Xolotacos Food Truck (Chula Vista)

For some reason, I’ve been wanting some Birria recently…..some decent birria. I actually had my heart set on finally heading back down to Ed Fernandez Restaurant….yes, I was actually willing to drive down to Nestor. But then, I had started hearing about a truck located off Main Street in Chula Vista that had some buzz surrounding it….I believe that the original location is in TJ and an acquaintance told me that the folks who took Anthony Bourdain around TJ on No Reservations back in 2012 have been recommending it on Social Media as well.

The name of the truck is Xolotacos and is located on Taco Truck Main Street in Chula Vista. So, I drove on down and found the truck in the parking lot of Bobar Liqour along with another truck. It was still fairly early, but the Xolotacos Truck was quite busy.

What was strange was that the carnitas truck across from it, did not have a single customer during my entire time there. All the customers eating and ordering were speaking Spanish…..for some reason, I found that comforting.

The truck has their salsas and agua frescas on a cart under the tent with the tables.

I quickly made my decision…..

And you know I wasn’t going to be having Mariscos, right?

Wanting to see how the birria itself was, I ordered a Taco de Birria ($3.75) and of course some Consome ($2). I was excited to see Taco de Birria con Nervio (tendon – $3.99)…something that I really enjoyed at Fernandez. All together about $10.50 before tip. Soon enough, my name was called and I went to pick up my order.

Man, these tacos were pretty huge!

They also come with beans, I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. But the beans did add another layer of earthy-nutty flavor which I kind of enjoyed. I tasted the birria…slightly beefy-savory, very buttery in texture. Not as good as Fernandez in my opinion, but the best I’ve had in a while.

I added some of the salsa to this taco and whoa….it’s pretty spicy! The were fine held up, even after some dunks in the consome.

Which I really enjoyed.

It was richer, spicier, and more flavorful than others I’ve had. Perhaps not as beefy….but really full of onion-cilantro and spices. Great with a squeeze of lime.

But my favorite item of the day was the Taco de Birria con Nervio. Oh my goodness, so much buttery, almost creamy and soft tendon in this!

The textures were so wonderful! For some reason, the beefiness seemed to come thru a bit more with this taco. Though I still think that the beefy flavor is a bit mild here.

I was stuffed after this. I was tempted to order the Taco de Birria con Tuetano, but am glad I didn’t! It gives me a reason to return, right?

Xolotacos
3189 Main St. (In the parking lot of Bobar Liqour Store)
Chula Vista, CA 91911
Current Hours:
Daily 7am – 5pm