I can’t believe that all my life I have never heard of birria tacos until these past few months. Where have I been my whole life?! I have been depriving myself of these savory, decadent tacos!!! Thanks to SGV Eats, someone shared delicious looking birria tacos from Las Marias on Huntington in Monrovia. They were 4 birria tacos (or they call it quesotacos) for $10.
It took me long enough but eventually we found a weekend where we had no cooking planned and an empty fridge.. so why not try these birria tacos?!
When we stepped in, it is a small place with chairs and tables packed away obviously. But you enter this small Mexican place and overwhelmed by such a savory aroma in the air. In that moment, I knew this place would be good. We ordered 12 birria tacos for my mom, Vince and me. I was kind of able to watch how they make the tacos because the door to the kitchen was open. They cook the tortillas on the grill, add their delicious TENDER meat on with shredded cheese and white onions and pan fry it so that the melted cheese also added a crispy coat to the tortilla.
The amazing thing about these birria tacos are that each order comes with a cup of consomme broth. This consomme is the stew that the meat was brewed and cooked in so it retains a lot of the meat flavor. You either dip the tacos in before each bite or you can slurp a spoonful of broth after you take a bite of the taco. The best part is chewing and indulging in the taco with the broth in your mouth. Yummy!
Look at how decadent this taco is! The cheese really makes it..
And that consomme broth is so thick and flavorful, it is like a stew almost! It was thick so it held onto the taco pretty well.
You know.. I was taught that birria was originally goat meat but after some Googling, I think birria means Mexican meat stew.. I think you can use any meat? I didn’t ask this place what birria meat they used because I thought I would be able to guess it, but I can’t!
They also serve other tacos and burritos with other meats, but I think this place is known for the birria! 🙂 This place definitely hit the guilty hunger spot when I was craving something delicious, decadent, flavorful and savory.
