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What Mexicans Call Love






This local storefront taqueria is a great place for families, workers and hot Mexican girls on spring break. Today dining in there were the most beautiful Callientas eating off wax paper covered plates like all patrons do.

Of course the most important thing is the food. This is always hot, fresh and fast. The kitchen faces the street and is the first thing you walk past when you enter. The guys behind the plastic glass are also hot, fresh and fast. The waitresses are numerous and also hot, but sometimes they do not speak English. They never fail to get the job done, except sometimes on a Saturday afternoon when the place is packed.

The ambience is the second best thing about Taco Veloz. Every single holiday on record, they decorate the place. Not just a couple things out, but lots of stuff, hung from the ceiling, on the walls, at the tables. You name a holiday, Taco Veloz energetically commemorates it. Every type of person goes into Taco Veloz, but not surprisingly Mexicans are in abundance. Mexican families (Mexicans have particularly cute babies), Mexican workers, Mexican out-and-abouters and the aforementioned hot Mexican girls.

But also frequenting are black people, white people and every sort who know a great food value. Taco Veloz is easy on the wallet, unless of course you start in on the Tecate and tequila. On warm days they put out beer in a cooler on ice to tempt diners. Actually there is beer on ice every day, even in the dead of winter.

A frequent customer says he has been going regularly for five years and has not once had a bad time. Not once. He does mention that occasionally you can be shocked by the sudden loud music, which periodically erupts out of the juke box. You should not be afraid, it is the way here.

There is a shrine in the back to the late Don who founded the place. One of those traditional Mexican shrines that is ornate, large and quite touching. It is said that those who get a blessing from this shrine are guaranteed a good day and good digestion.

P.S. On the weekend try the posole - this corn pone and pork soup comes with a side plate of fresh garnishes, and will keep you filled for the next 12 hours.


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