This truck - Juquila - was our 2nd stop on our Midnight Madness Taco Tour (that kinda rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn't it?). We sped right by - on a taco mission! - because from the streetside, they looked like a parked and dark truck - with no lettering on it at all!
Thanks to our prior Yelp researching however, we were armed with info - and then surprised that we were the only ones there. It WAS 1am, okay, but I was expecting at least a FEW others on a Saturday night!
We ordered 6 tacos - cabeza, lengua, asada, pastor, carnitas - we tried 'em all! They came up fast, wrapped tightly to go, and got some extra salsas too. They were set up for fast and organized service, and were super friendly.
The tacos were a little smaller than Ruben's, our first stop. But everything was SO nicely plated, with the tacos surrounding a generous pile of radishes and lime slices - and there was a smidge of guac on each taco, along with smoky red chipotle salsa and cilantro and onions.
The meat was all seasoned well, but the saltiness was what lingered after I swallowed (hey now, STILL talking about TACOS here!) so I feel like they coulda held back a little. On the other hand, bf thought the saltiness was balanced - and his fave of the evening's taco tasting was the *al pastor* here - which means that it even won out over Ruben's impressive looking spit-roasted al pastor!
I unfortunately wasn't overly impressed with any of the meats - even my beloved lengua :(. I found the carnitas to be a little too chewy and stringy, and the al pastor was tasty but not as tender as Ruben's. It felt like the meat here wasn't as high of a quality as others have experienced, the beef was almost like ground beef.
But the friendly service, the smidge of guac on the tacos, the fact that bf LOVED their al pastor, and the super low $1-per-taco prices convinces me that we'll be back, so I can give them another chance to wow me! read more