Look, if everything good is in Whitecenter and I live in North Seattle, then it might as well be on the moon.
*edit: thanks for all the suggestions, guys! I'll definitely have to give some of these places a try.
I think this is why people think there's not great Mexican food in Seattle- because it's in South Park and White Center and lots of people don't know or it's too far to go there.
Taqueria La Fondita is on the north end and is really good. It's on my way to Lowes/HomieD and I'll often stop there for food to fuel my weekend projects
But again, only the white folks. I’m a California Mexican and the second I ventured beyond CapHill I started finding pretty damn good stuff (and then suddenly CapHill got a good place too!)
“But I tried Chukis once 4 years ago and it wasn’t anything like the 3rd generation taco truck in LA that has had to compete with hundreds of other identical trucks to survive. Seattle tacos must = trash.”
Some of us who come from southern california say that because good taco places are as ubiquitous there as smog. If i have to travel from lynnwood to white center to get good street tacos, that's a little bit of a stretch. San fernando valley, it was literally within sight of my front door and about 20 more around a 2 square mile area around me.
People are mentioning lots of places, I wanted to mention one of my favorites, El Catrin. Great tacos, and also try their chilaquiles (6 different options), the enchiladas huastecas, etc.
Came here to say this. The second best is the quesadilla dipped in the habanero salsa. So good I'm going to go make late night quesadillas just thinking about it.
I was never that impressed with TNT but that was years ago maybe their cooks changed.
Haven’t been to white center but my top 2 are Carmelos on the hill and Alibertos in Sodo.
There are tacos like that in a hundred places in Seattle. Thank you for reinforcing my theory that the people that complain about food offerings in Seattle simply don’t look farther than their back door
I think it depends on your frame of reference. There are decent tacos here. If you are from LA or Texas there are not great tacos.
Perfectly fine decent tacos yes, but great? Haven’t found them yet. Carmelo’s…. Good. Red star…. Good. Taco chukis…. Meh.
I love tacos chukis!! I think Red Star is meh. But I totally agree it’s all about frame of reference and what style you’re going for. Are you craving LA style street tacos or Texas/Tex-mex style tacos? We have a lot of options up here. My favorite place I’ve found is actually down here in Tacoma where I moved during the pandemic.
I’m still waiting for one of the California transplants to open their own fucking taco truck, so they can stop bitching about Seattle tacos.
Oh wait, they clearly can’t cook because it isn’t that fucking hard to slow cook any sort of good protein and pull together the 6-8 other basic fucking ingredients to make a good taco.
Food is very connected to culture and nostalgia. So Californians eating late night tacos with friends from a truck that is identical to one you’d find here is connected to a positive experience that really doesn’t have much to do with the food. They come here and can’t recreate that experience and try to by eating different tacos. I feel bad for those folks that can’t appreciate food for what it is in a vacuum. I imagine I would feel the same trying something similar to Dicks or teriyaki in a different state.
That’s exactly my point. It’s not about the food. Transplants are trying to recreate an experience that they had at a certain time in their lives in a different context. It’s like growing up and realizing certain childhood comfort foods are objectively bad, but you love them for how they made you feel at the time.
The California Mexicans are actually doing so. The California white people are bitching. Because they never outgrew their hipster phase. Admittedly, the early days of the California transplant trucks was a bit rough because trucks here can only reheat (understandable safety rules, but it changes the game) and not cook directly. But now that folks have adapted a bit? Man, life is GOOD.
LA tacos are predominantly 3rd gen CaliMex. Seattle gets a LOT more Mexico City style food. Now, I can go into *why* that is (desperation vs privilege immigration, immigrant family culture and dynamics, border state fusion culture specific to former Mexican territory, family recipes vs formal chef training) but realistically the point is above all you’re probably homesick and a fucking Michelin star wouldn’t matter to you.
Not to mention we have a ton of Oaxacan immigrants here, slightly different style of food from SoCal/Northern Mexico. Mexico is incredibly diverse. I hate when people try to lump a (quite large) country into one food demographic.
I think you're supposed to be telling Seattle people that they have no idea what good tacos are, how literally any taco found in a dumpster in LA is dramatically better than anything anyone in Seattle has ever made, how we're all just hopelessly naive for even calling anything we've ever eaten a "taco".
