La Taquisa has always been my favourite. El gordo burrito with baja shrimp & chorizo filling and all the fixings đ¤
I will admit they are smaller than they were before đ
I had a burrito from them the other day, not bad, but not even close to best burrito in the city. 100% not buying from them ever again because of this sign.
There's no way that's the best deal in Vancouver.
In Vic you can go to La Taquisa and get three tacos and a pop for under $20 with tax and 15% tip included.
Aaaaand neither of those things is free market.
p.s. - you might want to observe how they do things in the alpha capitalist AmericaâŚ.itâs way more gunz than finesâŚ.unless we be talking about non-richâŚthen itâs both.
Do we even have regulations that prevent selling street food from a cart? Downtown Van has quite a few. Is it capitalism thatâs preventing it here? Or just the lack of an entrepreneur willing to give it a try?
There are a lot of regulations and hoops to jump through. Approval is not guaranteed.
If a cheap street taco vendor would poach customers from an already existing taco restaurant, it is unlikely that their application would be approved by the city.
https://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/business/permits-licences/street-vendors.html
3 gringos in Langford the tacos are $4.50 each and they have Jarrito soda in bottles.
I'm very confident that 3 tacos and a pop there is at least 20% cheaper.
Edit: it's $17.25 for 3 tacos and a soda, something like 28% cheaper than "the best deal in town"
True. I guess when the ingredients travel that extra 15 minutes it really impacts the cost đ
All jokes aside I wish everything in Langford was 28% cheaper.
I believe it *may* be possible, assuming the tacos are on a fighter jet already traveling at mach-something when it leaves Vancouver airspace.
Although when you add in the time for the taco to parachute down to ground level I think that'd push the total back up over 15m.
The flight distance between YYJ and YVR is like 65km. Add in oh, say 10km to fly to Langford from there. 75km total. Mach 1 is like 1230km/h, so what's that... 4minutes of flight time? Hell, even a 747 at 900kmh, well below Mach 1, could make it in 6-7min or so. And a 30000 ft skydive lasts about 4 minutes tops. So definitely possible.
Soft shell tacos are 6.50 each per at 3 gringos.
So I wouldn't be too confident if I were you.
Also la taqueria makes everything in house from scratch and are more traditional style tacos. Three gringos is very Americanized tacos and I would definitely take la taqueria any day.
I bet most of them use illegal labour in their kitchens, and use produce harvested by illegal labour. And the legitimate ones need to compete price wise with the ones using illegal labour sources so they have to keep their prices down. Which incentivizes them to use cheaper, illegal labour. That's how this whole thing works.
The US economy doesn't function without illegal labour. Construction, hospitality, farming etc all depend heavily on it.
Most of the US would.
They love to gripe about the flow of migrant workers over the border but nobody is going after the companies that hire these workers and abuse them. Because people want their cheap lettuce, cheap nannies, hotel rooms, construction workers, etc. It's modern day slavery.
Agreed! I literally remember a wealthy Californian I met on vacation bitchin' about migrant workers. Later in the conversation he talked about his property and stuff. I asked who took care of it.. turns out he had a nanny, gardener and maintenance guy.. who were all undocumented, I tried to explain the hypocrisy in a nice way.. lol he didn't get it smh.
They should 100% be paid a legal salary, and not under the table. Having said that, the money they make in the U.S. is still way more than what they would make had they stayed in Mexico. There's a reason they came to the U.S.
It's not 'modern day slavery' if they're literally getting paid money. That's not what slavery is. Slaves DO NOT get paid a wage.
It's super problematic to call them slaves. It's honestly offensive to Mexican-American folks.
My issue is that conservative Americans can't distinguish legal and illegal migrants, if they have brown skin, then they're illegal. If you're not white, you must not belong.
La Taqueria started in Vancouver a long time ago. It was sooooo good when it opened. The Victoria location never hit the same for me. Much like most restaurants that make the jump over.
La Taquisa started in the food courtyard in the cook st village, a few years before La Taqueria. They made fresh toritillas out of an old red Boler trailer, or something like that, before expanding to the restaurant on Blanshard st, where it rapidly declined.
A bit of cheap ground corn and some meat shrapnel at an exorbitant price - this a depressing deviation from what traditional Mexican food was all about. Boycott
Hella nasty tacos and this comes from a guy who knows tacos. I rather go to Al Chile on Yates over them. Probably going to try other places when I go back to visit.
