Tacos Y Gorditas Santos
Food TruckIt’s been a while since I’ve actually written a blog post about a place in Kalamazoo.
Let me let you in on a little secret. Figure skating is expensive. We’ve curbed our eating out at home because we have to eat out when we’re at competitions. There’s not a lot extra left in the weekly budget to for luxuries until we get through competition season.
I’ve been working a ton of overtime recently and I decided to take advantage of a little bit of padding in the check. Lunchtime Live is back at Bronson Park on Friday’s and I happened to be in the office during the lunch hour.
This was my first excursion to Lunchtime Live this year. There were some familiar trucks but also some new ones that I can’t wait to try over the next several weeks.
I was in a taco mood on this particular day so I got in line at Tacos Y Gorditas Santos.
This small yellow food truck looks like it’s been around for about three years yet somehow I have neve crossed paths with them. They’re based in Kalamazoo and do typical Mexican street foods like tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and tortas.
There was a line probably five people deep when I walked up so it gave me a few minutes to look over the menu on the side of the truck. I pretty much knew what I wanted before I walked up but I figured I should give it a once over in case there was something else that jumped out at me.
I stuck to my typical order of 4 steak tacos with cilantro and onion. The cost was a little over $12 and it only took a few minutes for the buzzer they gave me to go off. I grabbed the tacos and headed to the little table next to the order window where they have big bottle of salsa. I grabbed the red one and loaded up the tacos before heading back to the office.
The four tacos were pretty standard tacos. They’re each two warm corn tortillas loaded with tender bits of steak and topped with chopped cilantro and onion.
I go back and forth on ordering four or five tacos depending on the price. These were $3 each so I stuck with four.
The tacos are filled with meat though so it doesn’t seem like that price is off. There was so much I probably should have held back one of the tortillas and make a 5th taco from all of my drippings. These tacos were delicious and exactly what I was craving on this particular Friday.
Just like BBQ food trucks, there are getting to be a lot of taco food trucks in Kalamazoo. That’s not a bad thing. A taco truck on every corner is a good thing. Tacos y Gorditas Santos is another solid food truck. Not sure how I haven’t run in to them before but they’ll be on my short list for the rest of the summer.
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