Tacos El Gordo, Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas, United States.
Tacos El Gordo is a Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas that serves Tijuana-style tacos made with handmade corn tortillas and a range of meat options. The menu covers marinated cuts as well as specialty meats like tongue and head meat, all prepared fresh to order at open cooking stations.
The restaurant started as a small taqueria in Tijuana before opening a location in Las Vegas, carrying over the same recipes and cooking methods from the start. This move brought a cooking tradition rooted in northern Mexico directly to the American Southwest.
Each taco is assembled by hand with a fresh corn tortilla, just as it would be in a street taqueria in Tijuana. The meat selection, from marinated pork to tongue or head meat, reflects what you find at roadside stands in northern Mexico.
The place stays open late into the night, which makes it a popular stop after an evening out on the Strip or elsewhere in the city. Lines can get long during busy hours, so arriving a little earlier or later than peak time helps.
The kitchen runs separate stations for each type of meat, so the cook at each station handles only one variety throughout the service. This means a single cook often spends an entire shift working on nothing but, say, the tripe or the adobada.
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