The extensive menu offers the expected tacos, huaraches, etc as well as some regional specialties, like cemitas, the irresistable sandwiches from Puebla - I wonder if they serve them with pápalo [update: yes]? I didn't see tacos Árabes, another Pueblan specialty, on the menu, but you never know. They'll have to wait; I've been looking for tacos to compare with the best I've had in other cities since I arrived in Poughkeepsie, and I found them at Taco Gol. The al pastor's pretty good (you need a trompo for that necessary char), but the carnitas is excellent- lush and porky where other taquerias' offerings have been dry and bland. They were sold out of chorizo and cabeza, so I ordered a goat barbacoa to round it out; it's a sleeper - not too gamey and seasoned well. All are topped with onions and cilantro and come with red and green salsa. The green salsa's a cilantro bomb that can easily serve as a green chutney in any Indian restaurant. If it had less salt, I'd shoot it like fernet after three of those carnitas tacos. Finally, the tortillas are made to order from a big lump of masa by the nice abuela running the kitchen.
I'm definitely going back to check out the rest of the menu, but it'll take a while to burn through it. The tacos are too good to pass up.
Edit: So good, I went back for lunch and ordered the carne enchilada cemita, a glorious construct of egg, Oaxacan quesillo, avocado, bits of spicy, charred pork and the mysterious pápalo on the perfectly toasted sesame-seed roll that gives the sandwich its name. Deliriously good - pork fiends will house this thing.
Everything I've tried has been made to order - even the tortilla chips were still shiny out of the fryer. The attention to quality and effort spent delivering it is obvious in the food. Made with love. Five stars! read more