Tacos La Mezcla, Taco Tuesday at Fall Brewery, North Park, San Diego, USA

It's Tuesday, I want a beer, I want food, and I don't want to drive.

Sounds like a perfect time to walk to my favorite new place, Fall Brewing Company.

Tonight, and I believe every Tuesday, the Tacos La Mezcla food truck is here serving up the goods.  Now, I'm generally not a big fan of food trucks as their food, even when awesome, is overpriced, which makes it not awesome.  This one though KILLS IT, as you will see.  Amazing flavors, reasonable price, super friendly people.  What else could you want?  Maybe their Yelp Site in Japanese?????  Take a peek.....

https://www.facebook.com/TacoslaMezcla

I'm in Tokyo, and the site auto translates for my location, and I'm super sure that there is a button somewhere to translate it back, but I can't find it, nor do I care too much.

Tacos La Mezcla

Love it

We ordered the Carnitas, Korean (of course), Fish, and they had a special of Chicken Barbacoa, and we also threw in some Potato Taquitos for good measure. 

Is your mouth watering yet?!?!?  Mine is cause I already know how great this is gonna be, and was!

Let's wash the wet mouth down with a beer while we wait, we are at a brewery....

Large, open space, plenty of beer making in the works.

This is Fall

http://fallbrewing.com/RiseAbove/

A super cool, very local place.  One of the only breweries where I've actually seen them making beer, EVERY time I've been here!  Never, let me repeat, never have I seen this happen at any other local brew house.  Seems like other spots have midnight elves, or they do it behind closed doors.  

Not Fall.  You can smell the hops boiling, see the tanks being worked, they are always making beer.  Nice.  I like.

HG likes it too. 

Ray likes it too.  Back to work dude, make more beer!

Yeah, kegs.  Lots-o-kegs.

A short couple of minutes, super fast, and our food arrives.

Yes, they are small, street taco size, but look a little closer at the following shots.  They are pilled HIGH with stuff and whatnot.  And, the ones served on corn tortillas, have two tortillas, easy to split, just sayin.

Potato Taquitos.  More on this later.

They also include your choice of salsa, mild or spicy.  This is the spicy.

Big flavor of peppers-garlic-onion-spices, and just the right amount of heat, for me at least.  When I want spicy I want it to linger, just a bit after I'm done eating, and then I want it gone.  This is perfect.  It looks like tomatillo but it doesn't have that flavor.  I mean, it's there, but it's predominating. 

Carnitas

The focal point on this one is the pork, and you know you're eating pork.  They don't try to mask it with sauces and other items.  Don't get me wrong, you taste the onion and cilantro, but most of the bite is pork and corn tortilla.  A squeeze of lime and perfection.

Korean Asada

A huge change in favor from the Carnitas.  This one is all about balance.  A concert of flavors and items.  There's a lot going on but it works really well.  Cabbage, slaw, meat, sauce,  flower tortilla, yummmmm.

Chicken Barbacoa

What I learned from this one is that EVERY taco is crafted different from the last.  Unlike so many other taco shops/trucks, where toppings and tortillas are the same, Tacos La Mezcla crafts every one completely different, all elements, every time.

Chicken, fetta, some sort of sauce.  Wonderful

Fish

Grilled, big citrus flavor, tomato relish (or something like that), fresh and bright flavors. 

OK, potato taquitos

Honestly, these are made with flower tortillas, so they are more similar to floutas, but let's not split hairs.

Perfectly fried, fantastic guacamole that has the best and brightest flavors and perfect texture, not to runny and not too tight.  It hangs on the taquito long enough to get it to your face.  

GET IT TO YOUR FACE!  

Cream sauce, slaw, de-rish!  

 

I want to be here every Tuesday.  I want these tacos, and I want these beers.

Taco, eat one

DVA