Add me to the long list of culinary explorers who discovered El Taconazo restaurant in Seminole Heights and became a zealot.  The so-called “Taco Trailer” is located on Hillsborough Avenue just East of Nebraska in Tampa. They don’t have air conditioning, padded booths or margaritas. They do have the best tacos I’ve tasted in Florida.

El Taconazo may be a for-profit business serving food to strangers, but it’s clear the recipes were originally conceived as a gesture of love - my guess is from a madre to her ninos.   How else to explain the finely crumbled white queso, the delicately chopped scallion and the sprinkling of fresh cilantro?  The flavors in the green and red salsas compete with the heat and the flavors win by a nose.  Their homemade refried beans will ruin you for the canned glop forevermore.

If you want six pounds of generic cheese and bean puree on a plate, there are any number of  chain restaurants that will fill you up. But you’ll walk out of El Taconazo both full and satisfied.  Thank me later.