Cuantos Tacos

Cuantos Tacos is a food truck in the Arbor Food Park on East 12th, easy to walk past and a mistake to skip. The menu stays tight and specific to Mexico City style: suadero, carnitas, buche, and a lengua special that shows up on Wednesdays and disappears fast. That restraint is the point. A short list done exactly right beats a long one done adequately.

The tortillas come from the Colonial Tortilla Factory in San Antonio rather than off a comal on site, and they're excellent anyway — small, barely three inches, fully nixtamalized corn. That size isn't a shortcoming. It puts the focus where it belongs, on finely diced meat cooked in lard that doesn't need help. Order them as tacos or quesadillas and the math stays in your favor either way.

Three consecutive years of Bib Gourmand recognition from Michelin isn't a fluke for a truck this size — it's confirmation of what the plate already proves. The welcome matches the food: quick, warm, no attitude about eating off a counter in a food park. This is street-food cooking with real technique behind it, charging street-food prices. Get the suadero, get there on a Wednesday if you can, and don't expect a dining room to apologize for.