Tacos Gaucho / 2 Ladies Street Cart

People that are afraid to eat yummy foods prepared in a truck make me laugh. Personally I think that it is probably so much easier to be clean and obey Department of Health inspection codes (and employ overall cleanliness) in a small truck because there’s less space to BE nasty.
I do get a *little* nervous about when there is only one person running a truck because I wonder to myself «what do you do when nature calls?!» — but when there’s more than 1 person you can just switch it up and take turns during non-​peak hours so that brings me to these two wonderful ladies…
These ladies really know what they’re doing and they put together some awesome street tacos!
Their steak ones couuuuuuuuld stand to use more meat, but their chicken and carnita ones are pretty outstanding! They’re also a bargain at $ 2.00 per taco with the amount of filling and TLC that goes into preparing these suckers!
They’ve got fresh limes on stand-​by for you to go ahead and customize how much of it you want drizzled on your meat (bwhahahahaha, that sounded dirty — it stays –_​-​) and I like a lot of it so for me this is fantastic!
I never been here drunk, always sober to my review is purely me being sober while eating em’ so they’ve gotta be great… I’d probably explode out of joy if I noshed on these while inebriated, haha!

I frequent this lovely food cart whenever I’m drinking up the block at LaTerraza.
The first review is pretty spot on, except for a few corrections…
carnitas is PORK
Cecina is a salted beef
Bistec is just small pieces of steak meat
Aside from that, yea. What he said. Quick, easy, delicious. It isnt taco bell, so you won’t get the runs from this place, but they also usually have Mexican and American sodas to go along with your deeee-​licious tacos.
Quicker, cheaper, and more satisfying than spending a few bucks on empanadas that will leave you hungry an hour later.
These ladies don’t really speak English, so you can point to what you want, or try you choice at asking them for chicken, pork, beef. They are asked frequent enough to understand those.
Oh, and if you don’t like it spicy just say «no picante»

For those of you crying about how you can’t find an authentic Mexican taco place in NY, all I have to say is:
Are you frickin kidding?
Walk along a 30 block stretch on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens starting from 74^th St. — 103^rd St. and every other block is an authentic Mexican or Latin eatery including numerous tacquerias and taco street carts.
Take the 7 train to Queens and get off at 74^th St. and Roosevelt Ave. and just walk. You would swear you were in Mexico or Latin America.
Most tacos at a store front will run $ 2.50 — $ 3.50. A taco from the street cart will be $ 2.
Now for my review …
Tacos Gaucho aka 2 Ladies Tacos is the best taco you can get from a street cart in Jackson Heights. One lady takes your order and collects the cash. The other lady grills the meats for your taco.
Just take the 7 train to the 82^nd St. stop and walk up the street. Technically, the street cart is located on Roosevelt and a small street called Baxter. Baxter sits in between 83^rd St. and 84^th St. The tacos here are better than the carts by 75^th St.
They only sell soft tacos served one at a time on a paper plate. In the tradition of Mexican tacos, 2 tortillas are heated on the flat top grill with the topping spooned on top. You will be asked if you want everything on it («Con todo?»). The toppings include raw diced onions, cilantro, and a squirt of an avocado sauce.
The very small ledge /​counter also has fresh lime, radish, dried hot peppers and 2 types of home made hot sauce that you can self serve.
Most locals will rest their tacos on the ledge and eat the tacos right there. If you order more than 1 taco, they will serve you as you finish.
Here are the choices:
Carnitas — beef
Bistec — beef
Oreja — ear
Chorizo — spicy ground pork almost like chili
Lengua — diced tongue
Pollo — chicken
The beef options are a bit tough but seem the most popular. I prefer the tongue or the chorizo with raw onion, a squirt of lime and a little bit of hot sauce. Who doesn’t like a little tongue slipped in their mouth?
They seem to be in the same spot almost every day including weekends for lunch and early evenings. I’m not sure about Mondays though.
If you plan on going to see the Mets or catch a few US Open tennis matches, hop off the train and grab a quick snack. The food will be better and the money you save will go towards those $ 10 beers at the stadium.
You can even get it to go («Para Llevar» /​Par-​ra Yev-​var).
Cheers!
N