We were shopping and sight seeing in the Historic Center which gave us an opportunity to eat at Los Cocuyos, a well known tacqueria that Chef Val at Californios recommended to us when we last ate at Californios a few weeks ago (I think Anthony Bourdain also recommended it).
You can but the tacos directly from the street or you can sit in the adjacent dining room and have basic table service. We got there about 12:30 and the place was mostly empty, mostly just us gringos eating this early, although by the time we left, it was beginning to fill up.
You can see from the first couple pictures, all the meat is cooked together in what is affectionately known as a “meat jacuzzi”. Sounds appetizing…and think about that next time you are the meat in a spa, lol.
Andrea wasn’t really hungry (and we have dinner tonight) so she just had one taco – al pastor. I wanted to try a few so I went with a few to start – saudero (brisket), cabeza (head), campechanos (brisket and sausage), maciza (loin), and lengua (tongue). They all came out at once so I could only really tell apart the campechano (because of the redness from the sausage) and the visual texture of the lengua. All were quite delicious. One was nicely rich with fat, so I wish I knew eactly which one that was. I was still interested in trying a bit more, but I really only had room for one more taco so I went with the tripe. in some ways, this was the best one because they had fried the tripe so it was still quite hot and the crispiness added a nice textural component and it was oh so delicious (definitely the best tripe I’ve had!). I wanted to try some sesos (brains) and possibly ojo (eyes), but I was way too full already. Perhaps next time…
Everything was plenty good enough, but I suspect with so many street taco places around there are likely some better, but since we didn’t know which ones offhand, this was certainly a solid starting point.
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