Day 86: Mijita

After spending my Friday night at UCSF (I was there till 2AM), I awoke to an overcast sky on a lazy mid-weekend Saturday. With nothing on my schedule, I was able to devote all of attention to tacos. I had recently read an article detailing a taqueria in the Ferry Building opened by Traci De Jardins. Her other restaurant in the city is quite good (although the food is decidedly not Mexican), so I figured Mijita would have some tasty taco offerings for Senor Salty. I rousted the Executive Producer, and we were off for the short walk down the Embarcadero. In spite of the less than ideal weather, the Fery Building was still its usual bustling disaster of wide-eyed tourists milling about aimlessly and families with too many kids trying to run me over with their rediculous double-wide strollers. After a brief battle to fight our way through the crowd to the back of the building, we arrived at Mijita slightly disheveled and hungrier than ever. We ordered our tacos (a carne and a carnitas for the E.P. and a carnitas and a fish for me) which were delivered almosrt immediately upon sitting down at one of the picnic tables outside on the promenade. My fish taco was pretty good, but it was the carnitas taco that really impressed me. Served simply on two tortillas with meat, cilantro, onions, and jalapenos on the side, this was truly an outstanding taco. The tortillas were fresh and chewey (you could see them being made through a window into the kitchen), the meat was crunchy and salty with a certain hint of sweetness (like cinammon or something similar) that was unlike any carnitas I had experienced before. Outstanding! My only regret was that I limited myself to a two taco order. I will definately be headed back to try the carne and pollo tacos very very soon.