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[cjsadler]

I think there are supposed to be some very good taco places in old town Gaithersburg.

That's where Tacos Pepitos is. I haven't gotten around to trying any other taco places in old town yet.

[porcupine]

Also try Tacos Pepitos Bakery on East Diamond, near Russell. Nice pork tacos. The only tables, though, are on the outside, so plan on carryout.

[ferment everything]

The Adams Morgan location has a "This business is FOR SALE" sign out front

The Lengua and Carnitas tacos were delicious, as ever. I am gonna have to get up there more often now so I can try to get my fix before it gets sold.

[synaesthesia]

The Adams Morgan location is currently still open. We had the horchata and passionfruit beverages today. Apparently passionfruit is in season, and the drink was DELICIOUS. The horchata is also very good, not as powdery as a number of the ones I have tried elsewhere in DC.

[synaesthesia]

The Adams Morgan location has a "This business is FOR SALE" sign out front

Apparently it was already sold. They just kept up with the theme. So both are named plain ol' Tacos Pepito's Bakery. Just that the ownership is different.

[DMcCabe]

Burrito de Carnitas at Mexican Pepito's Bakery in Adams Morgan. This place is great and has some really authentic Mexican food...although i think that the ownership has recently changed hands. Nevertheless, grab a mandarin jarritos and you've got a delicious lunch. Also, they have a cochinita taco that is comprable to the one at Oyamel, which I find to be spectacular.

[ferment everything]

Breakfast at the Adams Morgan Tacos Pepitos Bakery (which is now called Super Taco, although the menu is almost exactly the same). Super-sweet lemonade, and a breakfast burrito with "sausage" (what actually seemed to be little grilled bits of hot dog). Meh. Hopefully just an abberation, I've never had breakfast here before. Need to return and see if the sandwiches have suffered.

(feel free to move this to a Super Taco thread, I couldn't find one about the AdMo Pepitos location)

[Waitman]

Lot of talk about Taqueria Distrito Federal and Taqueria Nacional, but I'm warming up to the taco spot with the gringo handle. Sitting across from the Safeway on Columbia Road, it's both a tacqueria/comida rapida place and a bakery offering up some tempting but heavy-looking stuff.

If first dropped in for the tortas, which are essentially immense Mexican cheesesteaks, which turned me off when I first tried them. They lack elegance and have a surfeit of bread. I avoided the place for months. But they are on the walk home and so I stopped in last week and was impressed by a taco with carnitas (less so by the beef) and the huarache* - a pizza-sized (well, a Comet Ping-pong pizza-sized) corn tortilla cooked crisp and flat and slathered with your choice of sauce and meat, and some good old crumbled queso fresco.

I stumbled in a little confused last night, and not just from happy hour. I was hungry for huitlacoche (my favorite corn smut since Hillbilly Honeys) which I recalled being featured on the Taco Oaxacan. Alas, they'd gotten new, professionally-produced menu boards and the Taco Oaxacan was eliminated either by the cook or the graphic designer. After a little Spanglish back-and-forth I did establish that there is now a quesadilla featuring the so-called "corn truffle" and so I got that.

Delish. I don't know if the huitlacoche was canned -- it was stored in liquid -- but it was about the consistency of what I had years ago at Atlantico and had flavor similar in intensity to a properly sauteed mushroom. Anyway, they laid out one of those pizza tacos, half-melted the crumbly queso (none of that gringo cheddar shit), slathered on the fungus and then folded the whole thing over into a good-sized crunchy, gooey, smutty delight. You should get yourselves some.

I woke up this morning with a craving for another one but alas, all I had was a tamale which I'd ordered by accident because my Spanglish is poor. It was immense, but a bit leaden and, to be honest, a tamale washed back with green habanero sauce and black coffee isn't the way my stomach likes to wake up.

There are a lot of other things on the spankin' new menu board that look like they need to be tried, and I will post back when I do so.

PS -- anybody else got any huitlacoche connections?


*Turns out that yes, indeed, the dish is so named because they resemble, vaguely, the sandal.

[Miami Danny]

If it makes you feel any better, the place used to have the non-gringo name Pepito's. Cafe Atlantico/Jose Andres used to have a source in Fla. for frozen huitlacoche---but I've never seen anything other than canned available retail. Oaxaca on 18th St. used to have a huitlacoche dish, but I don't remember if it had any real flavor the one time I ate there in a tequila haze. I agree that the corn smut quesadilla at Super is tops-but it used to be available only on weekends-maybe that's why it wasn't on the sign?

{Incidentally, the tortas can be pretty messy but when it comes to absorbing alcohol, cannot be beat.}

[bookluvingbabe]

Gaithersburg location looked to be closed when I drove by. For lease sign up.

I hadn't been there in ages. But I always liked knowing it was there. Shame on me for not going more often.

[frogprince]

so if i read this correctly, the adams morgan location will not be departing us anytime soon...? already lost the popeye's (sob)

[Waitman]

Tacos Pepitos in Adams Morgan is, to the best of my knowledge, [url="http://www.donrockwell.com/index.php?showtopic=9787&st=0&p=116696&hl="super%20Taco"&fromsearch=1&#entry116696"]Super Tacos[/url] these days.

[frogprince]

tacos al pastor...hmmm.... do they not bother to buy salt here though? seriously? maybe years of bus smog from the 90's on 18th has gotten to me but, really... sal?