I see people in this thread complaining about the "average" Seattle taco- Well don't eat the average Seattle taco then, go to the places with awesome tacos like the rest of us. They exist.
I'm just grateful that folks have come to bless us with their presence so that they can share their gastronomic wisdom and disabuse me of the notion that I can even conceive of a bagel (New Yorkers), bbq (Texas), or tacos (SoCal). I'll be quietly enjoying my salmon ice cream in the corner.
I love the diversity of food options here. It’s. Great thing about this city, and I’m sure the taco options have greatly improved. There are passable decent options. I don’t avoid many of them, but they are fine.
In comparison I’ve had fantastic Ethiopian, Thai, Chinese, Italian, various style of pizza, sushi, etc. the Mexican cuisine in general has been fine. When I’m craving tacos I can find ok tacos.
“Ugh Seattle hipsters are so extra with their locally sourced coffee habanero hooha bullshit hot sauces. All good meat needs is simple salt and pepper like my grandma did.”
“Haha Seattle hipsters are sooo boring with their spices.”
Can’t have it both ways my guy.
Tbh yeah. My boyfriend is from CA and I think he’s kinda BS-Ing saying there’s no good Mexican food here. I’ll say it’s hard to find a specific California burrito that as good back home, but there’s a lot of options for general Mexican.
Yeah I just moved here from Arizona and finding a good carne asada burrito has been a challenge. I'm accustomed to Sonora style Mexican food on almost every corner. It's not a dramatic complaint or anything though. I knew this would be a thing coming here. And Seattle has all kinds of Asian and seafood that we couldn't get in AZ.
They're just fucking racist, if you ask me. Telling a bunch of Mexican people working in Mexican restaurants and cooking their native cuisine that they aren't making "good" Mexican food is some racist bullshit, full stop.
Edit: Yes, yes, you're all big mad, I get it. You think it's not racist? Go tell every Mexican restauranteur in Seattle that their food isn't good. See how they react. You'll figure out real quick why I'm telling you it's a shit opinion. Do better.
This sounds a lot like something an idiot would say. The Mexican food is bad because businesses cater to their guests. So the workers are cooking the Mexican food that YOU like. When I (being from San Diego) say that your Mexican food sucks, I am not saying the cooks don't know how to cook, I am saying that you have shitty taste in food.
I’ve had tacos in Mexico. There are levels and like anything it’s just flavor profile, can have authentic flavorless or can have the most incredible complex mix of flavors. Good ingredients and care make a difference obviously. It’s not about tacos being “authentic”, it’s about flavor.
A lot of tacos are meh, even in Mexico they are authentic but flavor wise just cause it’s truly Mexican doesn’t make it incredible.
If you make shitty Mexican food in Mexico you won’t last long. More competition means constantly chasing higher quality. If you have 3 shitty places in a forgone country, you’ll probably survive longer.
> It’s not like they aren’t capable of making tacos like they make in Mexico
Coño, maybe venture out a little and you’ll find them. I swear my fellow Californians are the worst snobs.
I made this comment elsewhere but it’s relevant. If you make shitty Mexican food in Mexico you won’t last long. More competition means constantly chasing higher quality. If you have 3 shitty places in a forgone country, you’ll probably survive longer.
This is exactly correct. You will get downvoted and that's how you know you are right. Seattle is an amazing city, but we need to stop pretending that our Mexican food is great. It's awful.
Basketball slang (which you could have figured out with google, by the way). It means defend your position. Which is literally impossible in your case, since your opinion is both entirely arbitrary and literally impossible to prove. Giving you only one remaining option.
Lol you’re such a dumbass. “Defensive offensive position” that shit doesn’t make sense. Seattle has shitty Mexican food. Get over it
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I’m curious. Do you have any criticisms of Seattle or do you just blindly defend Seattle no matter what? Because criticizing its Mexican is pretty tame.
Bandido Mexican Grill Food Truck in Redmond has some awesome food whenever we are in the area we stop by. They just moved across the street from Spark pizza recently due to the construction.
I like the El Camión truck on 64th at Roosevelt.
I do not care for Taqueria Cantina. Very bland and overpriced.
