The Brains of the Operation

El Taco de México goes to the head of the class.

A A A Comments By Jason Sheehan Thursday, Sep 26 2002

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Mark A. Manger

Making the cut: El Taco's kitchen does wonders with a cleaver and a cutting board.

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El Taco de Mexico

714 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204

Category: Restaurant > Mexican

Region: Central Denver

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714 Santa Fe Drive
303-623-3926

Hours: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday
10:30 a.m.-midnight Friday-Sunday

Tacos, soft and hard: $1.30-$1.70
Burritos: $4.50 plain, $5.50 smothered
Menudo: $6
Platas (with rice and beans): $6.95-$8.95
Liquada: $1.25

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When El Taco de México's kitchen is really working, the banging from the cutting boards is loud, and it carries. You can hear it over the phone. You can hear it out in the parking lot. Stop in during the worst crush of a busy rush, and you'll be right in the middle of one of the most jumbled, bungled, mingled, noisy, crowded and cosmopolitan spots in the entire city. The long, narrow space will be full of those wholesome kitchen smells and packed with people chasing after El Taco's reputation -- regulars from the neighborhood, Denver foodies with a yen for the simple charms of authentic old Mexico City flavors, whole immigrant families stopping in for hot bowls of menudo after church, businesspeople on their breaks, cholos, gringos and everyone in between. Everyone who knows good food, that is, and can recognize it in any environment.

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