La Cocinita

So if you want a late night bowl of delicious food this food truck will never disappoint. The chicken is flavor able in combination with the beans and rice you cannot go wrong. Best Mexican food truck I’ve had for sure. If you are drinking at Rendezvous make sure you try this truck for it will not disappoint.

The bowl is the best! Service is quick, efficient and friendly. Black beans n rice with beef… Yum! Only downside is it was not on Loyola on Monday!

Love the arepas and how filling they are! Homemade and delicious, I love ending my Mid-​City Farmer’s Market shopping on Thursdays here.
With fresh and abundant ingredients, it’s no surprise that there’s usually a line when I get there. Most people were happily perusing the menu while waiting. Like how simple the menu is. The longest part is reading the list of sauces.
Last time I went there I got the rich and flavorful pork in the arepas. The sauces were the chipotle cream and the roasted red pepper sauce. Both were exactly the right textures and flavors to coat and enrich the tacos. For less than $ 10, the two meat-​filled tacos were so big, I usually can’t finish them! No matter how hungry I am whenever I arrive at the truck, the arepas always fill me up.

I love this food truck. I always get the arepas and they are just amazing. I don’t really know what else to add other then I have never had a bad meal from them!

The Arepas!!! The Tacos! THE SALSAS, reminds me of home! Everything tastes sooooo delicious. FETE!

I recently visited New Orleans in June 2015, and we wanted something very local for lunch! I had googled food trucks, and this place was one of the two places we tried. The food was absolutely amazing, we ordered the burri-​taco – vegetarian, with spicy roasted jalapeño pepper salsa. For me the salsa was not super spicy, but the flavors made up for that. It was absolutely delicious! If you are in the area, please do your self a favor and go eat here! Amazing!

Love, love, love this truck! My favorite things on the menu are the lechon, black bean and queso fresco arepas along with the fish tacos (when on the menu).
What really sets these guys apart are the great sauces. Try the guasacaca, chipotle crema and the VERY SPICY roasted jalapeño pepper salsa.
Having La Cocinita as a permanent fixture of the Bywater food scene is a welcome addition.

Oh my gosh!!! I had been dying to try this place! I wanted the Arepas but they had ran out already, but that was fine. I had their tacos and my friend had the burri-​taco. I had mine with the Pollo Estofado and so were the burri-​tacos. Let me say this: DELICIOUS!!! Oh my gosh it was worth the $ 20!!! Freaking amazing! I can’t wait to try the Arepas, and believe me I will! I super highly recommend La Cocinita food truck!!!

Waited in line for a while during Sunday parades to get me some tacos. I got the Lechon (braised pork) with chipotle crema, and a side of rice and beans (free with Unilocal check-​in!!). The tacos (you get 3) had excellent flavor and were constructed very well.
The rice and beans were pretty plain, but I liked the queso fresco on top.
All in all, a good food truck, and incredibly convenient. But I’ll take a real restaurant any day.

Stopped here on the way to work for lunch. I had a bowl with chicken rice bean cheese and a little bit of all the sauces. It was the best thing I’ve had in a while. Really spot on truck!

Very tasty and well seasoned chicken tacos. However a plate with three very small tacos was almost $ 9! ($ 8.80 to be exact). They had little chicken and lots of cilantro-​flavored coleslaw.
I was still hungry after eating those tacos for lunch, so unless I’m really desperate, I will probably skip La cocinita truck next time.

Pretty good food truck fare. The braised pork was tender and flavorful. The black beans were a little bland and I wasn’t really able to taste the rice as there wasn’t much in my bowl. I liked the variety of salsas and had the creamy cilantro and the stupid hot salsas, which blended nicely.
The portions are tiny, so I’d definitely go double meat; however, at $ 11 for a very small bowl that is probably equal in flavor to Chipotle’s carnitas bowl with half the amount of food and at 50% more in cost, I’m not sure I’d be tempted to go back. That being said, I haven’t seen too many Chipotle’s in NOLA, so if I’m craving a bowl, this might be my go to place.

Good food, can’t complain.

I decided to get lunch from their food truck today. Pretty good stuff!
I had seen the quesadilla listed on their menu online, but I did not see it on their menu on the truck. I asked the guy about it and he said he could make it. So, I got the chicken quesadilla. In the online picture, it was one big that they cut up into 3 – 4 slices. The guy today gave me 3 smaller individual ones. I liked that it was the 3 smaller individual ones. So that worked out. The chicken had good flavor and the green sauce that came with it, was good too.
I have found that food truck prices in general tend to be on the higher side. It seems that $ 9 tends to be the average amount for things. They charged $ 9 for my order today. So, it’s not something I will get too often, but it’s nice once in awhile.