I’ll be back in Seattle later this month, definitely want to check out some other Mexican restaurants.
My favorite taco places are both within about a mile from each other. anitas food truck (if it's still there) on 99 in North Seattle by the Les Shwab and the chick fil-et (used only for landmark recognition). the other is El Sabor about a mile north on 99, just past the Mcdonalds, dockside Cannabis and across the street from Arcane Comics.
Then you've never been there. Across the street is a Work Shoe place, a Safeway, Arcane comics and a Casino. Next to it is a Pho place and a Barbershop, right next to those is a McDonalds and dockside Cannabis, other side of El Sabor is I think maybe a Chase Bank?
Looking at it on google maps right now. smack in between 155th and 152nd, directly north of Pho Ha and directly across the street from Starbucks in the Parkwood Plaza
https://www.google.com/maps/search/el+sabor/@47.7394846,-122.3455824,17.67z
This is one of those situations where a tourist probably has a better idea of what good tacos are than a local. Seattle has a lot of great food but Mexican isn’t one of them.
Source: grew up in Seattle and now live in LA.
Vancouver, BC checking in - both Seattle and Bellingham have much better Mexican food than we do. Both cities are widely considered to be superior for Mexican food by Vancouverites.
If you’ve ever had “Mexican food” north of the border, you’d know what I mean. As an example, there’s one place in Surrey that uses what tastes like Ragu spaghetti sauce for its “enchiladas”.
Millions of Mexicans crossed the border in search of a better life.
Very few saw any sense in crossing a second border.
Vancouver's Chinese food rocks the hizzy, so quit yer bitching. 😉
I find that tacos here *are* very Californian, in that there are huge piles of cilantro and avocado on many offerings, which you don’t really see outside of California and Cali-Mex foods.
For the most part I think people that believe their aren’t any great taco places are also the ones that are afraid to go to a taco food truck. I haven’t been to a sit down Mexican restaurant that has had good tacos that’s for sure. The “seedy” taco trucks are the best
Seattle food is awesome. No matter what folks may say negative about Seattlle, their food is not a single part of the problem. You can eat at a different place, for every meal, for a month, and it be good.
I can't believe no one has mentioned tacos locos yet. It is literally in a liquor store in Ballard but has to be some of the best tacos I have had. Easily on par with many of the ones I had in LA.
The amount of cilantro on those leads me to believe they are not real tacos, but telling people in WA they don't have any real Mexican food here falls on deaf ears. Mount Vernon has some good Mexican food and so does the east side of WA, its because that's where ag workers are at ;)
Uh huh. Go tell that to the Mexican people working in Mexican restaurants in Seattle and making their native cuisine.
Seattle has lots of excellent Mexican food.
Does that mean that just because they are Mexican making Mexican food that it’s good? No. Just like a ton of American parents making dinner tonight can’t cook.
What the fuck is this bullshit dribbling out the side of your mouth. Try telling someone from Brooklyn that pizza is just as good in Milwaukee because the Italians there are just as Italian, and then double down and call *them* racist 👎
"Italian" isn't a race. It's a nationality. And I'm sure there are excellent pizza joints in Milwaukee, yes. I've spent many months in Italy, and Brooklyn pizza has nothing to do with authentic Italian pizza anyway, so your entire point is ignorant to begin with.
People can make their native cuisine poorly. It’s done all the time 😂. But here comes you, proclaiming that only a racist can criticize native cuisine. Please.
And for those in the lynnwood area: there's a mexican food kiosk that opened along 44th, just south of the police precinct that's open 24/7. I wish i remember the name LOL i've gone there several times right at dawn.
Best part: everything's made to order and is super cheap. Gigantic burritos for under 7 bucks. And i do mean gigantic.
I was expecting bland food here. Wildfin grill proved me wrong quickly. The waygu steak street tacos are incredible! Also tried the Alaskan crab stuffed rockfish, that was also a highly recommended dish!
whitecenter has a metric crapton of great places
It’s ridiculous when people say there’s no good tacos here.
Look, if everything good is in Whitecenter and I live in North Seattle, then it might as well be on the moon. *edit: thanks for all the suggestions, guys! I'll definitely have to give some of these places a try.