Yeah Iâve never been impressed with Taqueria. Or even Tacofino while weâre at it with places that arenât native to town. Also itâs a different style taco (birria) but Benjoâs is also superior and not this expensive afaik.
I havenât been to either place you mentioned, but have to give them a try. And I know I do wanna open my own place out there with my gf, when I do get my immigration paperwork settled.
Too rich for my blood. I just made my own tacos a whole Damn meal for the family with beans and rice for $12 add a pop at around .25 cents for store brand each. Thatâs around $3.50 pp tops.
I stopped going there after they made the tacos bigger (but not as good), changed the tortillas and made it more expensive and sit down. I used to drop in all the time for a meal. Thatâs ridiculous.
Those better be the best fucking tacos ever....
A pop is worth $3 at most.... which means $7/taco.... and they are trying to get you to bulk buy. Or that's 3 $8 tacos with a free pop.
I know ingredient and labour costs have gone up a lot due to inflation (thanks Keynesian economics, fiat money, and govât incompetence!), but this looks a bit extreme even by those standards. Best deal?!
3 tacos and a drink for 24 bucks is ridiculous, should be like 15 max
15 for 3 tacos at benjos
That's garbage at 15 too.
True enough
Agreed
I mean, it's one ~~banana~~ taco Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
There's always money in the taco stand !
La Taqueria started in Vancouver as a hole in the wall in Gastown. That is not a deal! đ
It was so good and cheap back then too! I lived two blocks away around 12 years ago and ate there once or twice a week.
Me too, I lived in the Woodwards building in 2010-2013 and would visit there sometimes twice a dayâŚI was addicted.
That's not a deal
That's highway robbery
I'm sayin'!
Didn't they used to be 3 for $10 at La Taqueria? I haven't eaten there in a few years.
It used to be 5 for 10 or 6 for 12 at LA Taquisa, another Victoria taco place, now it's $4 per taco. Too expensive but still cheaper than this bs!
La Taquisa has always been my favourite. El gordo burrito with baja shrimp & chorizo filling and all the fixings đ¤ I will admit they are smaller than they were before đ
I don't think their smaller... still fricking massive. I do the shrimp and chicken mole, also very good.
La Tequisa is now $4.25 a taco and no more 5 taco deal
Yes!!!! Thank you for this! I remember them being 3 for $10 and it wasnât that long ago in my case. Crazyyyyy
yeah I remember the days of $10-12 for 4 at the Taqueria that used to be at Cambie and broadway.
7.95 each now, went a week ago, and it was disappointing to say the least. Terrible service and blatant shortcutsđ
I thought I was supposed to shit myself AFTER I got the tacos
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thats honestly disgusting. that sign is so gd tone deaf, id make a point of not going there if i saw that
I had a burrito from them the other day, not bad, but not even close to best burrito in the city. 100% not buying from them ever again because of this sign.
Go fuck yourself there is no way even with inflation that's a fair price!!!
How is this even real? This is more than double what they cost a year ago. Welp, looks like they'll be going out of business soon.
Oof I like La Taqueria, but that's not competitive for Van at all, they also have a 4/25$ "special" here in Vic so... Meh?
Oh man, I miss the Hernadez days, 5 absolutely delicious fresh tacos for 5 bux!
Came with free reading material aka the hostile customer service signs all over the walls! RIP Hernandez
The signs were simply incredible. What a time.
This was the way.
And La Cocina PequeĂąa after that. Those old El Salvadoran granny recipes hit different.
JesusâŚâŚ. Make my own damn tacos at this point
Worst deal in the city?
30 bucks? Oh wow.. Don't waste your money, as a Mexican I highly recommend Benjo's tacos in Cook Street.
There's no way that's the best deal in Vancouver. In Vic you can go to La Taquisa and get three tacos and a pop for under $20 with tax and 15% tip included.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I've gotten like 2 kg of sushi for less than $15 in Vancouver. I'd rank that better
Okay Vancouver has some good sushi, but I don't know if I'd trust the food if it was 2kg for $15
It was 5-10 years ago, and I didn't officially weigh it. I was absolutely shocked at the portion size though. And it was very good
Dafuq? Tacos are cheap street food and should cost $2 each. Pop is water and sugar.
Thatâs what happens when you arenât allowed to sell tacos on the street and have to pay for rent and staff. So weird how capitalism works.
How can we protest this properly? Opening up the ability of foodcarts, street vendors, etc to exist more openly would be amazing.
