The Original Taco Bell Tacos - MEXICAN STREET FOOD Tour in Los Angeles, California!

2018-09-12 13:00:01

by Mark Wiens

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Along with Jeffrey and Austin two food extreme friends we set off on a day of Mexican food and fun feasting in greater LA Gilberto s Taquiza For the first stop on this Mexican street food tour we drove all the way to West Covina California about 45 minutes from Central Los Angeles to a little spot known as Gilberto s Taquiza Jeffrey made sure to call Gilberto himself to reserve some of the meat dripping dynamite sticks to make sure we had some The dynamite sticks are essentially stewed lamb cooked until fall apart tender and dripping with oil In order to make them he dunked a tortilla into the hot oil sizzled it on the hot plate filled it with the fall apart tender meat and rolled it up into a taquito The result was spectacular Everything else was delicious too but the dynamite sticks were crazily good Total price 35 for everythingBirrieria Guadalajara Next we drove a little further towards Riverside California to eat birria a special Mexican goat stew Again this is another Mexican food that just melts in your mouth meat cooked until fall apart tender It was spectacular and all the staff were very friendly as well Total price 32 for everythingMitla Cafe Right across the street from Birrieria Guadalajara you will find Mitla Cafe home to the original crunchy American taco An American taco is a crunchy shell ground beef iceberg lettuce yellow cheese and tame salsa As the true story goes Glen Bell was selling food across the street and used to come to Mitla Cafe to eat their amazing crunchy tacos Eventually he got the owner to show him how to make the crunchy tacos and he later started the entire taco bell empire The downside is that he never admitted that he got the idea and recipe from Mitla Cafe It s nice to see Mitla Cafe is still doing very well and their crunchy American tacos are fantastic Price 13 95Taco Bell Yes just for comparison purposes we had to go to the nearly Taco Bell It had been years since I had last eaten taco bell I have to admit the crunchy tacos were decent but the crunchwrap supreme doritos locos thing we order nope That just didn t do it for me Mariscos Jalisco Finally to end this Mexican street food tour of LA we headed to Mariscos Jalisco a legendary seafood truck serving their famous shrimp tostadas and the Poseidon They were delicious in every dimension and it was the perfect ending to this full day of amazing Mexican food in LA Total price 13 for everythingThank you for watching this LA food video CAMERA GEAR I used to make this video these are affiliate links I would love to connect with you