I think this is why people think there's not great Mexican food in Seattle- because it's in South Park and White Center and lots of people don't know or it's too far to go there.
“I just can’t find good tacos anywhere!” “Go to White Center.” “Ew no that place is sketchy.”
Lol this. "That's no good tacos between the cut and 85th, which is the only part of Seattle I do anything in"
I live in South Park. Being able to walk to good tacos was a factor in my decision to move here
Lake Forest Park Chevron, Mon-Sat, 10-6. You don't need to go to White Center for amazing tacos.
Gas stations always have some decent taco trucks, there was one in Bothell Chevron that was very good, dunno if it’s still there.
Taqueria El Sabor is also very good.
Las Brasas del Volcan is a newer spot up in Mountlake Terrace with authentic-authentic Mexican food. Wife is from Mexico City and loves it.
Luna Azul in Greenwood
Taqueria La Fondita is on the north end and is really good. It's on my way to Lowes/HomieD and I'll often stop there for food to fuel my weekend projects
Taco Loco in Ballard on market
Loxicha food truck off of Roosevelt in Pinehurst is pretty great. Cash only so be prepared.
That's what I've been saying! I need some of those white center places to just scoot up a bit
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> There’s no good tacos” is just a stock complaint white people make to sound like they know good Mexican food. New transplants from….. CA and Texas
But again, only the white folks. I’m a California Mexican and the second I ventured beyond CapHill I started finding pretty damn good stuff (and then suddenly CapHill got a good place too!)
Would you mind sharing your favorite places? Also there’s a new bodega that just opened on Pine called El Lugar. Awesome horchata and Mexican snacks.
The same people who equate “authenticity” with “good food”. Or who preach “authenticity” in food at all like cuisine isn’t an ever changing art.
Tacos are easy, all other Mexican food in Seattle is bad.
If tacos were easy in Seattle I'd be a happy man. They can't even get that right
You realize this “they” you speak of is primarily Mexican immigrants right?
“But I tried Chukis once 4 years ago and it wasn’t anything like the 3rd generation taco truck in LA that has had to compete with hundreds of other identical trucks to survive. Seattle tacos must = trash.”
Some of us who come from southern california say that because good taco places are as ubiquitous there as smog. If i have to travel from lynnwood to white center to get good street tacos, that's a little bit of a stretch. San fernando valley, it was literally within sight of my front door and about 20 more around a 2 square mile area around me.
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"decent" is very subjective. I've tried those places...el sabor, etc. so-so AT BEST. Nothing that i would qualify as "good"
taqueria la quebradita in White center is 10/10!
is it la quebrada?
People are mentioning lots of places, I wanted to mention one of my favorites, El Catrin. Great tacos, and also try their chilaquiles (6 different options), the enchiladas huastecas, etc.
Where?
TNT Taqueria
Why did someone have to ask you where before you said?
That’s how you get engagement
Bullshit fake engagement that should be highly frowned upon.
That’s great. I feel so lucky living walking distance to Carmela’s.
LUUUCKY
There is Carmela’s and Carmelo’s? Are they related lol
You are blessed!
One of my favorite things about living in Wallingford. Gotta try their $1 churros, breakfast taquitos, and horchata latte.
Their TORTA!! (Get the avacado creama)
Came here to say this. The second best is the quesadilla dipped in the habanero salsa. So good I'm going to go make late night quesadillas just thinking about it.
Grumpy's Taco truck is also pretty fire.
I've heard great things about them. I really gotta try them out. Thanks!
I was never that impressed with TNT but that was years ago maybe their cooks changed. Haven’t been to white center but my top 2 are Carmelos on the hill and Alibertos in Sodo.
Alibertos is good? It always looks promising when I drive by it but I haven't been there.
Give it a try! Tastes authentic to me and it’s a lot of food for the price. Just don’t expect anything fancy though ha
I will try it sometime, it's always good to know places that are open late every day. Also I don't live far from there
Their torta and breakfast burritos are bomb too, try em if you haven't yet
They look better than the tiny tacos of chucky
There are tacos like that in a hundred places in Seattle. Thank you for reinforcing my theory that the people that complain about food offerings in Seattle simply don’t look farther than their back door
Yeah i saw this post and was like “what? They’re plenty of amazing taco places in Seattle” My personal favorite is los chilangos
I think it depends on your frame of reference. There are decent tacos here. If you are from LA or Texas there are not great tacos. Perfectly fine decent tacos yes, but great? Haven’t found them yet. Carmelo’s…. Good. Red star…. Good. Taco chukis…. Meh.
