La Rancherita Food Truck — Restaurant in Tacoma

I love Mexican cuisine, but this was not my favorite. We tried this through delivery (Grub Hub?) even though we are about a two minute car ride to the truck. We were feeling lazy and enjoying the extended New Year's Day holiday. With that being said, our food arrived in the time that I felt like it should with the truck being so close to us. The food was warm enough but not sizzling hot. Our dishes were served in aluminum foil plates/flat bottom bowls of decent size and plastic lids. I ordered two dishes just to get a feel for their food. One dish was nachos and the other was their street tacos platter. The street tacos platter consisted of three chicken (my choice of meat) tacos, refried beans and rice. The meat in the tacos was a little less in quantity than I expected and lacked a little flavor, the beans were not bad, and I didn't try the rice. I'm just not a huge fan of rice but the looks of it - looked tasty.

My next dish was nachos. They were tasty enough. I went with the ground beef (my choice of meat). The additions were cheese, refried beans, and tomatoes. I asked for some diced onion to be added which they obliged. It wasn't the best nachos nor the worst. The flavor was good enough but I didn't feel like much care was put into making the nachos. All of the goods were just centered in the middle. There were quite a few dry chips underneath. The guacamole and sour cream were just glopped on top - I should have know better and requested them on the side. So the top layer of chips were over loaded and kind of soggy. Not the end of the world, I just felt that they weren't made with love.

I liked the red sauce, it was spicy, not a complaint just my observation, and the green sauce was pretty tasty and mild.

All in all, I would give the place another try but for now I list...

Amazing to have such a great taco truck in the neighborhood. If you’re hoping to try some authentic Mexican dishes that you can’t find in the typical restaurants, this is your place. I’d highly suggest the 3 big quesabirria with consomé, chunks of tender beef stew in cheesy tacos dipped into flavorful beef broth. Mmmm so good. If you haven’t had tacos with tongue or tripe, you better try it here. The tongue is tender and tripe is crispy, almost like chicharron. Enchiladas in mole sauce, pollo a la crema, fajitas were all spot on. A bit of caution about the dishes with a la diabla sauce, they weren’t kidding when they said the devil is in the sauce. It had a slow burn on the tongue and mouth that built up and interrupted my meal 5 times. Fun for the adventurous eat or for a spice challenge at a party, not for the faint of heart. Still have many more things to try, alambres, birria tortas, pupusas, different soups, etc.

The people that own the taco truck are also very nice. The lady allowed me to practice my poor Duolingo style Spanish even though she easily could’ve handled the conversation in English in half the time.

Lastly, don’t miss out on the salsas around the back side of...

My gf went to this place last night and she didn’t have the best experience. Her second time going. Her first experience was a lot better she had met the owner and the costumer service was great with her, but last night was a different story. 2 young kids didn’t care about customer service. I made this review for her because she was supposed to bring me food from there afterwards and since the customer service was so bad and she was upset , she didn’t even mind bringing me food from there. Hopefully management can do something about this or we won’t be going back. No hate just...