For their salsa bar they need to replace the gross cucumber slices, full of seeds, with sliced radishes!
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My goto on the mid peninsula, los gallos rwc, is favored because they still have a salsa bar and unlimited chips. The meats are good but ive had better, but i just can’t get excited without a salsa bar.
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I had really good tacos at El Roy’s Express truck in Santa Rosa at 1am last night, driving back from a show in Healdsburg. I was pretty drunk and their carnitas hit the spot. Pretty bustling at that hour too.
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Ooooooops. Glad you made it home okay.
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Wasn’t me behind the wheel 
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New fave in Vallejo: La Piñata Taqueria. Their salsa roja and grilled onions kick ass. I ordered carnitas, pastor, and chorizo, then went back to the window 3 more times lol. Extra points for being one of the few trucks with a restroom out back.
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Was this on the same outing as Bud’s?
If so, I admire your capacity.
I was taking a teenager to six flags (ugh 
) so we met up at Bud’s at 10:30am for “lunch” and then stopped at the truck for dinner after leaving the park around 7:30pm, on our way back to SF.
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Badge of Honor!
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I’ve had this place bookmarked but haven’t made it yet.
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Tijuana style tacos with carne asada at Tacos del Barrio in the former Roosevelt Tamale Parlor. I’ve not been to Tijuana, closest was a visit to the Tire Shop Taqueria in LA. The ones at Tacos del Barrio were not quite as good as those but were still quite good. And quite large. Tender marinated steak on I believe a freshly made flaky corn tortilla that had some crispy cheese fried on it. Topped with guacamole.
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Returned today, menu expanded but still no labels on salsas. All the red ones are pretty hot. Now they have radish slices. Also have handmade tortilla tacos, $6 instead of $3.50.
I asked for crispy carne, crispy carnitas. Carnitas weren’t crispy, pieces of off putting fat so I exchanged for chorizo. Only so-so. The cheese on these comes crispy unless you say regular. Carne was good, I like their guacamole. Processing: IMG_1792.jpeg…
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Reyes taqueria y Pupuseria is our stop when garage/estate saling in the Jackson/Pine Grove area. Cars and pickups pouring into their parking lot tell the story. Excellent product, cordial people, shaded/covered picnic table seating. Smarter people call in their orders; we wait and people watch. Great cabeza, carnitas. Extra jalapeno, no problem.
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Forgot to mention … I’d never tried birria so I asked for a little sample. For me, it was tough, chewy … had to remove to a napkin.
I’m dying to try a taco truck in East Oakland near airport, Las Parrillas Locas, great write up in SF Chronicle and great yelp reviews. They grill with charcoal and make their own corn tortillas, long lines.
Bad traffic situation from SF so I don’t know when I’ll go.
Minor report on Taqueria La Gallina, in Half Moon Bay, on Hwy 1 near Hwy 92. Carnitas and Al Pastor tacos are very good and standard. Good salsa, I think $3.50 ea. The pollo asada taco was…meh.
However they get their name because they serve fried chicken (broasted). Apparently it use to be a FC joint and they left the deep fryer pressure cooker. 3 pieces with fries, $9.99…or you can sub rice and beans. Minimal breading/batter, very good FC for the price.
Not many places to get tacos and FC. Haven’t tried any of their other menu items, like the soup.
Taqueria La Gallina
250 Cabrillo Hwy
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily
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Shrimp and fish tacos, El Molina Central, Sonoma. Shrimp were great, plump fresh with crispy batter. Fish were super fresh but tad bland. Homemade tortillas.
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Did a mini Oakland taco crawl to get out of the fog. There are probably 100 taco trucks, stands, shops within 5 square mile surrounding International Blvd. and they all have nuances, some have 1-2 meats, some have salsa bars, some give you grilled onion or nopales. Even on side streets I saw stands set up in front of people’s houses and side yards doing birria, mariscos, etc. It would be a great project to try to catalogue it all.
Tacos Al Pastor Pueblo - Al Pastor specialist, closes at 4:00, I think that’s all they do and they’re excellent,. Within this block there are also various ice cream/ice trucks, a place doing whole grilled chicken on mesquite with excellent homemade tortillas (grabbed a half chicken to eat later), a truck doing just lamb barbacoa, a tacos vapor specialist, etc.
El Paisa
Brick and mortar, with a parking lot, indoor and outdoor dining and full salsa bar. They give you a free coke with your tacos. Very popular. Order at the register, wait for one of the three guys chopping meat to free up, hand them your ticket and they make the tacos. Great salsa and well made tacos, the asada was very good.
La Parilla Loca. Opens at 4:00. Very popular, people arrived as soon as they opened. Full salsa bar. We got asada vampiro (cheese and crispy tortilla) and chorizo, with everything (green salsa, onions and guac). You can really taste the grill smoke in the asada. Nice looking selection of aqua frescas/horchatas. Order and pay at the table, then hand your slip to the truck. They aren’t grilling on site, but meats were really good.
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I’m dying to try La Parrilla Loca but I don’t want to drive there. Is this near the Oakland airport? I thought they grilled on charcoal there.
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