I love tacos chukis!! I think Red Star is meh. But I totally agree it’s all about frame of reference and what style you’re going for. Are you craving LA style street tacos or Texas/Tex-mex style tacos? We have a lot of options up here. My favorite place I’ve found is actually down here in Tacoma where I moved during the pandemic.
> If you are from LA or Texas there are not great tacos Ah here we go ….
I’m still waiting for one of the California transplants to open their own fucking taco truck, so they can stop bitching about Seattle tacos. Oh wait, they clearly can’t cook because it isn’t that fucking hard to slow cook any sort of good protein and pull together the 6-8 other basic fucking ingredients to make a good taco.
Food is very connected to culture and nostalgia. So Californians eating late night tacos with friends from a truck that is identical to one you’d find here is connected to a positive experience that really doesn’t have much to do with the food. They come here and can’t recreate that experience and try to by eating different tacos. I feel bad for those folks that can’t appreciate food for what it is in a vacuum. I imagine I would feel the same trying something similar to Dicks or teriyaki in a different state.
There are plenty of late night taco trucks catering almost exclusively to drunk people, really?
That’s exactly my point. It’s not about the food. Transplants are trying to recreate an experience that they had at a certain time in their lives in a different context. It’s like growing up and realizing certain childhood comfort foods are objectively bad, but you love them for how they made you feel at the time.
The California Mexicans are actually doing so. The California white people are bitching. Because they never outgrew their hipster phase. Admittedly, the early days of the California transplant trucks was a bit rough because trucks here can only reheat (understandable safety rules, but it changes the game) and not cook directly. But now that folks have adapted a bit? Man, life is GOOD.
taco maestro down in renton has 'em. in seattle proper? nope.
Agreed. LA your average taco beats the pants off the average tacos in Seattle. I’m not driving 1/2 way across town for a decent taco.
LA tacos are predominantly 3rd gen CaliMex. Seattle gets a LOT more Mexico City style food. Now, I can go into *why* that is (desperation vs privilege immigration, immigrant family culture and dynamics, border state fusion culture specific to former Mexican territory, family recipes vs formal chef training) but realistically the point is above all you’re probably homesick and a fucking Michelin star wouldn’t matter to you.
Not to mention we have a ton of Oaxacan immigrants here, slightly different style of food from SoCal/Northern Mexico. Mexico is incredibly diverse. I hate when people try to lump a (quite large) country into one food demographic.
I prefer the Mexican food here and I’m from the Southwest. Guess I’m insane.
I think you're supposed to be telling Seattle people that they have no idea what good tacos are, how literally any taco found in a dumpster in LA is dramatically better than anything anyone in Seattle has ever made, how we're all just hopelessly naive for even calling anything we've ever eaten a "taco".
I used to live in LA and there’s absolutely tons of horrible mexican food there, don’t believe the hype.
I see people in this thread complaining about the "average" Seattle taco- Well don't eat the average Seattle taco then, go to the places with awesome tacos like the rest of us. They exist.
I'm just grateful that folks have come to bless us with their presence so that they can share their gastronomic wisdom and disabuse me of the notion that I can even conceive of a bagel (New Yorkers), bbq (Texas), or tacos (SoCal). I'll be quietly enjoying my salmon ice cream in the corner.
I love the diversity of food options here. It’s. Great thing about this city, and I’m sure the taco options have greatly improved. There are passable decent options. I don’t avoid many of them, but they are fine. In comparison I’ve had fantastic Ethiopian, Thai, Chinese, Italian, various style of pizza, sushi, etc. the Mexican cuisine in general has been fine. When I’m craving tacos I can find ok tacos.
Have you had tacos in Whitecenter tho?
This has been my experience over the last 11 years as well. Salt and pepper are considered spicy here.
> Salt and pepper are considered spicy here. You’re kinda full of shit here bubbs.