La Cocinita offers Latin inspired food that is fresh, and darn good.
Sometimes when I look back at my older reviews I get pretty embarrassed. Since my last review was a bit of a half-​assed effort where I couldn’t even remember the names of food, I’ve decided to update it.
The proliferation of food trucks in New Orleans is a trend that I fully support. They offer a great, quick alternative to brick and mortar restaurants and I couldn’t be happier about them. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I will explain why this truck is one of my favorites.
Since my first visit, I have visited La Cocinita several times. My most recent visit was today, and a direct result of Angie T.‘s recent review. In her review she mentioned fish tacos and a chipotle crema that sounded divine. Unfortunately for me, they were out of the fish today, but did have brisket. For $ 11, I ended up with three small brisket tacos (with the chipotle crema) and a side of beans and rice (also with that sauce).
When I took the first bite into that taco, I knew I had made a good choice. The thin strands of beef combined with that perfectly spicy sauce really went well together. If you don’t like spice, I would avoid the sauce because it was legit spicy unlike many sauces which claim chipotle as their main ingredient. Remembering their beans to be slightly under-​seasoned from my last visit, I had them add the same sauce to the top of the beans. It made what I thought before to be an average bean dish, significantly better. I think what I am trying to say is that the chipotle sauce could be added to a leather shoe and it would instantly become a great dish. really, it’s that good.
So what prevents La Cocinita from being a five star truck? Not much, but my last visit I tried the Cuban sandwich and was not that impressed. Maybe if I had added the chipotle sauce it would have been better.
If you’re in the mood for some great Latin food truck food, find La Cocinita.

When my dad was in the hospital for two weeks I was there everyday. Now, I have to give props to University Hospital for their food because it’s great for a hospital cafeteria… really great. But eating there everyday grew old and grew old fast. There aren’t many other options for lunch or dinner unless you’re willing to drive which means losing your parking spot and possibly getting lost and/​or shanked. It’s not the best neighborhood.
Enter La Cocinita. I saw this truck from the window of my dad’s room one day and I hauled ass down there. The man and woman who were working here were so sweet and patient with me trying to decide what I was going to order. Everything sounded so good. I ended up getting two tacos. Fish tacos with chipotle crema and chicken tacos with garlic sauce. Ummm. Yeah. Can you say yum?
I loved it so much and even got a free side of rice and black beans just for checking in. Yay! I can’t wait to go back!

La Cocinita is always delicious. I’ve had their tacos a few times when they’re over at NOLA Brewing and had them just tonight when they were outside of Tipitina’s.
They keep their menu small and have quality ingredients. My favorite was the Venezuelan brisket on burritacos (flour tortillas with melted cheese and then the typical ingredients).
They always have friendly staff and take credit cards — plus in my book! One of the best food trucks in NOLA — as told by their recent win of the local Vendy Award!

This was my first time trying an arepa and I wasn’t dissapointed. I got the «Lechon» or pulled pork, which was marinated to perfection in lime, jalapeño, and cumin.
It was phenomenal. Just phenomenal…

Way past time to update my review. I usually eat at this yummy food truck about once a week when they are parked neat my work. Rachel & Benoit treat me like family even saving me special items that they think I’ll like.
The food is always tasty & fresh. They offer innovative vegetarian options abd even got me to enjoy roasted turnips today.
Their battles to get food truck legislation modernized in NOLA means that we will all reap the benefits.
Bonus check out Chef Benoit on Padma’s Picks for TopChef New Orleans (
) episode 5: Food Truck Wars.

Yay! I got to try another food truck.
I was STARVING when I ran into this truck outside of Rendezvous on Magazine. I’m always excited to try new things, so I walked up and looked over the menu. I decided to get the lechon (braised pork) in a white corn tortilla with chipotle crema and avocado. It didn’t take long before my food was ready, even though there were a good number of people there.
I would say the food here is good if you have nothing to compare it to. I compared it to taceaux loceaux, which is my usual «go to» food truck for Mexican food. The pork had a lot of flavor, but the meal itself was missing something. I did enjoy it, and I would go back, but taceaux loceaux is still my first choice.

¡Arepitas! ¡Mi amor!