Que Ricos Tacos
Food TruckLet’s try to get back to some Southwest Michigan blog posts. I know I’ve been on the road lately so I’ve neglected the home base a bit.
A colleague and I were in Battle Creek unexpectedly last Wednesday. I knew that there are food trucks that have been parking at the Federal Center and the Wednesday one is one that sounded really good to me.
We were kind of out by the zoo though. As we made our way back towards downtown, I also saw a taco truck. I told my co-worker that if the truck at the Federal Center wasn’t there then I’d go back to the taco truck.
We got downtown and no food truck. It was raining so I wasn’t that surprised. We still had some time to kill so I said I was going to go back to the taco truck. My co-worker didn’t argue.
The taco truck I found was Que Ricos Tacos. It’s parked semi-permanently on Beadle Lake Road south of Columbia Avenue. This spot has had a couple of different food trucks parked here over the years including OT’s Up in Smoke several years ago. There’s actually a permanent cement pad that the food truck sits next to so even on rainy days like this, you don’t have to stand in the mud to order.
I don’t even really look at the menu when I go to a taco truck. There are other things to order but I stuck to my usual four steak tacos with cilantro and onion. The cost was right around $15 and it took about five minutes for the lone employee to hand out a bag with food in it.
There is actually a pretty nice place to sit and eat around the truck. There are a number of picnic tables on a concrete pad but it was pretty rainy that day so I just headed back to my car to eat.
I got four tacos, like I always do. They come squeezed in to a Styrofoam box with a couple of lemon wedges and some hot sauce. Each of the double layered corn tortillas was over flowing the chopped steak.
I knew instantly that these tacos were special. There are crispy bits around the edges of the tortillas which means they were warmed up and slightly cooked. The steak itself also had a little bit of a crunch to it. Between the tortillas, the steak, and the onions, there was a good bit of tasty crunch in each bite. There was only a couple of small things of hot sauce in the box but I was able to stretch it out so I got a good bit of heat in each bite.
This is really what you’re looking for when you go to a taco truck. The food is high quality and delicious. I almost pass Que Ricos Tacos on that day but I’m almost glad the food truck I was looking for wasn’t open. These tacos were fantastic.
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