Takosher

I would love to contact your company about our upcoming Purim carnival at the Jewish Community Center I work for. We are expecting to have more than 1,500 people attend and would love to have a food truck attend and bring something different and exciting. Gourmet food trucks are very popular but finding a Kosher food truck isn’t so easy. Please Contact me soon. Thank you

Who doesnt love mexican food? and who doesnt love food trucks? Well I love both yet this food truck is one of the worst there is!
No Cheese, No Queso Fresca, (okay I can deal with this) but the beef and chicken was dry and flavorless equals one unhappy customer.
If you see this truck keep on walking– the next truck HAS to be better, there really is no way it could be worse!

@takosher
Kosher tacos! What a novel concept.
When I came across this truck in Encino, (appropriately), I didn’t know what to think. Growing up as a Jewish kid in the Valley we didn’t really keep kosher but we understood the what and why of it. On the other hand, you can’t really live is So Cal and not develop a taste for Mexican food.
So it stands to reason that someone from here would fuse the two.
But this goes a step further. This is classic Jewish soul food wrapped in a tortilla.
After trying the Brisket taco, the Chosen taco and the Latke taco I have to say that these flavors do fuse well but this is not without it’s missteps.
The Brisket taco is exactly what you would picture it to be. A slow cooked, (Jewish Style), pot roast shredded with some chili sauce, sauerkraut and raisins placed in a tortilla with some pico de gallo. This taco is a rock star among food truck tacos. The flavors just work here.
The chosen taco, which is a chicken taco doesn’t quite match the brisket but it still made me long for my Nana’s chicken in the pot.
Wish I could say that the latke taco stood up as well but it just didn’t. The texture just isn’t right although the flavor is good.
All in all I would eat from this truck again but they don’t seem to be around much any more.
So I will send the Takosher a Mazel Tov and part with an Oy Vay that I can’t seem to find them around anymore

This review is like breaking up with a really sweet girl. You don’t want to hurt her feelings because she’s so damn nice, but you’re just not that into her. Do you lie and just pretend like everything is good? Nope, gots to say it like it is.
Takosher, this hurts me too you know.
When I realized they had tofu tacos I thought alright, lets do this. By definition they were already vegan so I was getting them as they were meant to be eaten. I point this out because sometimes to veganize something I’ll get it without cheese or sour cream or whatever, and then if it’s lacking I take partial responsibility for it. But the «Fujitas» as they’re called sounded dope as is. Baked tofu marinated in mesquite and garlic; sautéed «fajita style» with grilled peppers, onions and a squeeze of lime.
Sounded really freaking good actually, and even when they were ready they LOOKED good too. I got the plate combo so chips and beans came with. I got my grub with a thank you and a promise of the «best tofu tacos I’ve ever had.»
Hmmmm… not really. No way to dance around this, they were just flat out boring. It’s crazy because I’m looking down on this rich looking marinated tofu and bright peppers and onions. But that beauty just did not transfer over to taste unfortunately, even the beans were bland.
I tried, but Takosher and I just weren’t right for each other.
*cue break-​up music*

If you are looking for a glatt kosher taco truck, well then Takosher is your vehicle. Delicious brisket and latke tacos at the usual hipster taco truck prices. They also cater events for synagogues and parties and their truck is very cool looking! You can follow them on twitter. They tend to favor the westside, but do occasionally come out east for community events.

Yay for taco trucks parking outside my miles-​away-​from-​good-​food work to save me from another insanely gross wrap or salad from our cafeteria.
Takosher offered me veggie options, too. Hooray! I got:
Fujitas (tofu tacos) — REALLY good with a super yummy green salsa that looks like guacamole on top. Excellent marinated fake meat in a great sauce. I wish I could have ordered it without the onions, though.
Original Latketaco — Eh. Maybe I don’t like latkes, but it was a potato cake with a really sweet, applesauce-​type sauce on top. It would have been better if the sweet sauce had some savory to it. I scraped off all the sauce and just ate the taco with the potato, but then it was bland.
If this truck came back to my work, I’d definitely get the Fujitas taco again.

These are great tacos, period. I don’t keep Kosher but I do love me some tacos and these are some of the finest in Los Angeles.

my son’s Youth Group from our synagogue (Adat Shalom), had the Takosher truck to provide dinner. We went out of curiosity, cuz we had see in on Pico. We were very pleaseantly surprised! THe latke tacos, we different & tasty. The brisket, was tender & flavorful. the portions were very good (i recommend getting at least 2 tacos). They served the food quickly, & the servers were very nice. Can’t ask for more than that! Can’t wait to have them at our next event,

Dear Takosher,
please create a sister truck and send it to Seattle.
Our jewish community thanks you.
OMG, I feel blessed to have stumbled upon this truck during my 1^st visit to LA. I had 1 chicken, 1 tofu, and 1 latke taco. All were wonderful.
The latke taco made me think it was Hanukkah time all over again.
I’ll miss you

