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Santo Taco transports New Yorkers to a Mexico City taquería

The Nolita spot serves five tacos on house-made griddled tortillas, and a reviewer waited forty-five minutes on a Saturday; the window has no chairs.

Photo: Larry Miller · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 2.0
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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSanto Taco is serving Mexico City taquería classics to New Yorkers, and the chain's creator, Santiago Perez, says Mexico City inspired it, CBS News reports.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe menu is five tacos on griddled tortillas, everything is under seven dollars, and one reviewer queued forty-five minutes on a Saturday.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorForty-five minutes. I'll go first. Steak trompo on a vertical rotisserie, prime strip and sirloin. Seven point five.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNotes of char, and of a man who queued too long.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSix. I haven't tasted it, but the ordering window faces the street, and I don't trust food I can't sit down with.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSix? You've docked a taco for its window.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA window with no chairs. That's a food truck that gave up moving.

  8. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOr somebody's being kind, Hank, and that's worse, because kindness never lasts.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOnce a taco costs less than a sandwich, the sandwich shops start to worry.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor lunch I had a granola bar in the car. It was slightly warm.

  11. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI had a cold tea and the end of a bag of crisps. Chat, what was your sad lunch?

  12. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd Hank, your granola bar gets an eight.

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