My second piece for SeriousEats.com. My last piece, a guide to South by Southwest, is available here.
Nashville Taco Truck Roundup
Posted by Citizen Taco, April 19, 2010 at 1:45 PM
A quick web search of “Nashville” and “taco trucks” will get you two types of results.
First you’ll find a few postings, mostly from late 2005, about the city’s purported plans to ban taco trucks due to “health concerns,” which apparently never went through (gracias a Dios). But most of what you’ll find being written about taco trucks in Nashville today focuses exclusively on Mas Tacos, a gourmet mobile trailer of the type that’s got the country all aTwitter these days.
Mas Tacos’ blue-and-yellow Winnebago has been serving tacos like “summer style quinoa” and “cast-iron chicken” since late 2008 and tweeting their location since March 2009, much to the delight of local foodies and non-foodies alike. Unfortunately, the myopic devotion that they’ve engendered—on display via Yelp and other online forums—has blinded local eaters to the plethora of cheaper, more authentic, and in my opinion tastier, taco trucks nearby.
