[a-dub]

more of a taco guy, but...

calexico, dos toros, oaxaca

the morelos empire: 2nd and a, north 6 and bedford, grand and graham (edit: they had/have a storefront in the east village, don't remember where now but near superiority burger i believe)

also there's supposedly some legit birria trucks about, but i have not tried them. and, i don't know if anyone closed due to the pandemic.

[ericbarrett]

Dos Toros burritos are not great (though to be fair you said tacos), I wish people would stop recommending it.

I spent years looking for a good Mission burrito in New York City, and never found it. Lots of good food, but every burrito was Tex-Mex or San Diego style or some such. Also, I never found a place with real al pastor; it was always grilled.

[a-dub]

oh you mean like one of those middle eastern style rotating meat machines with pineapple?

i think morelos had one of those. someone in new york does, i remember because that's when i got into al pastor.

[ericbarrett]

Exactly. Wish I’d found them!

[swivelmaster]

Good to see Dos Toros on the list, I know one of the founders. Used to play shows with his band in the Bay Area in the early 2000s!

[a-dub]

LOL

for the uninitiated: dos toros was started by the (bassist?) of third eye blind. it was modeled after the classic sf taqueria gordo. some of the shops have pictures of gordo on the wall.

what band did you play in?

[swivelmaster]

Hah! So the bassist was only a touring bassist for Third Eye Blind after the dissolution of his original band, the criminally underrated "The KGB," (not to be confused with the likely hundred other bands with the same name) which is how I knew him.

I played in a basically unknown Bay Area band called Red Lantern.