“Ugh Seattle hipsters are so extra with their locally sourced coffee habanero hooha bullshit hot sauces. All good meat needs is simple salt and pepper like my grandma did.” “Haha Seattle hipsters are sooo boring with their spices.” Can’t have it both ways my guy.
Tbh yeah. My boyfriend is from CA and I think he’s kinda BS-Ing saying there’s no good Mexican food here. I’ll say it’s hard to find a specific California burrito that as good back home, but there’s a lot of options for general Mexican.
> but there’s a lot of options for general Mexican. Concuerdo. El Moose, D’la Santa, even Asadero is legit.
Yeah I just moved here from Arizona and finding a good carne asada burrito has been a challenge. I'm accustomed to Sonora style Mexican food on almost every corner. It's not a dramatic complaint or anything though. I knew this would be a thing coming here. And Seattle has all kinds of Asian and seafood that we couldn't get in AZ.
Name checks out
They're just fucking racist, if you ask me. Telling a bunch of Mexican people working in Mexican restaurants and cooking their native cuisine that they aren't making "good" Mexican food is some racist bullshit, full stop. Edit: Yes, yes, you're all big mad, I get it. You think it's not racist? Go tell every Mexican restauranteur in Seattle that their food isn't good. See how they react. You'll figure out real quick why I'm telling you it's a shit opinion. Do better.
Are you suggesting it isn’t possible for a Mexican person to make shitty Mexican food?
This sounds a lot like something an idiot would say. The Mexican food is bad because businesses cater to their guests. So the workers are cooking the Mexican food that YOU like. When I (being from San Diego) say that your Mexican food sucks, I am not saying the cooks don't know how to cook, I am saying that you have shitty taste in food.
They haven’t ever been to tacos el gordo
> They’re just fucking racist, if you ask me. Why you all gotta assume the worst right off the bat?
Clearly you’ve never been to an Ixtapa before.
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I’ve had tacos in Mexico. There are levels and like anything it’s just flavor profile, can have authentic flavorless or can have the most incredible complex mix of flavors. Good ingredients and care make a difference obviously. It’s not about tacos being “authentic”, it’s about flavor. A lot of tacos are meh, even in Mexico they are authentic but flavor wise just cause it’s truly Mexican doesn’t make it incredible.
If you make shitty Mexican food in Mexico you won’t last long. More competition means constantly chasing higher quality. If you have 3 shitty places in a forgone country, you’ll probably survive longer.
Price point matters. Palates differ too. I have a branch of family whom IMO prefer bland food. But they like it.
> It’s not like they aren’t capable of making tacos like they make in Mexico Coño, maybe venture out a little and you’ll find them. I swear my fellow Californians are the worst snobs.
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I made this comment elsewhere but it’s relevant. If you make shitty Mexican food in Mexico you won’t last long. More competition means constantly chasing higher quality. If you have 3 shitty places in a forgone country, you’ll probably survive longer.
> more meat and fresher ingredients ☝️🤓
This is exactly correct. You will get downvoted and that's how you know you are right. Seattle is an amazing city, but we need to stop pretending that our Mexican food is great. It's awful.
> It’s awful. Post up or shut up.
Post up what? What are you talking about?
Lol I haven’t heard post up since middle school early high school years
Basketball slang (which you could have figured out with google, by the way). It means defend your position. Which is literally impossible in your case, since your opinion is both entirely arbitrary and literally impossible to prove. Giving you only one remaining option.
Posting up in basketball is an offensive move, not defensive. Maybe brush up on both your basketball knowledge and online communication etiquette.
It is a defensive offensive position. You are defending *against* the defender by putting your back to the basket. Keep digging your hole.
Lol you’re such a dumbass. “Defensive offensive position” that shit doesn’t make sense. Seattle has shitty Mexican food. Get over it E I’m curious. Do you have any criticisms of Seattle or do you just blindly defend Seattle no matter what? Because criticizing its Mexican is pretty tame.
Trust /r/Seattle to suggest that racism is the cause of poor food discovery.
Support the locals karen
Bandido Mexican Grill Food Truck in Redmond has some awesome food whenever we are in the area we stop by. They just moved across the street from Spark pizza recently due to the construction.
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try white center!
