Recently, while driving home from dinner, we noticed a new taco truck in the old service station lot on the corner of Clairemont Drive and Balboa. Over the years, we've seen a couple of taco trucks, and even a BBQ truck testing out this corner lot. Most were gone within a week or two. But on a recent evening, I noticed that the truck was still in business, and decided to stop.
Driving into the parking lot and past the light show, I thought that something about the signs looked familiar.
Parking my car, and seeing the back of the trailer confirmed it:
This was La Princesita 2, the sister taco truck to the very popular truck parking in the lot of Joe's 99 cent store in Linda Vista. Thing were looking up. This trailer sold tacos, burritos, and tortas, and if I recall, the carne asada at La Princesita 1 is pretty good.
Tacos are priced at $1.50, so I got four……
Two Carne Asada, and two Lengua….I had wanted a Tacos de Cabeza, but they were out.
The Carne Asada was better than most of the something 'Berto's and the other taco shop chains in the area.
But suffered in our opinion, probably because we had just had some very good carne asada from El Poblano the night before. This was decent for carne asada done on a griddle, with some nice caramelized pieces, but lacking in a strong marinade. The occaisional piece of gristle didn't help things. Along with the decent salsa, onions, pickled onions, and cilantro, this wasn't bad, though I think the original truck's version is better. The corn tortillas were fine….
The Lengua (beef tongue) was too waxy, and lacked the nice gamey-beefy flavor of good lengua.
As it stood, this wasn't a very good version of lengua. If you're afraid of lengua, this is so mild, that if you can get over the texture, it'll be nice version for a first try.
It is nice to have some decent tacos in the neighborhood, and by what the folks were ordering (12 adobaba tacos!!!). I hope La Princesita 2 sticks around.
La Princensita 2 Taco Truck – on the corner of Balbo and Clairemont Drive.