Carte Blanche Gourmet Tacos & Catering

Amazing tacos! Amazing service! My guest loved the presentation and service they provided! Great for private parties! Thanks shantel!

Thank you for making our party the talk of the town! Shantal we appreciate your personal touch on the party. We had the chicken, steak and mushroom tacos as well as the ceviche spoons. The food was terrific!
Great communication with Shantal and staff. They did a great job and no mess was left to clean up:)

We used Carte Blanche for our outside backyard wedding event. The tacos, salad, appetizers, rice and beans were all awesome. The portobello tacos are amazing… love them! The entire experience was great, from the tasting through the event… great customer service Shantal is great to work with and made the whole process very easy. The night event the event was very smooth and the guests loved the food and service provided. I highly recommend Carte Blanche for any type of event.

Encountered Carte Blanche at an event at the UA School of Medicine in downtown Phoenix. They served a great chicken taco with buttered apples, pecans and blue cheese. Also a simple cheese quesadilla.
I was most impressed by the servers. Really friendly and accommodating. No problem when I asked that a couple of the tacos be just plain chicken for dietary reasons. Not insulted. No problem. And very generous with the chicken. Also interacted well with the kids in our party.
I’m looking forward to encountering Carte Blanche again. Five stars may eventually be in order.

Sooo good! Nothing compares. It is truly amazing what Shantal & Alana can do from there cart. I ate as many Poblano and Portobello and I could. i have tried just about every taco shoppe and Carte Blanche is by far the best!

Very yummy tacos. They were pretty small but you can get 3 for $ 9 so that’s not too bad. Unlike other food trucks, they don’t make the food to order in the truck. The meat are roasted ahead of time and then they just put it on the tacos with the toppings and salsas you desire. The pork and beef tasted great but I’m not sure I’d do fish that way.

The Carte Blanche Gourmet Taco truck was parked outside at Unilocal community event I attended, while setting up they had a little bit of a hard time with getting the burners ready, but stuff happens.
They had a little deal going that was 2 tacos for 7 bucks, and the indigents of the tacos were delish, but what threw off the taco for me was that the flour tortilla was cold, cold tortilla & warm fillings = wired combo for me.
I 1^st ordered the ancho chili braised steak with peach chutney & arugula, ok my way of thinking was hey I like when mango is covered in chili power it gives it a smokey taste and cuts out of the sweet. I guess with the peach, it still stays peachy sweet. The steak was very tender and moist and the peach chutney on top of it was a great combo, but it wasn’t what I was expecting, was wanting more savory then sweet.
I then ordered the braised steak with slaw and tomatillo avocado sauce, that right there was some good stuff! Moist, tender, flavorful, just a happy blend of happiness! (I ordered 2 of these!)
Now I am a meat eater and normally leave the veggie dishes for them vegetarians but I was hearing this buzz among the people there that the portabella taco was the best, and I thought um what do they know, beef is always better. BOY OH BOY was I wrong; ok I did order 2 of the slaw tacos, but this chipotle sautéed portabella mushroom with mozzarella, cilantro and toasted pumpkin seeds blew my mind! This is one hard core taco! The flavor was amazing!
If I see Carte Blanche again I will stop by and see what’s cooking!

On the go? Looking for some fuel to help you through? If you’re lucky Carte Blanche will be standing by to serve you a delicious taco before you faint! I’ve seen Carte Blanche at several events but I didn’t have the pleasure of trying their food until recently. So now that I have what do I think? These are some deliciously delightful tacos, and all out of a truck! Now when I say tacos out of a truck, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking of the stereotypical «food truck» but ladies and gentlemen, it is a new era and food trucks are all the fashion! Carte Blanche is compact, cute, and run by a sweet lady who knows how to make a mean taco. The tortillas are fresh and their meat is nicely cooked. I had a steak taco with pumpkin chutney and a pork taco with a fruit type salsa. Both were delicious! Personally, I like my soft tacos a little warmer to soften them up, but even without being warm they were still soft and accompanied the meat well. Next time I’m in the same area as Carte Blanche, I will be stopping by for food.

This Gourmet taco truck was parked outside of a Unilocal community event tonight. There was a small hiccup with the burners but they worked hard to get the food hot for all of us quickly.
They offered 4 different types of tacos.
I ordered the Pork with Sweet Potato and Pineapple and the Chipotle Portobello Mozzarella tacos on my first go around. The pork taco was still a little cold, but i can understand it because of the trouble with the burners. I wasn’t a huge fan of the flavor. The pork was pretty standard, but the sweet potato made the entire taco a little too sweet for my tastes. But the worst part was there was a whole bay leaf in the filling of this taco, which is not a very pleasant texture to find in your mouth.
The Portobello taco on the other hand was an explosion of flavor. Every bite was a perfect combination of spicy offset by the earthy mushroom & creamy cheese.
On my second trip back to the taco truck tonight i ordered the steak taco with the slaw on top & because it was so great i ordered another Portobello taco. The steak taco was nice and spicy, just the way i like and was perfectly combined with the cool slaw. But my vote was all for the portobello taco. I could eat a platter full of them.
The ladies at the cart were great and interacted with each of us. I would have given them 4 stars, but the bay leaf in the pork tuned me off a bit at the beginning.

