Birria-Landia
Taco restaurant · Jackson Heights ·
Tijuana-style birria tacos, mulitas, tostadas, and consomé
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Tijuana-style birria tacos, mulitas, tostadas, and consomé
"Few tacos in New York City can draw the same nonstop line as the crunchy, juicy, umami-packed birria tacos from Birrialandia. Slow-cooked beef (no goat birria here) is plopped into golden tortillas, which can then be dunked into consommé so thick and rich the surface is slicked with oil. The OG truck is in Jackson Heights (always a promising origin story), but there are now locations in Williamsburg and the LES." - Kat Chen
"Birria-Landia makes the city’s best birria, full stop. This Tijuana-style truck certainly didn’t invent birria, and it wasn’t the first NYC place serving it—but this place gave birria the headliner status it always deserved. There’s always going to be a line outside of their brightly-lit trucks, located in a few neighborhoods across the city besides this Jackson Heights original. The menu is tight, focused, and flawless. Order a few of the tacos on broth-dipped tortillas, and dunk them into a cup of the mysteriously rich consome. First, you’ll taste lime, then tender meat, then adobo, then dripping fat, with everything melting together in your unworthy mouth." - neha talreja, kenny yang, carina finn koeppicus, willa moore, will hartman
"This Tijuana-style spot is a New York City landmark, like the Statue of Liberty, except it’s a truck under the subway track in Jackson Heights. Birria-Landia now has four other locations from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, and they still make the city’s best birria. Everything on the menu (tacos, mulitas, tostadas, and consomé) is bolstered by tangy, mildly spicy stew. Take your crunchy-soft tortilla filled with beef and dip it in some consomé. What happens is a sea change. The word delicious seems inadequate." - willa moore, bryan kim, will hartman, neha talreja, carlo mantuano, sonal shah
"When this truck pulled up to Jackson Heights in 2019, it was laden with beef birria tacos prepared in the style of Tijuana. Years later, there are still just four items on the menu — tacos, mulitas, tostadas, and cups of consomé — that draw crowds late into the night. The truck is operated by José Moreno, former chef at Del Posto, and his brother Jesús, who have since opened further locations elsewhere in Queens and in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Birria-Landia makes the city’s best birria, full stop. This Tijuana-style spot is a New York City landmark, like the Statue of Liberty, except it’s a truck under a set of subway tracks in Jackson Heights, and it’s much less of a hassle to get to. (They have four more locations, including Williamsburg.) Each of the items on their menu—tacos, mulitas, tostadas, and consomme—is bolstered by tangy, mildly spicy, and mysteriously deep stew. First, you’ll taste lime, then tender meat, then adobo, then dripping fat, with everything melting together in your unworthy mouth. Make sure to dip your crunchy-soft, beef-filled tortilla in your cup of consomme. The word “delicious” seems somehow inadequate." - hannah albertine, nikko duren, carlo mantuano, will hartman
