Top 5 BEST STREET TACOS in Mexico City! ULTIMATE “Steamed Tacos” & Hidden Gems

hey guys it's Mike Chen here in Mexico City today I'm going on a Michelin Taco tour starting off with a Taco Star that's specializes in Charo tacos then going to a taco shop that was the favorite of the late great Chef Anthony berdan then I'm meeting up with some local food guides for one of the best brisket tacos in the city and finally ending the day with a secret Burger Shop let's get started first stop of the day at Taco stall featured on the Michelin guide Rico tacos TCA so this place has been around for over 20 years and he specialized in chizo and [Music] Cina so I'm in luck fresh batch of Cina just went on the grill also got some chizo Verde this green colored chizo and on top they have french fries and grilled onions I'm always so excited for my first bite of Taco of the day o this is freaking awesome this Charo has a beautiful array of spices heat is tingy is flavorful it's the perfect amount of everything a wonderful sear from the grill Mak some pieces nice and toasty oh there is so much flavor in this and the french fries also cuts down on the acid it cuts down a bit on the tetin of the Tero as well this is spectacular by the time I start eating this taco stand is Pat with a line start in the form and apparently most people conjure for the chizo which is really a testament of how good this is I got to hurry my Cina because that thing just came out to grill and I want it fresh and juicy try a different sauca this time this one they said is it's a little less spicy little more Smokey this is an absolutely loaded taco by the way splash of lime juice here we go M oh that's Sao knock your socks off I might like this more than a toizo Soo is chewy yet tender it's Savory deeply beefy with a subtle smokiness and earthiness wow I love me a beefy taco and this is about as beefy as you can get they loaded with tons of meat by the way also the grilled onions fantastic little sweet crunchy juicy just perfect with a Savory beef those are some delicious satisfying tacos and like I said there's people just crowding around the stall right now I mean know one wonder I smell this thing walking down the street yeah this is a good start this next taco place I'm going to has been on my taco bucket list for a while since I saw it on Parts on know where Anthony Bordain said this was his favorite Taco in Mexico City and since then this is now a Michelin Taco Shop I know it's going to be a lot bigger now a lot more crowded a lot more touristy probably let's check it out and there it is just all right got three tacos the suero brisket stripe and of course al pastor add a little bit of salsa this might be one of the better if not the best alpastor taco I've had in Mexico City on this trip so far this thing is pretty darn juicy some pieces are toasty on the outside tender and juicy on the inside I love the crunch from the onions and the every single pite I'm able to get some of that juicy toasted pineapple that's delicious this is the suo also I want to say I know my pronunciation is horrid and I apologize wow pros and cons on this Taco the pro the flavor is absolutely perfect it's tender it's Smoky it tastes like a Texas brisket especially with the drizzle of lime juice to cut into the richness of the beef I like that a lot but I feel like some bites are a hit and some bites are a miss some bites when I'm getting a lot of the fatty beef it's juicy it's tender it's freaking fantastic some bites that meats are a little leaner and it's a bit dry overall though it's a solid Taco this looks good this is tripa I saw the tribe cooking in that giant cauldron of meat it looks so good I know a lot of people might not be into try this is one of the best bites of tacos I've had in Mexico City I kid you that this is through the roof delicious some pieces with a nice sear it's also so juicy and flavorful I mean this is Flavor concentrate every bite there little crunchy bits in there that's my favorite slight bit of organ wami flavor that I love I think this is my favorite Taco so far the other tacos are good that one I just blew them out of the water I don't know whether it's because there's so many people here and all the tacos have to be made Super Fresh but the tacos here are some of my favorites so far on a hot day eat some tacos get a ice cold bottle of coke oh this is living this is living three delicious tacos and a bottle of coke under five bucks Michelin tacos all right I got to hurry because I'm meeting some local friends for more [Music] tacos this is alahandra she's from CL Tingo ombre you guys run Food Tours all around Mexico City Y you're going to take me to some classic or off the beaten path Taco spots today yes the best ones the best ones let's do it hope you're hungry I am let's go actually we don't have to go anywhere it's right here this the first place this the T this is a super famous te of this neighborhood and they do a huge beautiful basket tackle wow as you can see this basket usually handles a th000 tacos