Nick DiGiovanni - Finding The Best Taco In Los Angeles

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

Watch to the end to see what our favorite was!

If you search up the most famous food in LA, you'll likely be left with just one word, tacos. But there are over 4,000 registered taco trucks in LA and even more tacharias, so I'm going to need some help. We'll be splitting into teams of two to visit as many places as we possibly can. While Kuz and QCP will handle a bunch of spots in East LA, Linda and I will be going west. And we get going? I gotta feed the buns.

I'll call the Uber. Stop it! I got this. Hey! Hey! Hey, two Lamborghini Euruses, just like you asked, purple and gold for LA. You're the best. Hey, I don't need your money. You can pay me your respect.

Cause what I do we need a big. What's the follow? It's a jet. I need a hundred bags. Nothing more and nothing less. And the ops feel away because I'm next to my friends. Oh, yeah. So, naturally, we thought it would be a lot of fun to start all together.

And for our first location, we're going to none other than, then. Taco Bell. Word on the street is it's one of the best in LA. I can't wait to try it. It's going to be the medium for the entire day. I love their nachos. Throughout the day, we'll all be tasting at different places.

But ultimately, we'll come together at the end of the day to talk about who is the victor. What kind of taco do we even get in this? I'll be honest. Never had Taco Bell in my entire life. Is this KFC? It looks like. Whoa. Wait, are you guys Taco Bell and KFC?

Yes. Okay, good to know. That's the first. So we're a little confused. Yeah, can we get two crunchy taco Supreme? The fact that I haven't had any breakfast, this is my breakfast, is like, kind of disgusting. You got it? Cooge on the card.

All I know is Nick better be paying for Lindsay, you know what I mean? Two regular tacos, please. Get him mild sauce? You want mild sauce? Oh, one mild sauce, please. All right, Linda. You can't eat tacos without sauce. That's what makes a taco.

Shame on you, Nick. You know, I haven't had a taco from Taco Bell for a while, Lynch. Me neither. Gotta put the sauce on. Let's find the best taco in L.A. Yeah, that's pretty decent. It's actually pretty good. You've got that nice grated cheese and a pretty fresh-looking lettuce.

And the beef is seasoned really well. My one critique would be there's not a whole lot of beef. The proportions and ratios in this thing are quite off. Where's the beef? Hey, where's the beef? All right, here we go. You know there's a problem when you take a bite and you feel some movement in your stomach. Instantly.

But, you know, what am I going to say? What am I going to do? It's Taco Bell. You got what you pay for. Look at this garbage. Classless ingredients. I don't know why we did Taco Bell first. We should have did it last.

I ran out of toilet paper in my whole 1,000 of them, too. Last time when we did pizza reviews, Linge's numbers were way too high. Linger, what's your review? Nine. You guys are starting so high right out of the gates, our first place. She's got to bring it down today, but luckily, she's a Taco Connoisseur. I'm going to leave Taco Bo with a solid six and a half out of ten, and that's a really good starting score. I'm giving it a seven.

Oh, I think I got sauce on the Lamborghini. I hate when that happens. We're going to do a four tree. Ah, that's what I was going for. I was going for a solid four, but a four three is pretty nice. Our second stop is whole box. They have a very unique taco, scallop, and octopus. Do you ready? Yeah. Get your head against the seat. Okay. Oh, I'm getting pulled over. Oh, you gotta be kidding me right now. Oh, this is just the worst.

Well, I think you're a pretty noticeable car. Did you do do? Yeah, of course, I do. I do. So we rented this. Yeah, this is my car. We do all food content. I'm writing all this down. King talk about me. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I'm actually a really responsible driver usually. I almost just got a new car accident.

Sorry, how fast is he go? I'll find out. There's a Michigan Star restaurant, literally like, it's a Michelin Star restaurant? Yeah, Michigan Star Restaurant. Oh, we're going there right now. A lot of officers go there a lot, because the food is just amazing. I'm really glad you guys pull this over.

One thing we know is food. Thank you so much. Have a good one. Oh my god. So after that little snap food we are pulling up the whole box which the cops let us know has a Michelin star. Oh, this is beautiful. It's a very unassuming store, kind of randomly in this little food court. This place doesn't mess around. Could we do the Kampachi Onita Sada? Yeah. The scallop taco and one of the octopus. Got to get a bunch of the different sauces. At least according to Linja. She on you Nick. Like Linja said, part of today is all about the salsa. Oh, that's good grosa. Good deal.

