Lori tagged along on the second visit and got two tacos-Carne Asada, and Barbacoa. The tacos without hot sauce taste fantastic, and with hot sauce they are excellent as well. All of the meats at The Grumpy Gringo are well seasoned, fresh, moist and juicy. If you like it really hot, you’ll love it. Lori felt the hot was already extra hot, and couldn’t imagine what the extra hot would be like…and didn’t want to. I ate half of each without hot sauce so I could really taste them the way they come, and then ate the remainder trying the house hot and extra hot sauces. On the Cochinita Pibil (shredded pork) I added jalapeños, and cheese and had a soft flour tortilla. I got it just how it comes, although there are several extra items you can add. The Street Taco is a corn tortilla, steak, onions, cilantro, and cilantro lime sauce. Grumpy Gringo 2510 22nd Ave N St Petersburg, FL 33713 (727) 851-9800 Grumpy Gringo Website Grumpy Gringo’s flavors are amazing, the service is quick and cheerful, and you must try the house-made hot sauces. Here are the Best Places to get Tacos in St. (All photos are my own unless otherwise indicated.) Ok, on to the list! THE LIST IS IN RANDOM ORDER. And yes, I went to all of the places and ate every one of these tacos, some of them many times over. Some of the places are sit down, full-blown Mexican restaurants, and others are hole-in-the-wall former gas stations, and everything in between. Now, there are all kinds of fillings and toppings, and taquerias are continuing to be more inventive every day, which is definitely evidenced by many of our top picks below. So, what is “Authentic Mexican Food”? There’s no such thing. Al Pastor actually comes from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico. Did you know that before the Spanish came over that the only meat the natives ate was Turkey? They didn’t even use dairy, so no cheese! The Spanish introduced pork, chicken, beef, goat, and sheep – and fried in pork fat. Everyone always argues about what’s “Authentic”. It’s almost a useless word that gets overused a lot in relation to Mexican food. There’s really no such thing as one kind of authentic when describing an entire country’s food, especially Mexico. The other thing that happened that is similar, is that they were influenced by the American, or Norte Americanos, as they would call us, (Mexicans considered themselves “Americans” too)-they were influenced by the American foods, which is how lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese found its way into the taco along with ground beef. Plus, they were no longer dirt poor, and could afford better meat. First, they had to use what was available-ground beef instead of offals.
Tacos evolved naturally when Mexicans immigrated to the U.S. (By the way, Taco Bell is crap.) The first taco meat was likely offal meat – internal organs and entrails, which aren’t that bad when a chef that knows what they’re doing prepares them. To sum it up, tacos were most likely invented by Mexican silver miners in the 18th century. Mexican Americans in the Southwest reinvented it, and businessman Glen Bell mass-marketed it to Anglo palates via the crunchy Taco Bell shell. It is so stupid, stating that the very first tacos had “salsa, onions, guacamole, and lime.” I don’t think so.
Whatever you do, don’t bother with the one from Ortega. As I sat down to write this, the first thoughts that popped into my head were 1) Everybody loves tacos, 2) There sure are a lot of different types of tacos these days, and 3) what is the actual origin of the taco-is it really Mexican, and how close to the original are they to what we eat today? So, I Googled, “What is the origin of the taco?” There’s a bunch of stuff out there, but I liked The Smithsonian’s article the best, as it was the most interesting, and the most credible, in my opinion.
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