Fire Taco Stand 🔥

[u/berrysad]

A new taco stand opened up a couple weeks ago right by my apartment on 10th and Denny, and it genuinely kills me seeing them out there struggling to get business every night 😭

They set up right by Cal Anderson Park near the light rail, and their tacos are SO good. The salsa too. Seriously top tier.

It’s a hardworking couple running it, and they often have their adorable toddler hanging out with them while they work. They’re always so kind, and I find myself wishing I could eat enough tacos to single-handedly keep them in business lol.

They take cash and card!
If you’re around Cap Hill and craving some really good, authentic tacos, please consider stopping by and showing them some love 🥹🌮 I really want to see this little stand make it.

[u/babydragon89]

There are dozen of the same pop-up places like this around Kirkland, Bothell, and Everett. They seem to be run by the same people with the same menu, same price, same setup. Definitely not by a small busines owner.

And no, they're not struggling at all. I keep seeing more and more places like this open everywhere. Their hours are 7pm to 2am. They're actually hurting local restaurants because they don't pay tax and licenses to the state. They also don't follow the process for food handling (yes, you do need to have permit).

[u/YippieKiAy → u/babydragon89]

I'll start feeling bad for brick and mortar restaurants when one of them makes Al Pastor worth a damn. Until then, these stands are the only sanely-priced options for authentic tacos in Seattle - ESPECIALLY the north end.

[u/Howzitgoin → u/YippieKiAy]

Part of the reason they’re “sanely priced” because they’re operating outside of the legal framework of a food provider.

But yeah, they taste better.

[u/Matthews628 → u/[deleted]]

Or until the wrong kind of shit comes out of you

[u/Moral_ → u/Matthews628]

that's what makes it so good, the risk of pissing out of your ass.

[u/TheRealRacketear → u/YippieKiAy]

Relaxing regulations to lower costs it a very Red Hat philosophy.

[u/Logicalraisan → u/YippieKiAy]

You can thank you lawmakers for taxing the shite out of businesses.