That is good. It's like a spicy peanut, really spicy. Oh yeah, it hits you right there. Hicks are right in the teeth, but it's good. We know this isn't technically a taco, but because sea urchin is my second favorite food behind rotissed chicken, I figured we'd try it. Oh my god. That is really good. It's nice.

So we have the taco the quipo, the octopus taco. Oh my god. And then we have the hands-eared main diver's scallop and then we also sent one of our classic Bahavish tacos for it. Beautiful. Thank you so much. This is amazing. Lynch is in the restroom, you snooze, you lose. I can tell all the tortillas are homemade.

Fresh off the griddle, I'm gonna start with the octopus taco. I'm getting smacked all across the face and this place with flavor. Gallup taco, unbelievable. You want some octopus? No. I know this is only the second spot we visited. Obviously we had a bit of a slowdown today.

Oh, I'm getting pulled over. But I'm gonna give this a nine out of ten. I'm gonna give this a 10 out of 10. Oh. Run away to El Cabo Pepe's Beer with Tacos' fourth generation recipe. Are you kidding me? That's straight class.

Woo! Man! We're at Pippe's red tacos. Here it is. Can we get two Hoesi tacos? What was that? We're doing a little taste test. It's a whole, a whole bone marrow and a whole taco.

Something like that. Considering it's 24 bucks, two tacos. This ain't Taco Bell, no Taco Bell. We got our tacos. It's legitimately an entire bone marrow. I've never seen this before. Where do you get this at a taco truck? No way.

Just scraped in the clash. That's hot though. Mink ya. Man, bang. And it tastes a bone marrow by itself. It's fatty, flavorful. A little dip. Oh, fuck hot.

That's fire. Whoa. It's gonna slurp the bone out. That made me happy. 8 4. That's a fair school. You never know what's coming next. That's true, though.

But this is setting it high. Next up, we're hitting this taco truck that has a famous Alpasteur taco. And supposedly, they slice it right off this large yiro, which I am very excited to see. Just absolutely beautiful. Wait, wait, can I say something about it? No, no.

Cut the camera. Never had one, very excited to try it. And here it is, right along the side of a gas station. Couldn't have it any other way. There it is. Alpasteur. Dos, Alpastor, tacos. The coolest thing about this for me is,

you see this truck at this gas station. You don't expect so much. And then you look, and they have all these extremely fresh-looking toppings. You got radish. You've got these nice onions and cilantro. Lime. I mean, look how fresh the lime is.

They're not those dried out ugly pieces of lime. This is really, really fresh. Thank you. Don't think of mine. Grilled jalapeno, alpasteur. That's good. The flavor's on point. The meat is really well seasoned.

And then the best part about it for me is all the toppings are so, so fresh. I don't know if I rate this quite as high as the last one we went to. I'm gonna give it a solid 7.3. 7.5. Walk into the next spot, it's pretty close. Gotta get our steps in today. Forget it.

We arrived at tacos de canasta. I'm ready. Just two tacos de chicharonnes. Grazie. Grazie. I started speaking Italian. We just got our tacos. They look good.

Completely different than the last spot, but it's gonna be its own thing. We got something different here. Yeah, it's very low maintenance, high quality. You could tell this is authentic in Mexico. You know, over here in America, we wanna fucking mess a taco that you can't even put down your pie hole. We gotta judge this in a different level

because this is its own thing. But for what it is, the quality, man. For the rating, I'm gonna give this a solid eight two. Quality is amazing, so I'm gonna have to do the same. Eight two. Next stop is tacos, Iberia, La, Unica they are known for beeria everything Nick's got to try the romans I love how in the middle of nowhere these spots are I mean you just pull up and there's just a truck in the middle of the road what is your most famous taco Can we get two quesie tacos? Could we get two of those please and then one beer ramen please?

I'm sure Spicy or my own spicy? Spice being authentic. Oh baby look at that she also did say we can dip these in the bea ramen which we have right here and look at all that consummate that amazing broth that's in there she suggested we take these tacos and we dip them right in there before eating oh my god I like how crunchy that taco is oh and the beer yeah look at that wow let's get a little spicy salsa every single place we go we have this different salsa it's different colors it's different textures different spice levels

guys it's bug I just polish that entire taco off what's the rating Let me give that one a 9.1. Eat the whole thing like a vacuum cleaner. That beeria consummate is delicious flavorful. You have every single texture, every single flavor you could possibly want here. Delicious. We are at Moriscos El Colima.