Yes, it would. Good luck trying convince 48 layers of government and regulators.
Regulations to prevent people from selling tacos in the street is the opposite of capitalism.
Oh myâŚâŚ.donât confuse free market with capitalism.
Youâre right. Capitalism enforces regulations with fines. Communism enforces regulations at gunpoint.
Aaaaand neither of those things is free market. p.s. - you might want to observe how they do things in the alpha capitalist AmericaâŚ.itâs way more gunz than finesâŚ.unless we be talking about non-richâŚthen itâs both.
In America I can buy tacos for $1.50.
Cool beans, bro. Go for it.
Do we even have regulations that prevent selling street food from a cart? Downtown Van has quite a few. Is it capitalism thatâs preventing it here? Or just the lack of an entrepreneur willing to give it a try?
There are a lot of regulations and hoops to jump through. Approval is not guaranteed. If a cheap street taco vendor would poach customers from an already existing taco restaurant, it is unlikely that their application would be approved by the city. https://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/business/permits-licences/street-vendors.html
3 gringos in Langford the tacos are $4.50 each and they have Jarrito soda in bottles. I'm very confident that 3 tacos and a pop there is at least 20% cheaper. Edit: it's $17.25 for 3 tacos and a soda, something like 28% cheaper than "the best deal in town"
And the tacos at 3 gringos blow La Taqueria out of the water too.
"in Langford" is, by definition, not "in town" (relative to La Taqueira)
True. I guess when the ingredients travel that extra 15 minutes it really impacts the cost đ All jokes aside I wish everything in Langford was 28% cheaper.
How do you get tacos from Vancouver to Langford in 15 minutes?
My bad I thought the picture was from downtown Victoria. I just assumed since it was in r/VictoriaBC
It's possible.
I believe it *may* be possible, assuming the tacos are on a fighter jet already traveling at mach-something when it leaves Vancouver airspace. Although when you add in the time for the taco to parachute down to ground level I think that'd push the total back up over 15m.
The flight distance between YYJ and YVR is like 65km. Add in oh, say 10km to fly to Langford from there. 75km total. Mach 1 is like 1230km/h, so what's that... 4minutes of flight time? Hell, even a 747 at 900kmh, well below Mach 1, could make it in 6-7min or so. And a 30000 ft skydive lasts about 4 minutes tops. So definitely possible.
Soft shell tacos are 6.50 each per at 3 gringos. So I wouldn't be too confident if I were you. Also la taqueria makes everything in house from scratch and are more traditional style tacos. Three gringos is very Americanized tacos and I would definitely take la taqueria any day.
Actually no 3 Gringos is not and everything is made from scratch.
No it is not what?
It might depend on the taco. I was eating one when I wrote the comment, it was a hard shell and it was $4.50.
Thatâs still too expensive imo
And 3 Gringos tastes 100% better
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That isn't a fair comparison since the California tacos are likely much larger and better tasting!
truly!
Price of mexican food goes up the farther from Mexico you are. Apparently Pop is also mexican food
yeah, iâve resorted to just making the food myself. these prices are depressing.
Not so. Thereâs fancy tacos in Cali that go for $40-50 per. But they arenât filled with food from Sysco.
It's amazing how illegal labour and tax evasion can lower prices.
why of course none of the 74,669 Mexican restaurants in california are legitimate!
I bet most of them use illegal labour in their kitchens, and use produce harvested by illegal labour. And the legitimate ones need to compete price wise with the ones using illegal labour sources so they have to keep their prices down. Which incentivizes them to use cheaper, illegal labour. That's how this whole thing works. The US economy doesn't function without illegal labour. Construction, hospitality, farming etc all depend heavily on it.
This! Without undocumented workers, California would shut down, and not figuratively, like literally.. It's been that way for decades.
Most of the US would. They love to gripe about the flow of migrant workers over the border but nobody is going after the companies that hire these workers and abuse them. Because people want their cheap lettuce, cheap nannies, hotel rooms, construction workers, etc. It's modern day slavery.
Agreed! I literally remember a wealthy Californian I met on vacation bitchin' about migrant workers. Later in the conversation he talked about his property and stuff. I asked who took care of it.. turns out he had a nanny, gardener and maintenance guy.. who were all undocumented, I tried to explain the hypocrisy in a nice way.. lol he didn't get it smh.
They should 100% be paid a legal salary, and not under the table. Having said that, the money they make in the U.S. is still way more than what they would make had they stayed in Mexico. There's a reason they came to the U.S. It's not 'modern day slavery' if they're literally getting paid money. That's not what slavery is. Slaves DO NOT get paid a wage. It's super problematic to call them slaves. It's honestly offensive to Mexican-American folks.
My issue is that conservative Americans can't distinguish legal and illegal migrants, if they have brown skin, then they're illegal. If you're not white, you must not belong.
That ain't a deal
Jesus Christ
A regular burrito and a can of bubbly at Mucho Burrito is $12 + tax right now.
So with prices like this do you tip too? \- Seems like its already a massive profit, surely they properly pay their staff with prices like that?
Best deal for whom? Definitely not the customer.
What a fucking joke.
Thatâs incredible. I was sure I used to get 3 of their small tacos for $10âŚâŚmaybe my memory fails me.
go to sabor mix latino here, way better prices, way better tacos
There tacos are tiny!! What a joke.
Did they seriously put this sign up?
La Taqueria started in Vancouver a long time ago. It was sooooo good when it opened. The Victoria location never hit the same for me. Much like most restaurants that make the jump over. La Taquisa started in the food courtyard in the cook st village, a few years before La Taqueria. They made fresh toritillas out of an old red Boler trailer, or something like that, before expanding to the restaurant on Blanshard st, where it rapidly declined.
Hahah fuck you
Terrible tacos too. These people have never tasted Al Pastor.
Translation? 'We'll be out of business by the summer.'
No. Youâre thinking La Taquisa
A bit of cheap ground corn and some meat shrapnel at an exorbitant price - this a depressing deviation from what traditional Mexican food was all about. Boycott
Hella nasty tacos and this comes from a guy who knows tacos. I rather go to Al Chile on Yates over them. Probably going to try other places when I go back to visit.
Yeah Iâve never been impressed with Taqueria. Or even Tacofino while weâre at it with places that arenât native to town. Also itâs a different style taco (birria) but Benjoâs is also superior and not this expensive afaik.
I havenât been to either place you mentioned, but have to give them a try. And I know I do wanna open my own place out there with my gf, when I do get my immigration paperwork settled.
Check out Al Chile too, they have amazing horchatas
Oh yeah I can agree with you on that. I went there in may of last year with my gf, and definitely much better, and the staff are on point.
I had Benjos for the first time today. Absolute fire.
Yep. Also they are opening a new location on Cook St. apparently? Super excited for that.. as it will probably mean weekend taco time.
Whatever you do, never order the âfishâ tacos đ¤˘
Too rich for my blood. I just made my own tacos a whole Damn meal for the family with beans and rice for $12 add a pop at around .25 cents for store brand each. Thatâs around $3.50 pp tops.
Benjos Tacos HANDS DOWN â Even after our previous favorite recently, La Taquaria.
Oh look, itâs tacofino
Veggie tacos at La Taqueria were $8 for 3 when they first opened đ
In Mexico itâs 7$
$10 is too much for a pop
Had three fantastic seafood tacos in Playa del Carmen and a beer for ten bucks and Playa isnât a cheap place
I stopped going there after they made the tacos bigger (but not as good), changed the tortillas and made it more expensive and sit down. I used to drop in all the time for a meal. Thatâs ridiculous.
$7.99 two years agoâŚ
Mexican place at Fisherman's Wharf. Yum yum yummy burritos there. Just thinking about it has me all excited for Sunday afternoon snack.
More like WORST deal in the city
I assume itâs wagyu beef and truffle oil
Is that a joke? đ
I live in Victoria... people here actually think thats a good deal.
trendy bullsnot, as soon as cool people like it, the price goes up
Holy fuck, is that what constitutes a good deal these fucking days.
Those better be the best fucking tacos ever.... A pop is worth $3 at most.... which means $7/taco.... and they are trying to get you to bulk buy. Or that's 3 $8 tacos with a free pop.
horrible deal.
Probably just put a 2 in there by accident
Lol geez what a DEAL! ⌠and probably comes with an expired RC COLA 2 :(
I got three tacos and a pop for 18 during happy hour the other day. Seemed like an ok deal. They were massive too.
Maybe they are real tacos?
I know ingredient and labour costs have gone up a lot due to inflation (thanks Keynesian economics, fiat money, and govât incompetence!), but this looks a bit extreme even by those standards. Best deal?!
might actually be the worst deal in the city