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...have dirty blond hair and blue eyes and am probably about as gringo as you can get. But I do have a weakness for Mexican food. I absolutely love rice and beans and anything made with tortillas. So when I was asked to write about Real Taco, I jumped at the chance like a Mexican jumping beans jumps at whatever causes Mexican jumping beans to jump...
Apparently FM didn’t trust me to be able to evaluate the authenticity of Real Taco by myself, so I was assigned a co-writer, Patricio, from Mexico. Good call, guys...
...meet Patricio for the first time on the steps of Real Taco. He is smoking a Pall Mall. As he finishes up, I watch at least 10 people walk in ahead of us to order. I am impatient—not to mention cold—and rush inside to order as soon as he is done...
...enter are throngs of confused, hungry people in a logjam in front of the counter. At Noch’s people know to line up on the right side of the pillar and wait for their food on the left. The Wrap basically herds customers into line. At Real Taco there is not yet place to line up. Ordering is sheer pandemonium. Patricio gets the steak quesadilla combo (which includes chips, salsa and a drink), which is nicknamed, for what reason I do not know, the Real Relax ($6.95). I order the 25-ounce chicken burrito ($4.95). Without...
Espinoza opened the first Real Taco in 1999 at Downtown Crossing and has since developed a catering business...