Somewhere in there is a hot dog.* Went to the newly opened brick version of the very first food truck in this area.

Somewhere in there is a hot dog.* Went to the newly opened brick version of the very first food truck in this area. Very food truck - it started serving some authentic tacos and some "fusion" tacos. Mostly it serves non-Mexican tacos and burritos.

Anyway, they opened a for real restaurant version with a few other things on the menu, also a bar. The bar sounds like they have interesting things (i.e. cocktails), if heavy on pushing the mezcal. One of the things they added for the restaurant was a "Sonoran Dog". A hot dog wrapped in bacon in a toasted bun with shredded cabbage, diced tomatoes, cilantro, onions, a mayo sauce made with their "rocket sauce", a salsa verde with avocado type vinaigrette sauce, and optional "rocket sauce", which is their house hot sauce.

You can only kind of tell there's bacon flavor-wise under all that sauce, but it's a perfectly cromulent example of the kind of crazy hot dog with toppings that places like Japadog popularized. It's turns out it helps a lot that the bun is toasted, although normally I'd be kind of turned off by that.

The place gets very crowded most of the time and is a weird mix of hipster and re-gentrification. Which explains the truly bizarre and offensive person who tried to put their coat down on me while I was sitting there even though there were plenty of empty seats at the time. I'm pretty sure there was something not quite right about them based on the response when I said, "Excuse me." Hey, if you're gonna have to deal with that, it's part of the atmosphere. Also, it's almost all communal seating, so you kind of can't not sit stuck right by other people when it's busy. Weirdos who dispute Newton do not improve my opinion of this type of arrangement.

They have a couple of hipster tacos I might try in future, if I could find a less busy time when I might be able to snag one of the rare separate seating spots. To their odd credit, even though the tacos are nouveau, they went into business with verifiable Mexicans and make their own corn masa and tortillas. There is nixtamalization involved. You can see them being made while you stand in line. They are also available for purchase separately.

*yes, I eventually left the house.