas, Street Tacos
Amazing to have such a great taco truck in the neighborhood. If you’re hoping to try some authentic Mexican dishes that you can’t find in the typical restaurants, this is your place. I’d highly suggest the 3 big quesabirria with consomé, chunks of tender beef stew in cheesy tacos dipped into flavorful beef broth. Mmmm so good. If you haven’t had tacos with tongue or tripe, you better try it here. The tongue is tender and tripe is crispy, almost like chicharron. Enchiladas in mole sauce, pollo a la crema, fajitas were all spot on. A bit of caution about the dishes with a la diabla sauce, they weren’t kidding when they said the devil is in the sauce. It had a slow burn on the tongue and mouth that built up and interrupted my meal 5 times. Fun for the adventurous eat or for a spice challenge at a party, not for the faint of heart. Still have many more things to try, alambres, birria tortas, pupusas, different soups, etc.The people that own the taco truck are also very nice. The lady allowed me to practice my poor Duolingo style Spanish even though she easily could’ve handled the conversation in English in half the time.Lastly, don’t miss out on the salsas around the back side of the taco truck.
The consomme for the quesobirria was rotten and made me sick for 2 days.
I got the tamale plate ( beef) absolutely delicious , soooo good .you gotta try it ! I'm going back for the Asada Fries ! the Limonaid is exquisite as well. Rice , beans all perfectly done. Remember it's a resturant type place Not fast food , you gotta wait a bit and not long either Patience it's WORTH it !Parking: it's right at a gas station. don't park at or block the pumps ! ( duh I know but some people)
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Al Pastor
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Absolutely love this place we live right behind them, it's dangerous living behind a taco truck ? They are a little spendy but everything has gone up so much in cost. Parking can be a little bit challenging so normally we walk over there but they are a great place for lunch or if you do not have time to cook dinner.
My new favorite for street tacos!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Just had the 5 Street Quesabirrias. They somehow disappeared…and now I need more ?
I love Mexican cuisine, but this was not my favorite. We tried this through delivery (Grub Hub?) even though we are about a two minute car ride to the truck. We were feeling lazy and enjoying the extended New Year's Day holiday. With that being said, our food arrived in the time that I felt like it should with the truck being so close to us. The food was warm enough but not sizzling hot. Our dishes were served in aluminum foil plates/flat bottom bowls of decent size and plastic lids. I ordered two dishes just to get a feel for their food. One dish was nachos and the other was their street tacos platter. The street tacos platter consisted of three chicken (my choice of meat) tacos, refried beans and rice. The meat in the tacos was a little less in quantity than I expected and lacked a little flavor, the beans were not bad, and I didn't try the rice. I'm just not a huge fan of rice but the looks of it - looked tasty.My next dish was nachos. They were tasty enough. I went with the ground beef (my choice of meat). The additions were cheese, refried beans, and tomatoes. I asked for some diced onion to be added which they obliged. It wasn't the best nachos nor the worst. The flavor was good enough but I didn't feel like much care was put into making the nachos. All of the goods were just centered in the middle. There were quite a few dry chips underneath. The guacamole and sour cream were just glopped on top - I should have know better and requested them on the side. So the top layer of chips were over loaded and kind of soggy. Not the end of the world, I just felt that they weren't made with love.I liked the red sauce, it was spicy, not a complaint just my observation, and the green sauce was pretty tasty and mild.All in all, I would give the place another try but for now I list them mediocre.
Ordered 5 quesabirria tacos with a small side of consomé. Tacos were small but packed with meat and cheese and the flavor was good. Would have liked them to be grilled a little more to make them crispier, so I did it myself when I got home and was very happy with the result. Consomé was just fine, I've had better and I've had worse. Decent salsa bar. I have a few notes, but it's the only food truck and best Mexican food on this side of 6th Ave, so I'll definitely be back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5