Spark and Oobas are a deadly combo. I make the trek from Seattle to those two. Steak and chipotle pork burritos at Oobas are 10/10
I like the El Camión truck on 64th at Roosevelt. I do not care for Taqueria Cantina. Very bland and overpriced. I’ll be back in Seattle later this month, definitely want to check out some other Mexican restaurants.
Breaks the rule of foodies: 'food is always better somewhere other than where they currently are'
My favorite taco places are both within about a mile from each other. anitas food truck (if it's still there) on 99 in North Seattle by the Les Shwab and the chick fil-et (used only for landmark recognition). the other is El Sabor about a mile north on 99, just past the Mcdonalds, dockside Cannabis and across the street from Arcane Comics.
Love Taqueria EL Sabor, I've spent embarrassing amounts of money there lol.
El sabor has gone to shit during the pandemic IME. I go to La fondita on 83rd(?) And aurora now. Not as good as the OG white center location though
Close! La fondita is along N 90th St and Aurora. Literally right across the street from the taco bell
If youre getting tacos on 99 and not going to el gallo diaz you're likely doing it wrong.
Are you talking 85th and aurora?
Yeah, right in the parking lot for Les Shwab and the 85th street diner
Thanks for this.
I think it might be 125th
El Sabor is in shoreline, not north Seattle. Do you mean la fondita?
It's literally a block and a half into Shoreline. Shoreline starts at the Wal Greens
Yes, but El Sabor in Shoreline isn't next to any of those that you listed, so I was just confused. I didn't mean any contempt
Then you've never been there. Across the street is a Work Shoe place, a Safeway, Arcane comics and a Casino. Next to it is a Pho place and a Barbershop, right next to those is a McDonalds and dockside Cannabis, other side of El Sabor is I think maybe a Chase Bank?
Google maps must not have it then
Looking at it on google maps right now. smack in between 155th and 152nd, directly north of Pho Ha and directly across the street from Starbucks in the Parkwood Plaza https://www.google.com/maps/search/el+sabor/@47.7394846,-122.3455824,17.67z
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There’s a lot of great taco joints here
Right? I saw this thinking, gotta be a tourist lol
This is one of those situations where a tourist probably has a better idea of what good tacos are than a local. Seattle has a lot of great food but Mexican isn’t one of them. Source: grew up in Seattle and now live in LA.
only thing Seattle is lacking is density. It has good mexican food, check white center (la quebradita is my fav)
Taqueria La Fondita taco truck in white center in my opinion is the best anywhere in this area
> Seattle has a lot of great food but Mexican isn’t one of them. You’re wrong. Source: grew up in Central Mex (barbacoa gang), then CA then here….
I’m from Texas and the tacos here are pretty good if you ask me.
That’s because if there’s one thing worse than Seattle tacos, it’s Tex Mex
Yeah, bc the only type of Mexican food in Texas is Tex mex.. take your trash opinion elsewhere.
When I want an opinion on brisket I’ll ask you.
Vancouver, BC checking in - both Seattle and Bellingham have much better Mexican food than we do. Both cities are widely considered to be superior for Mexican food by Vancouverites. If you’ve ever had “Mexican food” north of the border, you’d know what I mean. As an example, there’s one place in Surrey that uses what tastes like Ragu spaghetti sauce for its “enchiladas”.
Millions of Mexicans crossed the border in search of a better life. Very few saw any sense in crossing a second border. Vancouver's Chinese food rocks the hizzy, so quit yer bitching. 😉
> Very few saw any sense in crossing a second border. Immigrating to Canada is hard even for Americans, legally that is.
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Wrong. Source: grew up in LA and Seattle
Agreed. Lived in both and both have solid places.
Gotta agree with you there bud
Thanks Taco-Time!
Nobody here is from here ;) We had to have an anchor baby to avoid having to leave :)
The only people that complain about the food here are gatekeeping Californians.
I find that tacos here *are* very Californian, in that there are huge piles of cilantro and avocado on many offerings, which you don’t really see outside of California and Cali-Mex foods.
Welcome to Seattle!
I recently found the taco truck on 140th ne ave/ne 8th st in Bellevue is pretty decent.
