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2020 S. Parker Road Denver, CO 80231

303-671-2986

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Westword
Recommended
Best Taco
Award Winner 2009

Cuisine(s): Mexican

Hours: Sun,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 10am-7pm

Price: $
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash

Features: Takeout

Serving: Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Lunch
Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Lot Available

Description

The menu at this strip-mall operation is a greatest-hits list of everything there is to love about street-level Mexican food, plus a few surprises (Mexican consomme?). But the best item is the torta: messy, dripping, delicious and offered in several variations, including the D.F., served "combinación que usted quiera" and jamon -- sliced ham stacked on a grilled and lardy Mexican sandwich roll with chopped lettuce, avocado and a wet slurry of a sauce involving smoky-hot chipotles and mayonnaise.

2009 | Best Taco

Sometimes the simplest spots are best, and it doesn't get much simpler than Tacos D.F. Basically a taco truck parked indoors, Tacos D. F. hands you the best tacos in the city, hands-down, through a hole in the back wall. It cooks up plenty of other things (soups and stews, tortas and burritos), but tacos are the kitchen's true pride -- filled with meats hot off the grill that need nothing more than a squeeze of lime or maybe a touch of handmade salsa to be perfect. The asada and the... More »
2008 | Best Hole-in-the-Wall

Tacos D.F. began its life as a taco truck -- a great taco truck that worked the fertile territory along South Parker Road. Although it now has a roof, walls and a real address, it isn't anything more than a great taco truck with a roof, walls and a real address. In keeping with a neighborhood lonchera, all orders are taken through a literal hole in the wall -- a window crudely hacked through the back wall that divides the dining floor from the small kitchen. Through this hole, you... More »
2008 | Best Torta

At Tacos D.F., a former taco-truck-turned-restaurant-proper, the most extreme torta on the board might be the cubano -- a monstrous thing made of ham, milanesa, cheese, beans, lettuce and a whole hot dog, split lengthwise and seared on the grill. But the best is the simple ham with avocado: ham stacked thick on a soft, lardy bun with sliced avocado, shredded lettuce, tomato and a chile-spiked dressing that's like a rémoulade after a semester spent hitchhiking through Chihuahua.... More »
2007 | Best Taco

Simplicity. In the food world, this is an often overlooked attribute. But not at Tacos D.F. When you order an asada taco here, you get a generous pile of chopped, marinated carne asada taken fresh off the grill (along with whatever grilled onions were stuck to it) and wrapped in a fresh tortilla. That's it. But that's more than enough. The flavor is amazing -- blood and char and caramelized-onion sweetness -- and though many varieties of salsa are available at the repurposed salad bar, the... More »
2007 | Best Dinner for $10 (for two)

You might recognize the name "Tacos D.F." It was painted on the side of a great lonchera that once prowled the streets of Denver. Now all the pleaures of that taco truck can be found in the same spot night after night, in a little joint in the middle of a strip mall along Parker Road. The space is warm and comfortable, with one wall covered floor to ceiling with black-marker graffiti scrawled by legions of satisfied customers. Service is exceptionally quick, incredibly friendly and eager to... More »

At Tacos D.F., the torta takes over for the sandwich

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 11, 2008

American sandwich-makers have come a long way. Now that serious, heavyweight chefs have begun muscling in on the action (see my review of Masterpiece Delicatessen, page 51), a boy of eclectic appetites can easily score a Cuban, a banh mi, a beef o... More »
Tacos D.F.

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 12, 2007

Where I grew up, in upstate New York, there was no Mexican food. No tacos. No burritos. Just a Taco Bell down on Ridge Road (which did not count at all) and a few square feet of shelf space at Wegman's dedicated to Latino foods: a couple bags of s... More »

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westwordbestof | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Sometimes the simplest spots are best, and it doesn't get much simpler than Tacos D.F. Basically a taco truck parked indoors, Tacos D. F. hands you the best tacos in the city, hands-down, through a hole in the back wall. It cooks up plenty of other things (soups and stews, tortas and burritos), but tacos are the kitchen's true pride � filled with meats hot off the grill that need nothing more than a squeeze of lime or maybe a touch of handmade salsa to be perfect. The asada and the carnitas are our favorites, but depending on the day, the hour and the mood of the crew in the back, upwards of a dozen varieties might be available � every one of them fantastic, none with the least bit of pretension.

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Tacos D.F.

2020 S. Parker Road Denver, CO 80231

303-671-2986

Description

2009 | Best Taco

2008 | Best Hole-in-the-Wall

2008 | Best Torta

2007 | Best Taco

2007 | Best Dinner for $10 (for two)

At Tacos D.F., the torta takes over for the sandwich

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 11, 2008

Tacos D.F.

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 12, 2007

westwordbestof | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

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