Archive for February, 2007

17
Feb

Taco Stand- Fletcher and Larga- Atwater Village

By paul 4 Comments
Categories: food and tacos

Holy Crap Balls, Batman. This spot is off the hook.

On Fletcher Avenue just North of the 5 Freeway is a neighborhood called Atwater Village. It’s a quaint place- a small town yown on the border of a big city. A pivotal scene from Pulp Fiction was filmed one block up from this joint- (when Butch runs over Marsellus Wallace).

I’ve driven by this taco stand on my way home for over a year now- and I’ve seen this joint appear in the last 6 months. El Taco Vapor used to occupy this place, but I haven’t seen them for awhile.

I called up Anthony, and decided we had to hit this joint up. Check out the Pastor Spit below.

It was a cold night, but the chefs were in good spirits. We ordered the tri-fecta of pastor, which was clearly visible roasting from the road, carnitas, and carne asada.

And my God- the pastor knocked my socks off. It was succulent, only a tad sweet and had a spicy bang. The carnitas were amazing- rivaling Taco Zone in their crispness and sabor. The asada was decent- not too amazing, but by no means as flavorless as some other carts. This might be testament to the fact that they were chilling in a tin for a bit.
In addition the stand provides sweet grilled onions and a home-made guacamole salsa free of charge. I’m not talking dinky onions either- check the picture- these suckas were large!

No horchata, but thats usually the case with stands. Regardless, bomb ass carnitas always set my heart at ease. And best of all, I can walk to this joint from my apartment- so long arteries.

Summary

Overall: A-
Taco Grade: A
Horchata: N/A
Salsa Roja: HOT
Extras: Guacamole Salsa
Price: $1

Positives: EXCELLENT PASTOR AND CARNITAS. Asada was decent. Free grilled sweet onions. Excellent price, jolly service.

Negatives: No Horchata. Only open until 11 pm on Weekdays, 12am on Weekends.

07
Feb

El Ranchito

By RichardJames 0 Comments
Categories: food and tacos

I Stumbled upon El Ranchito after a night of cheap drinking and mediocre food at Native in Arcadia. After a pit stop and another pitcher of beer @ The Game we decided to find a taco truck off of Mission. Due to the lack of reliable naivgation we ended @ El Ranchito after passing up an unnamed and closed Taco Truck. Unforgivable, cuz mother fuckers were drunk and ready to hit up any open taco truck.

El Ranchito

So anyways we stop @ El Ranchito and order some tacos. Robin and WTF Charles order some carne asada tacos. I order some el pastor tacos and some carne asada tacos con nada cuz my women can’t handle the onions, cilantro and salsa. Yah, so what, not everybody likes their taco truck tacos fully loaded. Sometimes people want to just taste the meat you know?!

I can’t memmber too much details cuz the five pitchers of beer between the three of us were catching up, but I swear to god eh the tacos kept coming and they were damned good. The tacos were served with salsa, a wedge of limon and sliced radishes. The meat had a good amount of crispiness on the outside with a good chew and flavor on the inside. The grease level for the el pastor was minimal without the loss of flavor.
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Robin had a biased opinion because of his love for Taki Taco, but WTF Charles and I thought El Ranchito was good as fuck. We kept wondering where mother fuckers were coming from to eat @ El Ranchito cuz when we rolled up the truck seemed like it was in the middle of nowhere and there was only one dude eating. After we ordered our tacos a handful of people showed up. There were two esses that rolled up and BYOB’d some Heinekens which I thought was a good idea.

El Ranchito
Near N. Eastern & Huntington Dr., 90032. In front of the AutoZone.

Taco Grade: A
Salsa Grade: n/a
Horchata: n/a
Price: $1.00