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    Tacos El Gordo

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    Multiple Locations
    Eastside
    The Strip
    Cuisine: 
    Mexican
    Award: 
    Best of the City
    Award Year(s): 
    2020
    Price: 
    $--under $20
    3049 S Las Vegas Blvd
    Las Vegas , NV
    702-982-5420
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    Last Updated: 
    January 6, 2020

    If you haven’t experienced the, uh, interesting ordering system at Tacos El Gordo, then you haven’t truly lived. One of the valley’s more confusing restaurant arrangements that involves three ordering lines — each specific to meat or dish — means picking the wrong line can be disastrous. Luckily, the best meat lies at the end of the first, and inevitably longest, line: adobada. This marinated rotisserie pork cooked by open flame is crispy, flavorful and tinged with cinnamon — and always worth the wait.

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    Street Foodie: The Flavor of the Strip

    May 01, 2019

    You can eat from the street without leaving the Boulevard.

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    In Which We Explore The Wide Wide World Of Tacos

    May 15, 2015

    There was a time in American life when "taco" was associated the u-shaped, crispy, yellow tortilla shells, that seemed designed to shatter into a dozen small pieces as soon as you bit into one end

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    DEALicious meals

    Jul 01, 2014

    DEALicious Mealers: Jim Begley, Chris Bitonti, Scott Dickensheets, Jarret Keene, Andrew Kiraly, Heidi Kyser, Debbie Lee, Molly O’Donnell, James P. Reza, Lissa Townsend Rodgers This marks the fifth year that we’ve herded our collective gastronomic adventures into an annual flavorpedia of deliciositude.

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    DEALicious Meals: More than 75 great meal deals big on flavor, small on price

    Jul 01, 2011

    Hope you’re hungry. Because it’s time to strap on your bib, loosen your belt and dig in to our compendium of the best cheap eats across the valley, from deep-dish pizza to bubble gum crepes to a Korean dish called, ominously and accurately enough, “fire chicken.

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    Summer dining issue

    Jul 01, 2017

    You know what the universal language is? Soup. Also noodles. And sandwich...

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    Best of the City 2020: Food & Drink

    Jan 01, 2020

    The best-of Las Vegas food for 2020!

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