The street is the best place for having a good taco, these are the ones you´ll need to hunt down while visiting the city.
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Canasta
Oily, delicious and cheap, the most common flavors are chicharrón (pork), beans, potatoes or adobo.
Find them on a bike riding around the city,
Average cost: $7 – $10 mxn
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Birria
The traditional recipe is made with goat, but in the city we make them with beef, slow cooked, with a characteristic red birria sauce and a cup or broth as a pairing.
Average cost: $8 – $20 mxn
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Bistec con papas
Steak and fries, you can order it with cheese, or make a campechano (with chorizo) they usually have nopales (cactus) and other toppings like beans, onions, pápalo and green or red sauce.
Average cost: $15 – $35
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Al pastor
Pork with adobo made like a shawarma (that´s actually it´s origine) with pineapple, onions and cilantro. Ad lime, salt and the sauce you prefer.
Average cost: $10 – $30 MXN
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Suadero, tripa, lengua
Often sold at the same stall, All the meat is floating happily in what we call the meat jacuzzi. Slowly getting confited in lard ready to be chopped into a taco. They have lots of options: Suadero is brisket, tripa is intestines, cachete is cheek and ojo, eye balls.
The tongue (lengua) is usually steamed and cut into slices rather than chopped.
Don´t forget the sauce and some pápalo, the green herbal bouquet standing next to the toppings.
Average price: $7 – $25 MXN
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Campechano
If you put chorizo on a taco, that´s a campechano. It can be steak and chorizo, cecina and chorizo, suadero and chorizo.
Average cost: $10 – $30