chepe m.
Yelp
I will always go out of my way to try a new taco truck or stand especially if its got good reviews and the food looks legit, I just happened to be in the Roseville/Rocklin area with a couple of hours to kill and an empty stomach, so I was sitting in a parking lot looking for something good. And to be honest I wasn't even looking for tacos, but tacos found me! Even though it looks like it inland and would take some time to get there, its really not. Super easy to get to and hard to miss, its sitting on the side of the road in front of a field. I was excited, this is the kind of place I like.
At new places, I like to get a feel for how the meats and flavors or in their simplest forms, and to me thats the taco, tortilla, meat, and some onions with cilantro. You can tell a lot on about a place just with tacos, is the meat going to be dry? is it going to be bland? chewy? The meat sets the tone for every other menu item. So I usually get a good variety of tacos, before I dig in I take a little bit of meat from each taco and try it on its own before its covered up with salsa and onions. I ended up with quesabirra, carne asada, pollo, abodoba, and carnitas.
the birria taco was a little thin on the meat and cheese side, but the meat was moist and had that good birria stew flavor, I wish there was a little bit more to it but it was a good way to start of the sampler. next up was the carne asada, the meat was nice and tender and also had good flavor, the pollo was on par with the carne asada also, they used some good seasoning to make it stand out and not get lost, but the stand outs were the abodoba and the carnitas, if I wasn't already getting full I would of gotten a couple more of the last 2!
I have noticed that some taco trucks and stands have started to raise their prices but the quality of the food doesn't justify the prices, I am happy to say that Barrios was priced well and the quality and flavor is better than a lot of the more expensive places I have been to.
Would I go back? 100%! I am now looking forward to finding myself in that area again, and hopefully sooner than later.