Los Panchos — Restaurant in Pace

Another new edition to the lovely little town of Pace, FL since I moved away in 2015. My Momma loved it here. Don't get me wrong, the polished, traditional offerings of the Mexican restaurant down the street are a solid choice and very delicious. But something about this food truck just feel more authentically TexMex.

My Momma grew up in Texas, so she would know. I was too young to really remember, but my folks would always tell me that the best burritos were served out of the back of a truck on the side of the road. So now with the explosion in popularity of food trucks, that concepts gets taken to another level.

They have a very simple menu, basically anything you could want. Tacos, burritos, tamales, flautas, quesadillas. And you can ask for any meat you could ever want. Chicken, pork carnitas, pork al pastor, ground beef, and the meat taking America by storm lately, the birria beef.

I forgot exactly what I ate, but I remember I got a burrito, probably ground beef, a tamale, pork, and a taco, probably the birria. It was so long ago. But the moral of the story is that I've never had anything like any of it in Florida before. So good. So needed in little ol' Pace. If you see this place on the side of the road, stop...

Had the quesabirrus, amazing 3 shredded beef, cheese, onion tacos on a lightly grilled corn tortilla served with a side of juice from the meat. 11.99 Hubby had street tacos.. 2.99+.50 for carne asada.. he was very happy & their red sauce is Fire!! Yummmm if you like Spicy otherwise try their green sauce. Sadly they were out of Mexican coke in a bottle and we had to get the regular soda in a can vs bottled with real sugar. The man working is sweet & our order took about 10 minutes. Glad we ate there cause what I had is juicy & would have been soggy to go. In the past we’ve had the tamales both shredded beef & the jalapeno & cheese. They are very authentic! The masa is moist not dry but not too wet. They freeze & reheat great! Wish had more filling though. I’d love to try the chili renellos but 4 times I’ve tried they’ve been out.. which is fine. That tells me they make their stuff fresh & try & “plan” for the day!! I’m a native So Ca & I miss Cali Mexican & Mexican street food as none I’ve had here measures up… til...

Amazing! We got a sampling of things. Carnitas tacos, chicken quesadillas, chicken tamales, ground beef taco, Birria Beef Taco, and ground beef tamales.

Food: All of it was delicious, save for the beef tamales (they were just okay). I also prefer my tamales with more protein filling, but what I got for the price was good. Oh and all of this was like 30 bucks and fed me, my wife, and 2 younger kids (ages 5-10yo). Chicken quesadilla was a hit with the kids and it had more than just chicken and cheese in it!

Service: Fast. Waited for 5-10 minutes for all of our stuff. Lady who took our order was nice and encouraged us to try something other than ground beef before she realized we were sampling all their proteins through various menu items, lol.

Atmosphere: Hahaha. Y'all this place is 3 trailers in an empty grass lot. You are here for the food. Leave posh thoughts for the people eating gold flecks in their steaks and enjoy.

5/5 - I'll be back...probably tomorrow. A true...