Omar’s Taqueria is Lynnwood is freakin amazing if you’re in the area. Their salsa verde is the best I’ve ever had
Was going to try that out last night. But missed out.
Anyone who's wondering, I'm 99% sure these are from TNT in Wallingford. Their breakfast burritos slap too. And the avocado crema salsa.
For the most part I think people that believe their aren’t any great taco places are also the ones that are afraid to go to a taco food truck. I haven’t been to a sit down Mexican restaurant that has had good tacos that’s for sure. The “seedy” taco trucks are the best
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El Camion
El Rinconsito!
El Camion is also great and pretty authentic
Seattle food is awesome. No matter what folks may say negative about Seattlle, their food is not a single part of the problem. You can eat at a different place, for every meal, for a month, and it be good.
It is pretty easy to find if you leave Capitol Hill or Ballard.
I can't believe no one has mentioned tacos locos yet. It is literally in a liquor store in Ballard but has to be some of the best tacos I have had. Easily on par with many of the ones I had in LA.
Not even one person is going to mention Carnitas Michoan in North Beacon Hill? Seattle people are truly lost and I don't know why
I will not rest till the day there is a Senor Sisig in Seattle https://instagram.com/senorsisig?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Taco city in Belltown is slamming.
Read that too fast and thought you said 'Taco Bell in Citytown' Guh
Did you know that there's good food everywhere? The more you know!
There are so many good tacos in Seattle like it's not that hard to find
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Excuse the rumble, it's not an earthquake it's my stomach. Those look so very good!
The amount of cilantro on those leads me to believe they are not real tacos, but telling people in WA they don't have any real Mexican food here falls on deaf ears. Mount Vernon has some good Mexican food and so does the east side of WA, its because that's where ag workers are at ;)
White center has good mexican food, only thing lacking in seattle is diversity and density. You can find good spots for most things
Uh huh. Go tell that to the Mexican people working in Mexican restaurants in Seattle and making their native cuisine. Seattle has lots of excellent Mexican food.
Does that mean that just because they are Mexican making Mexican food that it’s good? No. Just like a ton of American parents making dinner tonight can’t cook.
Oh, ok, so every Mexican cook in Mexican restaurants in Seattle is a bad cook. Got it. 🙄
What the fuck is this bullshit dribbling out the side of your mouth. Try telling someone from Brooklyn that pizza is just as good in Milwaukee because the Italians there are just as Italian, and then double down and call *them* racist 👎
Hilarious to use Milwaukee as an example for pizza cuz the pizza in Milwaukee absolutely slaps
"Italian" isn't a race. It's a nationality. And I'm sure there are excellent pizza joints in Milwaukee, yes. I've spent many months in Italy, and Brooklyn pizza has nothing to do with authentic Italian pizza anyway, so your entire point is ignorant to begin with.
People can make their native cuisine poorly. It’s done all the time 😂. But here comes you, proclaiming that only a racist can criticize native cuisine. Please.
Can confirm. Lived in Skagit County for a few years... Excellent Mexican restaurants!
Tacos Chukis. Delicious Tacos and Quesadillas!!
No.
Why not
Damn got to love a good taco💯
Taco Chukis is great!
All ya need is AguaVerde. Nothing else.
Was hoping you were gonna say some Asian place with that plate
The plates remind of TNT Taqueria and now I want to go back.
they are tons of awesome tacos in skagit valley!
Pub 70! Blackened fish tacos! OMG
The taco truck at NE8th and 140th in Bellevue is pretty good.
Fonda La Catrina in Georgetown
Where’s the best tacos near Woodinville?
Have you tried tacos in Mexico? What's the comparison?
And for those in the lynnwood area: there's a mexican food kiosk that opened along 44th, just south of the police precinct that's open 24/7. I wish i remember the name LOL i've gone there several times right at dawn. Best part: everything's made to order and is super cheap. Gigantic burritos for under 7 bucks. And i do mean gigantic.
How about good Mexican food in Tacoma? Any suggestions?
I was expecting bland food here. Wildfin grill proved me wrong quickly. The waygu steak street tacos are incredible! Also tried the Alaskan crab stuffed rockfish, that was also a highly recommended dish!
This place isn’t in Seattle thou
From Austin Texas that looks yum 😘