#santo-taco

#santo-taco

The Greenwich Village location at 94 University Place, at East 12th Street, is opening on Saturday, October 18. Its menu of corn tortilla tacos will include that steak trompo, where the meat is sliced from the spit, as well as new ones, such as a shrimp with salsa macha. Later on, the Union Square restaurant will have margaritas and micheladas and the ability to add mezcal to aguas frescas.

Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, conventional wisdom has long held that New York City simply isn't a taco town. Pablito's Taqueria, in Sunset Park; Taqueria Al Pastor, in Bushwick; the Birria-Landia truck in Jackson Heights; Taqueria Sinaloense, in the Bronx, with its shrimp-packed tacos gobernador -these places aren't secrets. Their businesses thrive; their customers are profoundly well served. Recently, however, something has shifted: