Tacombi

One beautiful summer day in NYC my friend from Stockholm came to visit. In Soho she felt like having fish tacos, and knew just the place. Just that place happened to not exist anymore. Wandering the streets of Soho, we asked some local bartenders where to get good fish tacos. They told us the place to go is Tacombi. Difficult to find, and only locals know about it. Sounded perfect.

The place was difficult to find, it is litterary a hole in the white wall on Elisabeth street as you approach the corner of Houston. Easy to miss. Technically it's not Soho, it's Nolita, but same general area.

The most stunnig feature of the place is that inside the restaurant there's a old Wolksvagen van. This van is used as the Taco kitchen.

This place has the best home made chips, and home made guacamole I have ever tasted. No doubt about it. The tacos are fairly small, so I would order two for lunch, three for dinner. Also the great thing about this place, is all tacos, and chips are 100% corn. That means gluten free!  Depending on the server, they recommend different tacos. My favorite was by far the Veracruzana fish taco, and Shrimp a la diabla.

Another seriously cool thing about this place, is that there is no coca cola, sprite, or any other non-mexican soda. The guys here make their own Horchata and Aqua de Dìa daily. I fell in love with their Horchata. I also fell in love with the servers, the owner, everyone and everything about this place, including the food. It became my go-to place.

Prices are low, any lunch will be around $10. Taco's are $3-$4 each, sodas $1,5. The good thing about this place is you set your own price range. If you have more tacos, it's more expensive. You can just have a snack for $4 if you like.