A bit down the road, you’ll find two marquee taquerías on the same block, a branch of the venerable La Estrella chain, operating out of a truck parked in front of the restaurant, and El Pique, a truck that seems to be permanently parked in front of a car wash at the corner of York and Avenue 53. Las Estrellas, whose Pasadena stand often engenders waits of almost an hour, is usually the more crowded of the two, and its wet, saucy carne asada tacos are the kind that it is easy to dream about when you are stuck abroad for a month or two. But El Pique, which sells what it calls D.F.-style tacos, as served in Mexico City, may be one of the best taco trucks in Los Angeles: freshly grilled tortillas rich with the flavor of toasted corn, peppery steak or chile-crusted bits of pork al pastor, a smoky, complexly hot red salsa that melts into the crisp meat — magnificent. I will never figure out why this D.F.-style truck sports so much swag from the Chivas, the Guadalajara soccer team that has about the same profile in Mexico City that the Red Sox do in the Bronx, but if the owner continues to serve tacos like these, he can root for Manchester United if he wants.
You might think that the crunchy, sandal-shaped huaraches — fried masa smeared with beans, Mexican cream, sharp cheese — at the Mexico City–style stand El Huarache Azteca would be anticlimactic after a taco or two at El Pique. But you would be terribly, terribly wrong.
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Antojitos Guerrero
5623 York Blvd.
Highland Park, CA 90042
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: Northeast L.A.
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El Huarache Azteca
5225 York Blvd.
Highland Park, CA 90042
Category: Restaurant > Latin American
Region: Northeast L.A.
El Pique Taco Truck
York at Ave. 53
Highland Park, CA 90042
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: Northeast L.A.
Mariscos Sinaloa
5633 York Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90042-2536
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: Northeast L.A.
Tacos El Michoacano
5933 York Blvd.
Highland Park, CA 90042
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: Northeast L.A.
Villas Durango Restaurant
5672 York Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90042-2551
Category: Restaurant >
Region: Northeast L.A.
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Antojitos Guerrero, 5623 York Blvd., (323) 254-6118.
El Huarache Azteca, 5225 York Blvd., (323) 478-9572.
El Pique, parked at the corner of York Blvd. and Ave. 53.
La Estrella, parked at the corner of York Blvd. and Ave. 54.
Mariscos Sinaloa, 5633 York Blvd., (323) 258-6823.
Tacos el Michoacano, 5933 York Blvd., (323) 258-0794.
Villas Durango, 5672 York Blvd., (323) 255-1491.
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