Tips for Dining, Eating, and Food Shopping in the SF Bay Area (including Berkeley, Oakland, Napa, Sonoma, Marin, and San Jose)
Start New ThreadDoes anyone know where to buy good cooked carnitas, or al pastor, to take home for using later? When I lived on the Peninsula, there was a taqueria that sold any of their cooked meats by the pound. I'm looking for that in the Mission/Bernal. There's just two of us, cooking a pork shoulder ends up with way too much meat, we just want to do our own tacos at home.
By realspear
on Sep 29, 2011 02:11 PM
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The al pastor at Taqueria San Jose is juicy and flavorful. Cheap tacos, good salsas--I'm sure they'd sell it to go.
El Metate sells meats by the pound, but I don't like their carnitas particularly good.
My favorite carnitas of the moment are slightly farther at Chilango on Church at Market. The portion is pretty huge though, and they serve their excellent tortillas and salsas on the side. More expensive than most taquerias, but better quality.
You might also check out the pork tacos at Avedano's. Guaranteed to be $$$, but all their cooked pork I've tried has been really good.
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Taqueria San Jose
2830 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
El Metate Restaurant
2406 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA
Chilango
235 Church St, San Francisco, CA 94114
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