We're getting 3 Tacos de Camarones Dorado. They're making it right in front of us, frying it right here. That's how you know it's good when they're not scared to show you what's going on. Much grazie. Caliente? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nothing, ain't nothing we haven't seen before. Oh, boom. Marome. That is something. Wow. This is coming in the 8th. That's for sure. We need to do 8.3 Marones.

It's a Clayasack taco. This is hitting the spot. I'm gonna give him 8.5. We are unwrapped to Trejo's tacos. Apparently this famous actor, Danny Trejo. Do you know him? Oh, he's always the villain in films. Apparently the tacos are not just a gimmick of his fame.

They are genuinely good and get high reviews by people. Apparently, they have a jackfruit taco. Can't wait. Yeah, can I get one fried chicken and one jackfruit? It's almost gonna be 1205. Linja's got me covered. I forgot my credit card in the car. Nick better be paying for the Lindsay, you know what I mean?

While we wait for our tacos here, this here, I haven't seen it yet, is the new Osmo pink Himalayan Salt bundle, pink grinders. Linja, you haven't seen it yet, have you? No. You ready? Can't wait. My favorite color is pink.

If you can't tell by her shirt. And now you're gonna have something to match it, Linja. Oh, look at that. Open the grinder. Oh, gosh, that's beautiful. That is awesome. Look at the color.

It's very nice. So the grinders are different now. So you have to hold the button by request of everybody. They like it better if you hold the button. We got our coarse, pink Himalayan salt. Oh, that is awesome. I mean, that's just, you want to fill it? Oh, I like that sound.

Oh my. It's like a salt cannon, Linja. There's the course right there, and then this is the flaky. And then as a throwback, I think we brought back the little grinder set from very, very early on. That's our pink Himalayan stone. And this is the little grinder holder.

You can stick that right in there and grate your stone against here. Big, big bundle of Osmo. I'll put the link in the description below. I think our tacos are ready. Why is it on the lettuce wrap? What the hell happened here? What did you order for me? I just got the fried chicken wrap.

That's what it must come with. Fried chicken taco. I'm actually going to go on with some of their house-made hot sauce too. I'm going hot sauce all day. My taste buds are evolving. The jackfruit, I'm not sure what to think. Right off the bat, I will say their lime does not look as fresh and juicy as the taco truck. It just doesn't look that good.

It's not good. It's fine, but it's just not very good. It looks dry. Thank you. It doesn't look dry. It just doesn't feel right. This is amazing. It's got substantial texture, which I wasn't expecting, and the sauce is unbelievable. I would just drink the sauce. I think Linja might have screwed me with the order a little bit. I don't know why she got herself a perfect taco and got me this. Pay for it. You get what you get. Do you rate this lower than Taco Bell? Absolutely.

Oh my god. This I do. Oh. We're at the Santa Rita Halisco taco truck. That was a mouthful. They're known for their chicken necks. I don't know about the chicken necks. I don't know about all that.

We're going to pass on the necks because we're not neck bones. We're going to do the Asada. It's a family run joint apparently. Been there since 1992. Can't wait to try. People in the neighborhood said it's class. We just arrived at Santa Rita, Halisco, tacos. I gotta go to the bathroom, like, really bad.

We're getting two Asada tacos. We haven't had any yet. I'm ready. Okay, thank you. Dude, every single place has had a different looking taco and that's what's amazing. Just wait till you get to your sister's house. Let's see her taco.

Here we go. It's hot. It feels spicy. I want my mom. I can't really taste as much because the sauce is so hot. I'm gonna have to go straight into it with a 7-6. We're gonna do a 7-8 out of than your sisters. I have three sisters.

I don't know why he does this to me. Yeah, but they have class. So they're not going after me. That made me feel better. Tacos burned our mouths. We gotta cool it off with a little pineapple juice. Everyone's telling us to get it here. Everyone's drinking it here.

They get something a little sweeter, you know what I mean? Sello. Man. So refreshing. It tastes like actual pineapple. You know what's hot when I gotta take off the hoodie. Matching the Bev with the car. How you doing?

How is it in here? Yeah. Smells like a . . Do you that? I'm gonna go ahead and take a second while we drive to change my rating from the first of the day, and I rarely do this. Taco Bell, I like you, but I am going to demote you to a flat 5 out of 10. I'll say my main differentiator is not only the salsa, but also the tortillas themselves. When I think about that Taco Bell tortilla now, it just seems so dry and stale.