We had the audacity to venture out of our comfort zone and WALLA… we were glad we did. Typically, any time we’d host a party, we’d prepare our own meal, but this was definitely well worth the time for us. We had an evening backyard 50^th birthday party with approximately 20 guests in mid-​April and not only was the weather absolutely perfect, but everyone enjoyed the tacos immensely. We had steak, pork, chicken, fish, and portabello mushroom as our menu options… all were incredibly tasty and the idea of having the adorable cart parked in our backyard where our guests could walk up and have fresh made to order tacos was a definite PLUS! The gals were incredibly personable and patient and eager to please and offer suggestions to all of our guests. Surprisingly… we did have a few left overs and can I just say they were even still more incredible even a day or so after (I have a new found respect for leftovers). I’m actually craving the portabello mushroom RIGHT NOW! Darn… but I mean that in the nicest of ways :-) I would highly recommend Carte Blanche for any event… definitely!

We hosted a Birthday Fiesta at our home on April 30^th for 125 guests. We hired Carte Blanche Gourmet Tacos to cater. The owners, Shantal & Alana were amazing to work with. They are extremely professional and paid attention to every detail. The food they prepared was exceptional. The Portobello Mushroom, Steak & Chicken tacos were addicting. As were the sides; rice, beans guacamole & pico de gallo they prepared. Our guests have not stopped raving about our party.
We always try to have something unique and unexpected at our parties, as well as fabulous food. We accomplished BOTH of these things with Carte Blanche. We highly recommend them and would use them again!
Susan and Michael Kelley

Lunch catered from Carte Blanche. I was hesitant to get in on it because gourmet and taco cart sounds very contradicting. After being pressured into it I agreed and split an order with a friend. I had the pork, chicken, beef, and mushroom.
The tacos are much smaller than the ones you see in pictures. Bigger than a regular street taco but nothing like the large taco taking up almost a whole plate as was advertised.
The tortillas were served cold. Absolutely unacceptable. The meat was shredded and precooked most likely in a crock pot. Also unacceptable for a proclaimed gourmet taco cart. The sauce and flavors were decent. None of the salsas or toppings were outstanding or noteworthy. In fact, I’ve had much better toppings on your average taco cart that charges half the price. I’m not a fan of slaw and that seems to be their specialty here. Also the toppings were cold. The sweet potato, pineapple, and cilantro on pork would have been good if it was heated up before being served as would have the corn and bean relish on the chicken. But the fact that it was all precooked shredded meat it probably would have not made a big difference either way.
The highlight was the mushroom taco. Savory, earthy, and salty portobello mushrooms very well seasoned and topped with mozzarella. Very tasty despite being delivered to your mouth on a cold flour tortilla. Tragic.
I may be alone on this but when I think of a taco cart I want something hot, freshly grilled with hot fresh home made tortillas at a reasonable price. I’m always open to new things if done correctly and frankly this wasn’t. The idea is there and visible in the mushroom taco but the overall execution simply failed. A few minor changes and this could go from poor to great. Grill meat on site and do not use shredded crock pot type meat. Serve hot fresh toppings. Heat tortillas up on a grill and serve fresh per order. Serve larger portions or lower the price.

Are you ready for two wonderful ladies with amazing personalities and some DELICIOUS tacos?! you should be!
i had the pleasure to consume tacos from this cart during the most recent First Friday’s event in downtown Phoenix.
We sampled each variety; pork, steak, portobello mushroom and chicken! each taco had a very unique spice level, comfortable spice, not OMG where is the water spice. the tortillas are really tasty also and hold up to the massive amount of ingredients inside. you really get a huge quantity of product in that vessel! i really enjoyed each variety, however i do feel that the mushroom edged out the others, only very slightly!
the ladies also sell a variety of beverages, very reasonable prices. everything set up around the cart was very clean and neat and really just a great experience all around.
i wish i lived closer or had a secret map of the locations of this taco cart, I’d totally go every week, so should you!

These ladies make some fine, fresh tacos! I was lucky enough to enjoy a few during a catered lunch at work. They had a number of options: steak, portabello mushroom, pork, chicken, etc.
I devoured the chicken taco, which consisted of shredded chicken (moist but not dripping = ++), crisp corn, black beans, and a savory-​sweet creamy sauce. I also had the pork taco, also shredded, with a cabbage slaw, and a mild red sauce. Very «simple» and very delicious!.. and I’m not much of a slaw kind-​of guy so kudos! for a recipe that balances all the ingredients, where one (read: cabbage) does not overpower the other.
The sauces are amazing! They should bottle

I have enjoyed these tacos every time I see their cart at events in Scottsdale and Phoenix. I Love the Chicken Taco with the roasted chili sauce. Yummy. Carte Blanche was my favorite at the Devoured event at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Omg!!! Are they the BEST tacos EVER– or what!!! I will never be able to go back to just plain old tacos after eating these wonderful, scrumptous creations! Everything is exceptional, but I personally fell in love with the portabella mushroom tacos and the steak tacos with crema sauce. Yummy!!!