there's a th000 tacos in there is it steamed or what they do is that they will lay some paper cloth and plastic inside the basket and they will stop tortillas with different things they will hold them and stack the whole basket and then when it's ready they will drop sliced onions and super hot oil and they just close them quickly and they let it steam inside oh that's excited let's go take a look at this [Music] I ordered for you a chicharon oh nice and the SE basically this is beef shredded and this is chichon the pork rind so in salsa oh that sounds great it's amazing and this salsa is Magic it's Chile Morita is a really famous Chile that is super flavorable kind of smoky and they mix it with the same chicharon these are the people's customer favorites so these are steamed they are steamed inside the basket they will pour the super hot oil and close the bank and they will let it steam there for probably 30 minutes oh that's interesting they put the hot oil into the steamer yes it will be really boiling and when it's boiling they will pour in and they will close the bag so it's kind of It kind of cooks it when it's boiling it Cooks the tacos and then it steams that's interesting I had that before so you got the the shredded beef one too yes okay let's try that then wow it's really soft that is a really soft taco very mushy from the potatoes you can definitely taste the beep in there it kind of tastes like a soft Tamal no yes and the salsa there's chichon inside there too they will mix the chichon and Chile Morita and it's more Smokey then spicy right exactly the Chile Morita will give this smokiness to the Sal and this St is really unique I've just seen in here really good texture oh yeah the meat is soft the potato is soft the tortilla soft as well I mean but it still has a very nice texture very nice chew to it I love how the beef is not kind of mushed in there you taste all the beef exactly and it doesn't feel hard in it mhm that is really tender usually one person will eat like 10 of this in one meal W or at least I do so I got another Super Famous feeling is also the chicharon but this one is soaked in green salsa or red salsa so this right here these are all soaked chichon exactly wow okay you're having two different chichon in two different Salas basically wow this is really interesting here oh my God I love this this is right out my alley so this is just pork Chicho pork skin and it's just so in flavor yes Smokey a little SP spicy and the Chron will still have a tiny bit of chew so it's not just mush mush and the flavor you get at the end you don't just get the flavor of the peppers it's that fatty skin it gives a richness more beautiful flavor this is really really interesting yeah I never had a taco like this before I'm happy you like it this is pretty genius using the chichon to soak up all the flavors if you guys like chichiron this is crazy I mean this is super Porky but yeah really simple kind of a mom's dish the feeling the chicharon and green salsa is usually something that a mom will prepare there's so much gelatinous texture here it's so sticky I love it I love it all right so this is what we're getting here what's the next place the next place we're going to get some really Mexico City style uh we're going to get some brisan and campano some beef head so beef head yeah let's go [Music] so this is the next place this is called D Coston is a huge stamp and as you can see it's just like in the middle of a mini triangle in the street it's this little traffic Island yes and they decided to start this place around 30 years ago wow and this is Mexico City huge stamp this is our speed we call them chetas and this is BAS basically like a SoMo shape where in the middle it has like a bump in the edge lift and we will add lower and confit meat in it I love watching it boil with all the different Meats in there so here we're going to get a really big stamp here is a brisket chunk usually if you go to brisket taras they will give it to you chopped but here they are known for the chunk of the brisket we're going to get a campano that means mix is brisket with some H longa that is this red sausage really similar to chorizo but it's a little bit different it's fresh pork and we're going to get a beautiful piece of beef tongue wow okay this is the craziest looking Taco I've seen in a long time it's just a giant piece of brisket and it's so fatty I have really high hopes for this all right what do you usually do to dress you do some little lime juice I always like add lime because I feel tacos should get lime it also is nice got fattiness it gives a really nice Citrus feeling this salsa this is with Tomo some aano MH these are red uh dried Chile with some avano too this is a little bit more spicy just a little bit and this one is um avocado with AO so I'm going to try the comano that's so crispy and nice right mhm I love the spices from the longa you really don't need much in this in terms of flavor it's just all in there I love the salsa too see yeah all right I'm going to try the