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Choza Taqueria

One of the first nice days out in a while, Anthony and I got some tacos and a burrito bowl from Choza Taqueria and sat in Madison Square Park. I want to say Choza is like a smaller Chipotle. Similar prices, but taste is more simple and fresh. I think getting the burrito bowl is the way to go. I think you get a lot more food in that bowl than the three tacos. I was stuffed.

I like how they have Cholula brand hot sauce packets. Every place should have hot sauce packets, but not like Taco Bell packets.

It was a beautiful lunch day in the park. I made eye contact with a really hot girl from afar while eating my burrito bowl. She ended up sitting right behind us on the statue steps. Her legs were pretty much in my Horchata …which was very cinnamon-y. I didn’t know what to do, so I talked loudly to Anthony about Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville Bar & Grill in Orlando. I said they should serve a buffet in there. I wish she laughed.

Choza Taqueria – 66 Madison Ave (btwn 27th & 28th St) New York, NY 10016

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mexican street taco

Tacos Morelos Food Cart

Dang. Good taco cart in the East Village across from Bar 2A. Went to two birthday parties there this week. A good opportunity to get a taco.

The cook told me the Barbacoa goat taco was the one to get. I liked it. $2.50. Tender shredded meat. Juices dripping all over my fingers.

Also tried a Tlacoyas. Never heard of this before. Looks like a vegetarian Huarache with beans, sour cream, onions and red & green spicy sauce $2.50. Not bad. I think some of that Barbacoa on it would make it even better. But maybe that makes it a Huarache?

Tacos Morelos cart – Northwest corner of E 2nd St and Ave A. New York City

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mexican taco

Pork Torta from the 6th Ave 28th St Taco Cart

The weather’s been nuts lately, but there’s street vendor still out cooking it up. I got a pork torta sandwich from the lil taco cart man on 6th Ave between 28th & 29th St. I watched him grill up my pork, mayo the bread, scooped fresh avacado, etc. Another man tugged his food cart by and stopped to chat with the lil taco man. The guy looked drunk or homeless. He asked, “Mucho dinero?” The taco man responded, “Mucho frio!” Yeah it was mucho frio.

The pork was cripsy and tasted like a cross between bacon, Scrapple and maybe chicken? It was good greasy mess for $5. My office chair has never seen so much pork.

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Haab Mexican Restaurant – Williamsburg

I got a text from Catharine: “Have you eaten at haab on Leonard and Grand? Best Mexican I’ve had in Brooklyn, for sure.”  I didn’t know about this place in my hood. I trust Catherine’s opinion on food. Time to check it out.

It’s their 2nd Haab restaurant (first one’s in Woodside). Colorful Jarritos soda bottles lining the wall. Something like 15 specials for the day (which doesn’t sound like a wise thing). I went with the Haab Burrito on the menu (chicken, pork, beef, guacamole, sour cream, rice, beans, pico de gallo, lettuce and oaxaca cheese $8.50). It was really tasty and flavorful. I usually feel like I always have to put some kind of sauce on a burrito because they are usually bland, but this one didn’t need anything. It already had flavor built-in. The oaxaca cheese strung like fresh Pizza Hut pizza I remember back in the day. I was very surprised with this burrito. I think this might be one of the best burritos I’ve ever had. I ate every single bite and wobbled out of there.

The salsa that came with the complimentary chips was nice. They also had three bottles of sauce on the table. None of them were good on the chips, but the Salsa Diablo had a beautiful sheen on it and worked lovely on the rice and tortilla .

Tacos for me next time. Between $2.50-3. Seems like good pricing for this quality and flavor.

Haab – 202 Leonard St (Grand St & Maujer) Brooklyn, NY 11206

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Taco Cart on 6th Ave Btwn 29th & 28th St

Had my first taste of this taco cart last week. One Pork (carnitas) Taco $2.50. One Pork Gordita ($3). Tiny cook standing on a block. Nothing else much to say, except really solid.

East Side of 6th Ave (between W 29th & 28th St) NYC 10001

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Yola’s Beef Tongue Texan Nachos

I think we had too many Miller Lites with the new Vortex Bottle at Sam Jayne’s show. It’s dangerous because the beer funnels out faster. We stumbled our way to Yola’s Cafe into the newly expanded side of the Mexican restaurant. I opened the menu and picked the grossest sounding dish right in the middle of the page —Beef Tongue Texan Nachos.

The chips were stale, but the big chunks of beef tongue were some of the best I’ve ever had. Very tender and the fibrous muscle peeled apart from itself so easily. It was almost like slow-cooked pulled pork. There was a lot of food and a lot of tongue there. I could only eat about a third before I got sick of it. Rusty had gone back to Good Co. bar to get his windbreaker jacket. When he got back, he forgot what I ordered. I knew I had to get food inside him like Hasselhoff, so I kept my mouth shut and told him it was just beef. I can’t tell if that makes me a good or bad friend.

Yola’s Cafe – 524 Metropolitan Ave (btwn Lorimer & Union Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11211
…The tacos are solid if you don’t want to chance it.

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Meeting Ramen & Friend’s Baby Cormac

We went out to see Ramen & Friends Yoshie & Rob’s new baby Cormac. He’s a little one. He sure likes to watch TV. Apparently he likes True Blood and White Chicks. I can’t wait until we food blog with him.

Sam, Laura and I stopped for tacos on the way out at California Taqueria. The sign says it’s been open for 20 years (since 1990). I keep thinking we’re still in the 90’s. Shit, I’m old. I got what I expected in the combination platter …a pile of slop. Sam noticed it weighed about half of baby Cormac. The food needs a lot of hot sauce to make it taste good. Luckily they have several kinds. Also Sam got to try his first TAB soda. TAB? We sure it still ain’t the 90’s?

I then ran over to Brooklyn Bowl to catch my friends Brendan and Jackson of the Playboys of the Western World, covering a bunch of yacht rock songs (Michael McDonald, Toto, Christopher Cross). I blown away. They’re twins, but one is playing leftie and the other rightie guitar. Then they’d rip the same identical Steely Dan lick. It was like there was a trippy mirror between them. Interestingly, I came back to Brooklyn Bowl the next night to see my friends in Class Actress. Sexy. And Chairlift played later, who have that iPod commercial. They were good, but outside of that one iPod song, they reminded me of Avatar.

Original California Taqueria – 187 Court St (btwn Congress St & Wyckoff St) Brooklyn, NY 11201

Jason Lam meets Baby Cormac

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chinese mexican

Fresco Tortilla Grill – Chinese Tex-Mex

Sam and I went to try the very first Fresco Tortilla …the first of the Chinese Tex-Mex fast food take-out joints. Their special combination platters at $5.79 plus tax is only 10cents more than the Super Taco Express I had a week earlier and comes with a free soda! I chose root beer. I also paid for a side of jalapeño peppers which helped spice up the iffy food. I don’t think the tortillas were as mind blowing as the Super Taco Express, but it was cool watching them use the tortilla machine. I was excited. Had a mouth boner.

Sam’s Shrimp Quesadilla looked really disappointing.

Fresco Tortilla – 36 Lexington Ave (btwn 23rd & 24th St) New York 10010