Los Pericos

Lorraine, Allison, and I decided to visit our favorite Dublin taqueria today Los Pericos (the parrots). We have dined here several times before, always impressed with fast service, great prices and good food. Try to avoid coming here during the lunch rush, or else you will be part of the daily line out the door.

Like most taquerias you select your meal from a menu posted overhead, pay, take your number and have a seat, then the food is delivered to your table. While you wait, you can take advantage of the vast salsa bar, offering spice levels from the pico de gallo to the roasted chile salsa that will burn you twice if you are not careful.

Salsa bar with "industrial" grade sneeze guard.

Believe it or not there is a large corn tortilla at the bottom.

LG and Alli Palli decided to order the carne asada super taco. This taco comes complete with carne asada, cilantro, sour cream, onion, guacamole, pico de gallo, and red sauce. At $3.25 each, these tacos are a best kept secret, cheap, delicious, and unless you are a competitive eater it should fill you up. In addition to all the fresh flavors coming through with the cilantro and salsa, I was impressed with the tender and juicy yet crispy steak pieces.

Steak Ranchero

I was interested in a low carb option, intially I was going to order a burrito and leave the tortilla as a disposable food wrapper. Instead, Lorraine suggested I sample the Steak Ranchero. I ordered whole bean instead of refried (forgot to tell them to hold the queso). As you can see, they inlcluded beans (yummy), rice (eh), guacomole (fair), and marinated steak pieces sauteed with jalepeno peppers, onions, fresh tomatoes, and served in a light red sauce (muy deliciouso). This meal could easily feed two. I ate all the meat, a couple bites of beans, a few jalepenos and I was full. You can think of it as fajitas on steroids, sans the fancy sizzling skillet and high price.

Los Pericos is "THE" taqueria in the Tri-Valley area, if you don't agree with me then I will fight you, or at least ask you where you think is better and try it as well.

You can visit them at:

7473 Village Pky, Dublin, CA 94568