Rancho Bravo Taco

This week's edition finds us at Rancho Bravo Taco on 45th street in the U-District, in the Winchell's Donuts parking lot. There were several people ordering and waiting for their food when we showed up. It's hard to take that as a good sign as the place is located right in the U-district, down the street from a head shop and surrounded by stoned college students.

After staring at their menu for a few minutes, I decided to get a few tacos. I ordered a Chicken Mole, Al Pastor, and Carnitas taco. Of course we ordered a side of rice and beans. Again, I find myself dissapointed at the lack of Mexican Coke. SLF ordered a chicken tamale.

As you can see, that is in fact not a goddamn delicious chicken tamale. It is a quesadilla. They were out of tamales. The guy in front of us got the last one. I considered murdering him, but the parking lot was fairly well lit, and while I have been losing weight, I am still rather portly and not what one would call "fleet of foot." So I didn't. I had a bite of the quesidilla, and I thought it was very good. SLF liked it, but she wasn't really expecting it to be as much of a gut bomb as it ended up being. So, if you aren't that hungry and you just want a snack, don't order it. If you are stoned and hungry, order three.

While eating our food and had a pleasant conversation with the gentleman sitting across from us regarding this taco truck.

He has been frequenting this particular truck for 7 years or so. He has followed it to 3 or 4 different locations. He has only been able to get their tamales a few times, as they run out pretty quickly. Apparently they are amazing. Too bad I couldn't tell you.

The rice and beans were very good. As you can see, Baby enjoyed them. This is the first place so far that actually gave you the option of black beans rather than pinto. So far I've found that it's either or.




I really liked the tacos. They are bigger here than at other trucks we have been to. The mole taco was great, and so was the carnitas. The Al Pastor taco takes the cake. If you go to this truck, first I'd recommend the elusive tamale. If they are out, which they probably will be, get the Al Pastor. It was delicious. I would absolutely go to this truck again. I'd give it 8 golden roaches. Plus, their sign is bitchen.

El Camión

This is actually the 2nd stop on the Taco Trail. While dining at a Taco Bus a few weeks ago, The Special Lady Friend and I gave birth to the idea of a Taco Truck Blog. I won't mention what I had to give birth to after we ate.

Our second stop was a little Taco Wagon in the Home Depot Parking lot up on Aurora, El Camión, which translates to "The Truck."

The ambiance was very nice. There was some lovely traditional Mexican music playing which the SLF and I danced to while waiting for our food. There was also a fake lizard on a tree.

I ordered 3 tacos. Chorizo, Asada, and Pollo. SLF ordered a chicken tamale and a fish taco. An actual taco that is filled with fish. Not the vagina the smells like fish. And we split an order of rice and beans. Much to my delight, they had mexican coke on the menu. Much to my dismay, it was actually just Coca-cola from Mexico. Mucher to my dismay, they were out. But if anyone has the chance to drink some Coke from Mexico, drink it. It is much tastier than what gets served here in the states.

SLF was pretty impressed with her fish taco, as I usually am with her fish taco (the vagina kind). Since I don't eat fish, I didn't really care. But she was impressed that the fish itself was not breaded and deep fried as it is fairly often when on a taco.

My Tacos were pretty tasty. Not the best I've had, but probably the best for the price. The rice and beans were excellent.

If I were to recommend only one item from The Truck, it would absolutely hands down be the tamale. In the past, I have ordered tamales and I have been greatly dissapointed. It has all these things that I think I would love, but they also end up tasting like wet dough. But this tamale has brought me back. I loved it. I wanted more.


Overall, this place was great. I'd give it an 8 out of 10. There were clean places to sit and eat. The prices were very reasonable ($1.30/taco, $2.00 for a big tamale), the food was well above average. There were several other items on the menu I wanted to try. I will hopefully be back again soon.