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| - I recently went to Ta'Carbon with my neighbor who is a big fan. He pretty much knows were all the good taco joints are around the city, so I tend to trust him. :-)
I feel like I was in Mexico. At a taco bar. At a tasty, delicious taco bar! Props to the staff because they are smoothly bilingual.
Anyway, I digress. Basically you walk in, stand in a line that moves pretty quick, look at the menu and tell them what you want. You can have tacos, quesadillas, and platters. They have a salsa bar that has hot and mild salsa, pico de gallo, cilantro onion mix, fresh sliced cucumbers, shredded cabbage, marinated carrots, avocado cream, sliced limes, sour cream, jalapeƱos. Everything is well-stocked and made fresh.
On the menu, all the meat is cooked over a large charcoal grill with a big hood over it so it isn't too smoky. You can have pork or beef asada, al pastor, BBQ. For the more adventurous, they also grill up cheek, tongue, tripe, etc.
You give them your order and name. They give you your drinks- Mexican sodas or drinks like Horchata. Go up to the salsa bar and get your sides. Food came out pretty quick. Platters are the way to go. More meat than single tacos and those beans were tasty. There are some tables inside and there was a patio with misters. It stayed consistently busy. Lots of people picking up take out orders.
You pay at the end. It was a decent meal for about $6 for food and about $2 for the soda.
It's always a good sign when you go to a Mexican restaurant and a lot of Mexicans are eating there. I will be back.
You can pick up meat in catering trays - one or two lbs, to feed a crowd.
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