In a borough that's not particularly know for it, Hell's Kitchen hosts a pocket of good and cheap Manhattan Mexican food. Bodegas with back-room kitchens serving respectable tacos and dot 10th Avenue and tiny take-out joints shuttle burritos to the doors of many.
Guelaguetza, on 47th Street, is a fine emblem.
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It's hard to miss taqueria
Piaxtla es Mexico once you turn onto 51st Street off of 5th Avenue in Sunset Park. There's the vertical sign attached to the facade, glowing
"Ricos Tacos" in fluorescent pink; there's a painted mural with a fat pig in a steel cauldron, proclaiming "Ricas Carnitas" across the wall. There's also a man marching the block, advertising both sentiments into a bullhorn.
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You could say we've been on a taco binge here at Serious Eats. After biking through Brooklyn and Queens last Sunday eating tacos along the way (wait for the video coming next week), I decided that Monday should be devoted to East Harlem, another hotbed of Mexican tortilla-wrapping activity (and yes, we'll be getting out of New York for Project Taco. West Coast, Midwest, South, get your tacos ready!) Check out the best tacos in the 'hood.
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Photo: Sara Markel-Gonzalez I've been excited about this brand new taqueria in Elmhurst ever since the awning went up, and once I saw the sign advertising tacos placeros, I knew it had to be my next Taco Thursday stop....
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Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park is a solid twenty blocks of excellent Mexican offerings, from markets stocking all of your chile and tortilla needs to bakeries filled with some of the most elaborately decorated cakes you've ever seen. It's...
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[Photos: Nikki Goldstein] When Carey gushed about Cascabel on the Upper East Side a few months ago, I put it at the top of my list of places to check out. I've been a steady fan ever since—in fact,...
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Chorizo tacos. [Photos: Robyn Lee] We don't often take restaurants up on offers of delivery. But frankly, we were so stunned that any Mexican restaurant would solicit our review—given our recent track record for reviewing restaurant taco lunches—that we...
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Usually when I think taco, I think taco and beans, or taco and beer, not taco and boutique. Salsa stains seem like a potential issue for La Lucha, a multi-tasking taqueria opening at 147 Avenue A (between 9th and 10th...
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It's the largest tequila-consuming day of the year. There's probably a statistic somewhere about a lot of tacos today too. Find out where to get the serious ones.
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Photograph from ext212 on Flickr I’ve been known to eat tacos standing up at one of the numerous trucks and carts that line Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, but my go-to spot for Mexican food in Queens is Taqueria...
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