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Alebrije's Grill
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E. Cubbon St & S Main St. Santa Ana, CA 92701

714-655-3253 

 

E. Cubbon St & S Main St. Santa Ana CA 92701

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  • Mexican
    Daily 9am-10pm
    $ $
    cash
  • Casual
    Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
    Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
    None
  • Accepted, Not Accepted
    No Parking, Street
Description

This taco truck features great Mexico City cuisine, but the true treasure can be found in the tacos acorazados, a specialty of Cuernavaca, Morelos that lives up to the heft of its name (acorazado is a battleship). The taco acorazado is simple: massive corn tortilla, rice, and your meat. Alebrije's makes it with milanesa, and this is the richest taco I've tasted, more so that chicharrĂ³n tacos: imagine fluffy rice, eggy breaded beef, and a tortilla the thickness of a key fob, and you'll understand why another meal isn't necessary for the day if you eat Alebrije's taco acorazado for breakfast-and you should.








  • 2012 | Best Mexican Restaurant

    Yes, Alebrije's Grill is technically a lonchera, and we have a separate category for those. But fuck segregation: No Mexican chef does more satisfying food than Albert Hernández, who makes the best Mexico City-style food in the county--a thousand manifestations of masa, ranging from gargantuan mulitas to chilango-style quesadillas filled with mushrooms, grilled pineapple slices, ham and creamy quesillo. But Hernández is also not bound by regional limits, embracing other... More »

  • 2011 | Best Taco

    Last year, we named the Alebrije's truck's taco acorazado the best dish in Orange County, and it could top Best Of lists for decades to come, not just because of its story--a regional speciality of Cuernavaca, whose residents have a stranglehold on Orange County's lonchera industry, but concocted here by Albert Hernandez, a native of Guanajuato who helped fight for taco-truck rights years ago--but because of its architectural splendor. Behold, a handmade corn tortilla as long and... More »

  • 2010 | Best Old-School Food Truck

    Long before it got all tied up with Twitter and Facebook, before it became fashionable, old-school food trucks such as Alebrije's Grill scratched out a living, going from to industrial park to industrial park, filling a simple but noble demand: to feed those who only have a precious 30 minutes for lunch. But even as it serviced these day toilers, it was called every name in the book, the tamest of them being "roach coach." You must wonder what it thinks of Kogi and the rest of... More »

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    #81: Quesadilla Chilanga at Alebrije's Grill

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    Thu, July 23, 2009

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