Tacos on the go

The Taco Del Oro Truck parked along Orange Avenue serves the local neighborhood. (Will Nacouzi)

The Taco Del Oro Truck parked along Orange Avenue serves the local neighborhood. (Will Nacouzi)

While much is made of the fanciful feeding frenzy that is “Off the Grid,” I find that it is the ubiquitous, garden variety taco trucks-the kind found parked across the street from a pet hospital or in an industrial neighborhood-that epitomize fly-by-night dining.

While there are far too many to speak for on the whole, one that I have found to be consistently awesome is Taco Del Oro, a truck that is usually parked along Orange Park in South San Francisco during daylight hours.

Taco Del Oro was the first taco truck I ever ate at, and it forever changed my opinion of taco trucks. I don’t mean to get too mystical about it, since it is just a restaurant with wheels, but it is a fantastic restaurant on wheels. Most of the items are exceedingly cheap-the prices of drinks are gouged up like crazy-and stupendously delicious.

One beef, chicken or pork taco is one dollar, and some of the fancier tacos (such as the taco de cabeza or taco de lengua) are about twenty-five cents more expensive, unless the guy making them forgets, which has been happening lately. They also have a number of other food choices that I should try, but I’ve never been able to get past the usual taco-with-everything.

There is little more that I can convey other than the tacos are tear-jerkingly delicious. And, just for the sake of stating, I’ve never gotten food poisoning from this or any other taco truck, which is all I ever really ask of a wheeled restaurant.