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on Cubbon St. between Main and Sycamore streets, on Pomona St. between Main and Sycamore Santa Ana, CA 92701

714-655-3253

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OC Weekly
Recommended
Best Taco
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Mexican

Hours: Daily 9am-10pm

Price: $
Payment Types: cash

Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly

Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: None

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: No Parking

Description

These taco trucks feature 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 chicharrón 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.

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 »

No. 24: Tripas Tacos at Alebrijes Grill

By Shuji Sakai | Mon, September 12, 2011

Awww, tacos from Alebrijes again? Yes, kids, we're going back to Santa Ana's pink taco truck, but this time, we're not getting one of their enormous, exotic creations piled high with six componen... More »
#81: Quesadilla Chilanga at Alebrije's Grill

By Shuji Sakai | Thu, June 23, 2011

Since nobody could guess the exact name of last week's Guess Where dish, I'll tell you now. It's a quesadilla chilanga from the pink Alebrije's lonchera parked on Cubbon and Main Street in Santa... More »
[Hole in the Wall] Tasty Battleships at Alebrije's Grill Taco Trucks, Parked in Santa Ana

By | Thu, July 23, 2009

Of Taco Trucks and BattleshipsYou’ll have to read my cover story to understand why these distinctively pink camiones are the Mendez v. Westminster of OC taco trucks; here, we talk food. You can find the usual suspects of the genre at Alebrije’s—ta... More »

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Alebrije's Grill

on Cubbon St. between Main and Sycamore streets, on Pomona St. between Main and Sycamore Santa Ana, CA 92701

714-655-3253

Description

2011 | Best Taco

2010 | Best Old-School Food Truck

By Shuji Sakai | Mon, September 12, 2011

By Shuji Sakai | Thu, June 23, 2011

By | Thu, July 23, 2009