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Taco Palenque
Taco Palenque has no equal. Anywhere.
Fast. Cheap. Friendly. Tasty. Loud. Festive. Fun. With a mega-giga-tera-exa-salsa bar and as many free chips as you want.
This little slice o' heaven is the brainchild of Juan Francisco Ochoa—a guy who, thirty-some years ago in Sinoloa, started up a little restaurant chain called El Pollo Loco.
Maybe you've heard of it. Perhaps there's one across the street from you, and next door also. If chickens were as plentiful as coffee beans there'd probably be more Pollo Locos than there are Starbucks. I've seen one in Japan. The world is crazy about that mad, mad, mad, mad, mad chicken.
Juan Pancho is evidently the brains behind the greatest concepts in Mexican fast food—which, if I may say so, makes him the greatest genius in fast food, any food, anywhere, any time. I mean, two words say is all: Taco Palenque. McAllen is blessed with two of them This is the reason you always see McAllen atop those "Most Liveable Cities" lists, year after year.
See, it's the salsa bar in the center of the restaurant, with seven varieties all made right there, plus two kinds of onions all chopped up for you, and radishes, cilantro, cabbage, jalapeños, serranos...take as much as you want, go ahead.
Homemade tortillas, too. When I go there I usually get a bowl of beans (right, it's an homage to Culture Clash) for like a buck and a half. By the time I load up on the other stuff I stagger out the door full to bursting. I don't know how Juan Pancho makes any money off peple like me.
In the ninety minutes or so I spend there I will have heard Vicente Fernandez, Ana Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt and a dozen others booming over the sound system.
Below is a picture of what will be my final meal at Taco Palenque for a while. My last day at work, if you can call it work, and it was my privilege to dine with some of the finest folks in the Rio Grande Valley.
Taco Palenque
August 21, 2008
Taco Palenque has no equal. Anywhere.Fast. Cheap. Friendly. Tasty. Loud. Festive. Fun. With a mega-giga-tera-exa-salsa bar and as many free chips as you want.
This little slice o' heaven is the brainchild of Juan Francisco Ochoa—a guy who, thirty-some years ago in Sinoloa, started up a little restaurant chain called El Pollo Loco.
Maybe you've heard of it. Perhaps there's one across the street from you, and next door also. If chickens were as plentiful as coffee beans there'd probably be more Pollo Locos than there are Starbucks. I've seen one in Japan. The world is crazy about that mad, mad, mad, mad, mad chicken.
Juan Pancho is evidently the brains behind the greatest concepts in Mexican fast food—which, if I may say so, makes him the greatest genius in fast food, any food, anywhere, any time. I mean, two words say is all: Taco Palenque. McAllen is blessed with two of them This is the reason you always see McAllen atop those "Most Liveable Cities" lists, year after year.
See, it's the salsa bar in the center of the restaurant, with seven varieties all made right there, plus two kinds of onions all chopped up for you, and radishes, cilantro, cabbage, jalapeños, serranos...take as much as you want, go ahead.
Homemade tortillas, too. When I go there I usually get a bowl of beans (right, it's an homage to Culture Clash) for like a buck and a half. By the time I load up on the other stuff I stagger out the door full to bursting. I don't know how Juan Pancho makes any money off peple like me.
In the ninety minutes or so I spend there I will have heard Vicente Fernandez, Ana Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt and a dozen others booming over the sound system.
Below is a picture of what will be my final meal at Taco Palenque for a while. My last day at work, if you can call it work, and it was my privilege to dine with some of the finest folks in the Rio Grande Valley.
Posted by Bruce Jensen on August 21, 2008 | Comments (2)
August 25, 2008
In response to: Taco Palenque
Nancy Alanis commented:
In response to: Taco Palenque
Nancy Alanis commented:
Estoy 105% de acuerdo con todo este Comentario, Ademas El Sr. Ochoa tambien Tiene Un Gran Corazon ,Ademas de Un Gran Menu Y Precios Muy Accesibles.
September 5, 2008
In response to: Taco Palenque
mary commented:
In response to: Taco Palenque
mary commented:
bruce, I Taco Palenque is great but still like El Pato better -- there is a new facebook page for lovers of El Pato!
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