Thursday, March 10, 2011

Boardwalk on Bulverde: New Food Trailer Park, Tin Can Tacos

Food Trucks!  No longer are the day’s of the “Roach Coaches”, food trucks are a new trend now, bringing elevated and fresh cuisine idea’s to you street food style.  In this trailer park there are seven food trucks, but I could only fit two in my stomach, regretfully.  I went there specifically for Tin Can Tacos.  The owner/chef was really friendly and informative.  He is very health conscious.  His corn tortillas are all natural.  They contain no trans-fat, oil or butter.  His get’s his cilantro and other greens from a local “farmer Bob”.  I personally love when restaurant’s support their local farmers, everything is just fresher.  The owner is a definite farm to table advocate.  He explained that even in his lamb they would soon be using only grass-fed locally raised lamb.  He extends his healthy cooking to all the other menu items, again not using any oils, trans fats or butter.  The chipotle chicken is so tender and juicy, so when I called him out on that he says he uses a vegetable puree to cook it with.  Interesting.  The chicken reminds me of a dish your Hispanic grandma would cook up in the kitchen.  Very reminiscent of the tomato bouillon and cumin flavors.  The fish tacos had great texture to them.  It comes with red cabbage, cilantro, grilled fish, queso fresco and a mango peach jalapeno ranch salsa on top, wrapped in an all natural corn tortilla.  The fish was a tiny bit fishy to me, but very fresh.  I loved the pairing of the sweet mango with the slight spicy fish.  The cost was five dollars for two tacos.  In addition to the fish tacos I had the five tacos for seven dollars.  I know; five tacos?!  But these tacos are super small, maybe the size of your palm.  I didn’t like how you could only get one meat per order.  Not because I tired of the lamb, but just because as a first timer I would have liked to try other meats.  I got the lamb with a pinneable habanero salsa.  The lamb is ground and very lean.  The tacos have very earthy flavors.  The small tacos include cilantro, grilled onions and queso fresco.  “This is the healthiest taco you will every eat”- say’s owner Manny.  But here, not only do you get a healthy, guilt free meal, but no sacrifice in flavor!  Will I go back?  Yes, most definitely.

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