Now we're in the way to Teddy's red tacos. Teddy used to apparently be an Uber driver, but he would sell tacos for fun in the weekends. And when people got in his car, they always said it smelled good, and they'd ask him what that was. So he started handing out business cars, one thing led to the next, and now he's got it. at this place. The door says push and it made me look like an idiot because it's a pole. Two Beria one broth to go. So here we have our Beria broth. We have some salsa here and then look at these Beria tacos. These are loaded up. Go ahead. Show me how it's done. Dunk that in. I don't even need to dunk this thing. What is that? I'm gonna do it anyway.

That's spicy. It's not overpowering though. Beria baby. I'm gonna give the first rating that comes to mine. 7.4 out of 10s. 8.2. Throughout the day, I think I think I think I'm our standards are going up. We're almost there. Time for the last two stops. For our next place, we're going to Karnithas El Momo. They were featured on Los Angeles Street Food, episode one.

So let's go check it out. I'm excited. The grandfather started it. Grandson's still keeping it going, which is rare to see these days. You love to see it. You love to see the family businesses. You got to support, class. What do you want to do?

The guy at the last spot told us that this was the move. So super excited for it. We're on the move. Let's get some carnitas. Do you just have two carnitas? That's at the moment we only have valley. That will work. It's unbelievable how many different tacos you get.

All unique, they all look different. Making it hard to judge. Cheers, Bouch. Salute. That's too much flavor to handle. That's a lot coming at you at one time. So he has the Pacific quality, though. What do you ate it?

You know what? Been an experience. I'm gonna give it an 86. 8 8 8. 8. That's great. Next step. Leo's taco truck. They pride themselves on having affordable tacos. I hear the Alpest store is banging.

Wait. I didn't run the light. Oh my god. I thought that was me again. I keep finding taco trucks and gas stations. Apparently that's just a big thing here. Those alpast is $4 for two tacos. That's affordable. Thank you so much. You know it's a good taco spot when your bag of salsa is heavier than your bag of tacos. This is the most unique one we've had yet, I think, when Joe. I mean the pineapple the smallest one too right wouldn't you agree oh shoot orchata is all over me sorry No, that's okay. I love orchata on me Lija you forgot something the salsa the salsa the salsa Which I think it's spicy salsa. That's way too much. It's gonna be way too spicy. I see it's okay actually This evening is really good six four five. Oh Linger Orchata rating nine

Going to our last spot, Sonoratown. They make their own tortillas, known for their conned assata, and their tripe. Tripe is a bee intestines if you don't know what that is. Here at the last spot, Sonorah Town. Let's go inside. We get two tripe tacos and how you're done? All right, how you good. Hell yeah, thank you, bro.

Turns out when you eat food on the internet, you get free food sometimes. Pretty gentleman-like, you know, all class. We got the cow intestines and a tombs. Let's try it out. Huh, crunchy. So spicy. It's like almost like bacon. Like when you get well done bacon, my mouth is on fire.

So we're gonna have to wrap this up soon. I think this is probably one of the best ones yet. They're a little crunchy texture is pretty nice. Different, crunchy, losing brain cells, but you taste it. Some of the other places was so hot you couldn't taste the thing. This is perfect. Is it 10 out of 10? Forget it.

I'm gonna say 10 out of 10. Awesome. For you guys, just some baseball caps, some of our stickers, yay. When we got pulled over earlier, they referred us to King Taco. It's a chain with 20 locations. According to the officers, it's supposed to be pretty good. The line was a little too long, so we decided to go back and meet up with the rest of the team. I bet the food is really good because of how long that line was.

Let's go meet up with the boys. Hey, what are you wearing? Huh? Oh, what? You guys didn't get hats and stickers? Did you guys have fun? Yeah. No. Yes.

It was so fun, make. You're the best. Because we already talked about our tacos all the time. I say we all finish with one highlight of the day each. My highlight of the day was not actually a taco. It was the live seerchin and raw scallop that we ate at that second spot we visited just after Taco Bell. Where did you guys go? We see what you're eating an uni?

My favorite part of the day was getting free hats, free stickers, and free tacos from the best spot out of all of them. How about that? That good? Nicholas. Was it that good? I don't know. I don't even remember any of it. Just eating, making pictures with the fans.

Kooch had a lot of those. Being a gentleman. Eating beef tripe, running around a Lamborghini, and, you know, eating tacos. My favorite thing was meeting some really, really nice cups. We also know that many of the taco places are only open from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m., and frankly, that's past all of our bedtime. Now we're going to head into the CVS to get some baby wipes and head home. It was just my birthday and apparently Nick has a surprise.

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