linga I'm going to add the same salsa because I love it this the best linga I've had anywhere mhm it's so tender I just had one a couple days ago where you bite into it it was tender then all of a sudden it's like you taste it like it's dry this is tender it's juic juy yeah that's out of this world all right you ready to eat this I'm going for my favorite hit him my favorite this is so crazy looking all right cheers that look crazy bit hako this is a committed bite committed bite when you bite this you can't let go you got to just take that big mouthful there is a lot of nice fat on this brisket m m brisket is Mexico City stamp mhm yeah this is where it started really yeah I love brisket and this thing on its own it's already freaking amazing I mean it's got so much flavor in the brisket itself fat Ling meat it's a mouthful you'll be chewing it and flavor just start to emerge and you really do kind of need the salsa and the splash of lime juice to balance out the richness cuz that is a rich piece of Taco this is freaking amazing though so most stands don't do this right the chunk is this gu thing yeah I like it I like a giant chunk of beef oh thank you this is two eye opening taco places that I never would have found all we're going to e up and what's the next place so the next place is a super famous takeria that in the daytime is a auto repair um Auto Repair are they repairing cars now well they have the section where they repair their cars and they have uh Min next to it oh there's a really famous taco place in Los Angeles called tire shop taco Coast oh really it's a tire shop but they serve amazing T anyway I think this is going to be good it's the same kind of for some reason garages anything to do with cars they're going to make good tacos yeah well you're waiting for your car to be fixed you want to eat something yeah that's a good [Music] idea this is called elito this is a really famous Takia that started as a fixing car place and now it's a takeria at night they open a little bit early because also people wants to do launch and they close I believe around 500 a.m. 5:00 a.m. so this is the best taco after dark totally yeah you also they have this thing like you can drive through no you can just be in your car or there some tacos and the takos will bring tacos so you can eat in your car oh is this what this gentleman is doing he's ordering tacos from his car right now oh cool see this kind of the vi and in the other side you can see the door of the and they're still doing the car thing yeah the so what are we getting here so here we're going to get a really famous Pastor they cook it like shaa because it's a Heritage of a lanese community that came and we're also going to get a little bit different it's not a taco but it's something that we eat a lot it's called chichon de queso so it's this kind of cheese that we grill and it will become crispy like a chichon oh that's nice our pastor of Taco is here yeah it looks very fatty and nice it's the biggest piece of pineapple I've seen see on a on alpi store I'm always fascinated I'm very impressed by how the chefs catch the pineapple you know how they slice it off and they just catch it at the bottom like I'd be missing at least 70% of that they need practice yeah yeah no this is amazing so giant piece of pineapple on top and oh only one tortilla here usually it comes with two that's a most common thing but sometimes they just like one so splash lime okay and this is the this fiery looking salsa is the one that's the spiciest yes that's made with Chile look at this meat it's glistening there you can see the fat I have very high hopes for this m this is by far the best one I have in Mico City I thought the place I went to right before I came here it pretty good but this just blew that out of the water every day you get to know a a better one no this is incredibly good this is Juicy you can see the fat in the pork is marinated beautifully giant chunk of pineapple this pork is spectacular they load this Taco up with pork and pineapple you need the enough amount of meat with your chunk of pineapple to give this sweetness savoriness the pineapple is so sweet it's so sweet now you guys know where to go for the best well at least is what I had on this trip the best El Presto taco right here at a car garage oh W what and all that is cheesy and holy what oh my gosh it's it's just a giant piece of grilled cheese that's awesome you just break it and eat it we break it if you want to add some lemon and salsa kind of like if you were eating chicharon M I also want to try this on his own first yeah oh yeah oh that's delicious that delicious how could this not be it's a giant grilled piece of cheese it tastes that little bit of burnt flavor that you really need in a little Che this is like a cheese skirt but all you're eating is a cheese skir exactly this is really famous in a bunch of takas yeah and you usually share this with like five people in the table this is something that I don't feel like two of us can finish luckily you got a couple