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"If you’ve gone marauding in Belltown in the last few years, surely you’ve stopped for a late-night snack at Situ Tacos, Lupe Flores’s colorful stand inside the Jupiter Bar. Flores, whose ancestry is Mexican and Lebanese, makes tacos the way her grandmother Dolores did — sutured together with toothpicks and deep-fried, with fillings like hushwe (ground beef and browned butter), garlic mashed potato, and broiled harissa-kissed cauliflower with cilantro chickpea mash. Well, in May she moved out into her own spot in Ballard, taking over the old Bitterroot BBQ slot, and she’s added boozy slushies and rolled taquitos to the mix. Flores is also the undisputed queen of soup in this town, and you absolutely cannot go wrong with whatever soup she happens to be serving. There’s a meat option and a veggie option, they’re both different every day, and they’re always spectacular." - Meg van Huygen, Harry Cheadle
