1/18/2010
Recently the New York Times‘ Gadgetwise blog wrote about Taco Loco, an iPhone app designed specifically to locate tacos in your immediate geographic area. It really is just a twist on Google Maps and this technology can be used for just about anything. When the Times blogged about it last week, I’d already had the app for a little while, since it’s geared toward California taco trucks, a staple of my diet on trips back to my homeland, but there is no reason we can’t start inputting spots locally.
I might as well add Cascabel Taqueria which opened late last year on the Upper East Side. A taco truck this is not, as four tacos a beer and tip ran me $25, but it is quite good. New York Magazine has taken note on the growing upscale taco trend (perhaps this year’s banh mi?), prefacing the article by saying “as any West Coast taco lunatic will tell you, New York’s Mexican food is not the city’s strongest culinary selling point,” which aptly describes my natural skepticism of Mexican food in the New York metro area.
The carnitas here is perfectly seasoned, spicy and tender. I urge you to check it out.
–CP
Where’s the upscale nachos?
Comment by Lee — January 17th, 2010 @ 6:46 pm