friends here so we can share with everybody we will but this has been eye openening little taco tour I think the last time I had a steam Taco was I think I was traveling somewhere in mokan but it's way different than what we have and also the the brisk is crazy yeah that's that's a certifiable taco and this place the outpa store is just mind-blowing it's mind-blowing thank you so much for showing me these places I never would have found it on my own uh in your company you guys do these Food Tours all around Mexico City we do Mexico City Waka we do Baja California andada Guadalupe and Tijuana yeah so we're a little bit all over how do people find your company uh we are named clre uh you can find us on Instagram on online just typ clre you'll find us there you can book with us Mexico City Waka Tiana inada V Guadalupe so we have a little bit of everything well I really appreciate it I mean I didn't know what to expect but you really showcase some wonderful tacos to me on this trip I'm happy you like this no thank you so much it was great I'm going to say goodbye to you and then I'm going to go for dinner a little later um so I'll see you guys in a [Music] bit so for dinner I've been wanting to go to this burger shop for about a week now and they got really funky hours I think it's only open uh 3 4 days a week maybe 3 days a week and the hours are kind of weird this is the place secret Burger push the red okay red button see I don't I don't see a rip button wait oh oh wow it's here I don't know if that worked it's supposedly open oh there we go hola uh M grass yes okay that's cool this is like an apartment building yeah I think this is an apartment [Music] building this is a really cozy little burger shop it's dog friendly too and apparently there's like a big Husky that roams around I don't see it today and the burgers supposed to be out of this world I got to say this is a stunning Burger beautiful soft buttery looking buns pickles cheese and 8 oz Pat [Music] wao inside look at this it's like a Juicy Lucy it's stuff with a yellow cheese and blue cheese grilled onions on the bottom I made a big mistake I did not know this thing had all this cheese stuff inside I did not know this so now it's leaking out and I got to save it by cridling it in my hands like this this is a life-changing Burger wow this may be one of the juiciest Burgers I ever put in my mouth I had to SL lurp extra hard to make sure not to drop any more juice Angus Patty delightfully tender and inside is stuffed with some yellow cheese and definitely blue cheese so you got that wonderful earthy creamy Tangy flavor the Patty itself is so wonderful looks like it's cooked medium to medium rare oh my God this is so crazy good I'm going to add some chilies to it because it is so rich I want some heat and some acid to balance that out oh my gosh that is an intensely flavored Burger the buns are soaked with the juice from this Patty if there is a burger Heaven this burger will be on every single menu it's just so overwhelming I kid you not this thing is gooier than a Juicy Lucy two different types of cheese really ask the depth of the flavor profile the Patty is amazing they don't ask you how you want it cooked it's medium rare and it's phenomenal the buns are light and Airy and buttery like I said it soaks up all that juice from the beef patty the pickles slightly sweet definitely a fantastic addition and a sight reprieve from that rich rich Burger I'm so glad I was able to try this I'm actually leaving tomorrow morning at like 3:00 a.m. so this was the last chance for me to come and eat this burger I'm so happy I did not miss out on this this is definitely reminiscent of a Juicy Lucy but fancier and I think after I finished this that wraps up my eating day I mean this is a really Hefty half a pound with a load of cheese stuffed inside also this week in Mexico City just flew by last time I was in Mexico did not get to spend that many days in the city that's why I wanted to come back and spend more time here there's just so many more foods to discover and honestly I barely scratched the surface there's so many foods to try in one week really it's just not enough also I just want to say everyone that I met extremely friendly I don't speak any Spanish I'm horrible with languages so I know I can be frustrating but everyone I interacted with so patient and kind also it's summer here and it's like 70° outside it's such a beautiful city I didn't get to see any of the sights I actually want to go see some pyramids little ways outside the city I didn't get to do that this time hopefully get to stay longer next time because this is a magical City it's so beautiful summer 72° outside I mean it rains but rain is nice rain makes you hungrier I don't know if that last one is true but I think for me it is all right I got to finish e go back to the hotel and go to bed yeah super super early flight tomorrow and it's always all the place I went to listed down below for you guys thank you all so much for watching until we eat again see you later