Doña Garnacha Taco Truck

Some of the best pastor I’ve ever had. They do it separate from the truck on a spit. Their vegetarian quesadilla is surprisingly good too.

The taco truck is situated on the southeast corner of the intersection in the car wash parking lot. Look for the gaudy LED sign, plasma TVs, and truck with flames painted on its side.
I approached the truck with my date in trepidation. They had enough lights on it and colors on their menu to induce a Class 4 seizure. Yeah, that serious. I skipped the nonsense pastrami/​fries burrito combinations and went straight for the carne asada burrito (having missed seeing the al pastor cooking right next to the truck [God, it looked delicious.]).
Look past the shallow façade and you’ll see a true taco truck crying out for your attention. They opt to skip a visit to their local Gigante and make their own tortillas. I can’t tell you how much of difference that makes. When I was building orphanages (Really, this isn’t a joke) in Mexico, the lady helping out (Seriously, stop laughing) at that local church made tortillas on rusted oil drums with butter. They were awesome and loaded with iron! Take that, anemia!
Anyways, the burrito gets three thumbs up. The carne asada was tender and well seasoned. I think there was rice, maybe beans, but there was definitely lots of fresh sliced avocado. I love avocado.
Just check it out and eat it. Oh, and my date also said his burrito (fries and al pastor) was good. How can you not trust a guy who helped build orphanages?

Tortillas good. Al pastor bomb. Condiments and salsa rocking. And my friend Jane said the chicken was amazing.

The al pastor tacos are excellent. The California burrito is interesting — fries inside the burrito. I probably wouldn’t order it again though.

So soooooooooo good. Best taco truck in LA, way better than the one down Alvarado at Von’s.

taco trucks are becoming as trendy as the snuggy, or going green. this one is pretty pimped out with double flat screen tvs, but when it comes down to it, a taco truck is a taco truck. Lots of meat options including lengua and other things that are mysterious to me. the tortillas are freshly made right there and they have plenty of salsa options for you. if you don’t mind downing your Mexican feast while sitting on a folding chair watching telemundo on sunset blvd. then this is your spot.
note: there may or may not have been a hair in my friend’s taco. he may or may not have continued eating anyway.

I’m addicted, I know everyone says on different places «this is the best ever blah blah blah» but this IS the BEST Al Pastor Taco I’ve eveerrr had. Followed by the al pastor mulitas in a very close 2^nd :)
cheap and delicious, and usually small lines… for now

Don’t fear the flames painted on the side of the truck, these people are not douchebags.
It is straight up retarded that there are lines outside of all the other taco stands in Echo Park and it is possible to walk right up to this one. I understand that tacos are sentimental and subjective but people are truly missing out by standing in line for Taco Zone for 45 minutes while watching drunk people vomit in the Von’s parking lot. I hesitate to even post this for fear that the secret is out, but I really want these people to never ever have reason to leave my neighborhood.
Also: Dear Unilocal,I am tired of being sent to places that are just mediocre-​THIS is the kind of place I want to know about.
A few things:
With the exception of a few items on the menu, everything is made with fresh, hand-​pressed masa. You wait a little longer but when your teeth sink into the impossibly perfect fresh tortilla, time melts away.
I can’t get past the Al Pastor to try anything else. It is caramelized, tender, and perfectly seasoned on the spit with pineapple and onion. It has ruined me for all others. The Mulitas are oozing with cheese, unwieldy, and pillowy. They haunt my dreams.
I am a condiment fiend and they really lay out the goods. A full assortment of salsas, cucumber, pickled onions with habañero, radishes, onion, cilantro and lime. Not that you want to mess too much with the perfection of the Al Pastor, but you do anyway.
They play Telemundo/​Univision on multiple screens so you can watch Latino Judge Judy or busty girls in matching lingerie sets being toppled from their hammocks by old men in handlebar moustaches while you wait.