I had a friend who used to live near the original El Chilito (the taco-stand version of El Chile) on Manor Road and she used to talk almost incessantly about how good El Chilito was, and how she lived off their tacos in college. So when I found out that El Chilito Numero Dos is now open (just opened this month!) on Congress between 9th & 10th, I was super excited to finally get the chance to try it out!
I took an out-of-town friend and we tried five different tacos. The meat isn’t free-range, so my choices were fairly limited, but I went with a Vegetal and a breakfast taco of potato, egg, and cheese. Both were really, really good. Since college, where breakfast tacos are the norm, I feel like I’ve shied away from breakfast tacos because most of the time they just aren’t as good as you think they’re going to be. This one was different, however. The potatoes were perfectly crispy, there was the perfect mix of egg and cheese, and the flour tortilla was closer in texture to a corn tortilla, which turned out to be the perfect base for a breakfast taco.
The Vegetal was superb too, actual vegetables piled into two corn tortillas. It needed a little zest, but a healthy serving of the black salsa they serve with tacos revved it right up. The place is sparse, and the tacos come in brown paper bags even if you’re planning on eating there. It’s definitely built to service downtown workers FAST–and it’s only open Monday thru Friday 7am-3pm.
Bottom line: snag a quick and delicious lunch without any frills.
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