My first visit was to Latin Burger, which was camped out off Miami Avenue and 34th Street near Midtown. I managed to drive by twice before spotting the truck in the back of a parking lot behind a furniture store between 34th & 35th Streets, and I felt a bit like Tommy Vercetti trying to hunt down a target in Grand Theft Auto Vice City.
With truck found, I took a look at the menu, which is short and to the point:
You can get a "Latin Macho" burger, or a selection of tacos - chicken tomatillo, chicken mole or pulled pork. You can also add "Plain Jane" fries if you wish. I went with the "Latin Macho" burger and skipped the fries, knowing I was saving some room for a further stop at gastroPod.
Though the menu says the burger comes with either "avocadolicious sauce" or red pepper mayo, it in fact came with neither - though another customer had the good idea to ask for the sauces, which were available in squeeze bottles. I topped the last quarter of my burger with some of the "avocadolicious sauce" - a thick, lightly creamy avocado puree - and it completed the package very nicely.
This was a very good burger - maybe not as good as the one I had recently at Burger & Beer Joint (even if I screwed up by ordering one with too many goofy toppings there), but comparable to - naw, better than - a Five Guys burger; similar in style, but with the added bonus of more exotic and interesting flavors to the burger and the toppings (and at a comparable price).
It is worth hunting down this truck if it's in your neighborhood.
Next - a shiny object beckons - the gastroPod!
Latin Burger & Taco Truck
on twitter: @LatinBurger
Hi F, I wish I would be more adventurous to say that oxtail and trotter meat would be appealing from the gastropod, but I think the Latin burger menu would have more mass appeal, don't you? I WILL try them though...where is he usually parked?
ReplyDeleteIs the Latin Burger like a frita?
When I lived in L.A. my fave taco truck sold tacos for $.80 each!
Finally was able to hunt down the truck. Liked tacos much more than the burger. Only beef was tacos were served on mediocre flour tortillas. I'm a corn tortilla guy only!! Other than that fillings were good and I'd recommend next time you're there. Skip the fries, I saw an Ore-Ida bag being pulled out.
ReplyDeleteLDC - the use of chorizo in the grind is frita-influenced, but the toppings are not (no potato sticks!). And the pricing is definitely not like you'll find at an old-school taco wagon - though even Orale, which is about as close as you'll get here in Miami, sells theirs for about $1.50 / $2 a pop.
ReplyDeleteL2M - I'll have to try the tacos next, though I was pretty happy with the burger. It benefitted immensely from a little squeeze of the "avocadolicious" sauce.
Glad to see they toned down the sauce. When I got mine it was a decent burger swamped with too much creamy goodness. Also had a taco with more of the same. Enjoyed them while they were in my hands, but it just felt like too much afterward (eater's remorse?)
ReplyDeleteI was introduced to a frita last month in miami, and i gotta say, it was amaaaazing!! there's a burger place in dc called 'good stuff' and it is just the best i have ever had, EVER. plain farmhouse cheese is burger perfection.
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