Hey did you hear the one about these three Jewish tacos?
Nope, that isn’t the start of a lame attempt at ethnic humor, it’s just me talking about the meal I had today. technically speaking, these were not «Jewish Tacos» but they were Kosher which means that they conform to strict Jewish dietary law and are subject to inspetion and certification by rabbis.
That also means among other things better cuts of beef, no pork, no cheese or dairy products of any kind. And 3 excellent tacos. They offer 5 choices; I went the Brisketaco, Carne Le Beef Taco and the Latke Taco. They also offered «Chosen Chicken» and Fujitas, which sounds good until you realize the «Fu» means tofu. Fooey.
I dove into the Brisketaco first, which like the other 2 were served on small, double flour tortillas. According to the website, the brisket is marinated in chiles and sauerkraut which I noticed, and raisins which I didn’t. The meat did have a nice sweet and spicy essence though. 4 stars.
The Carne Le Beef was just a little disappointing, the meat was marinated differently and just not that impressive. Nothing specific wrong with it. I just liked the Brisket better. 3 stars.
However, I saved the best for last, the latke taco. Latkes are Jewish style potato pancakes. They are prepared in a deep fryer with onions which is pretty standards, and with chipotle chiles, and cilantro which isn’t. That’s 5 stars right there, but they topped it off with an jalapeño apple chutney which simply stole the meal.
My 3 taco combo was 9.50 including tax and it came with a handful of tortilla chips and a Jícama slaw salad.
One gripe though, and I am gonna let it slide because the truck has been on the streets only a couple of weeks. You had cases and cases of bottled Dr. Brown soda on ice. Nice touch as I understand the need for kosher beverages, but why no diet flavors? I know there are distributors here who offer Diet Cream and diet Black Cherry flavors. Why not give us customers a choice?
«Gourmet Food Truck #15 on my never-​ending quest to try every truck in So Cal»

The world of fusion food. Adding two different types of foods and seeing what crazy thing you come up with. It’s like when you’re eating some peanut butter and you walk into someone with chocolate!
In this case I suppose the question to this answer is what do you get when a Jew and a Mexican walk into a food truck…
Takosher!
Yes. First you had Korean and Mexican, there was a Chinese and Mexican and a laundry list of other Blanks with Mexican food. Joining the ranks now is a Jewish and Mexican fusion taco truck providing kosher meats for your taco needs.
If you’re wondering what makes it kosher, It’s more than having a Rabbi waving a magic wand and saying some words.
You would need to kill according with Jewish laws. All blood must be drained form meat and poultry or broiled out of it before it is eaten. Doesn’t seem so hard. No pigs either, but again, not on the menu and I’m not going to hope for shrimp to show up in the future.
So were they any good? I would say YES, they were.
First one I tried was a Brisketaco — it was loaded with marinated brisket meat. While it was on a little half dollar size tortilla, it still had a lot of meat on it. Enough so that you’d probably be better off using your other tortilla to scoop up the fallen behind meat.
The marination of this one was really good and juicy. While brisket could simply be shredded beef, it did bring a lot of different flavors than I have tasted on a taco before.
The Carne La Beef — seemed like a bit of a pointless one as it’s going to be marinated, but not that too much different than your regular ground beef street taco. Add in you could find it for ¹⁄₃^rd the price from any Mexican truck/​stand in old Jew town, Boyle Heights.
The other one I was very much surprised by, not to mention that this was the unique one of the bunch. A LATKETACO. Yeah, I have no idea how to say it either.
Latketaco — Okay, now this is something different. I grew up eating mashed potato tacos, they were a staple in my modestly poor East L.A. up bringing, so I’m no stranger to this concept. It was a couple of different potato latka with various other toppings and an apple chutney and it was good. Oh so good.
Which was a bit of a surprise to me because I would have imagined that a deep fried and battered potato pancake would just be too much starch for one taco (in a tortilla no less), but it had so much flavor coming out of it that I couldn’t pass it up till it was all gone.
The also offer a chosen chicken, which I suppose wasn’t too chosen as I didn’t pick it nor did the person behind me in line. And another option for your vegans is a tofu fajitas style taco that I didn’t try.
Now after all that raving stuff, there’s got to be a little bit of the classic Jewish mother’s guilt mixed in.
I have to say $ 3.50 for a taco? WHAT?! Come on, you’re just perpetuating a Jewish stereotype here. This isn’t banking or the entertainment industry, you don’t have a foothold on it so how about charging what everyone else charges.
$ 6.50 for a combo isn’t much of a combo when the chips and the weird salad is a bit off. But hey, what am I going to do, starve to death? More like. yeah, don’t worry about me and this terrible economic situation, you go ahead and charge $ 3.50 for what everyone else is charging under two bucks for.
The price kills me. so maybe I’m showing a little bit of the chosen in me, It must be the glasses. But even then, it’s still very very good and if I’m hungry, my Goy common sense not to spend that much on a single taco ($ 3.50) is going to lose out to my Jewish side who’s simply trying to keep kosher. and delicious.
And while tacos are great, maybe I can persuade you to add another L.A. street food classic to the menu with a Kosher twist… How about a Hebrew National hot dog wrapped with turkey bacon? Come on, you’re the chosen people, it’s time you choose a bacon wrapped hot dog that all Jewish folks can enjoy and that those non-devout’s have been enjoying for years.
Over all, a welcome addition to the world of mobile culinary. This is truly something unique and interesting. Be it a little bit on the pricey side.

Guess I’m the first to review Takosher and I’m not sure what address they’re headquartered at since Takosher is a food truck.
I know I said there would be no math, but Taco + Kosher = Takosher. I’ve never had a kosher taco, but I figured this would be worth a shot.
I’ve uploaded a few pictures (yeah not the best quality), so you can get an idea of the price, it is not as cheap as the Korean fusion trucks you can eat at.
I had the 3 taco combo plate with the Brisketaco, Fujitas and the Chosen Chicken.
— The Chosen Chicken was good, a solid taco, starting this review at 4 stars. The salsa had some kick, the chicken wasn’t dry and the flavors come together nicely.
–My Fujita taco was different from the picture they have on their website, half the taco consisted of red onions, and the taco was covered in a green lime salsa. The lime overpowered the entire taco and the only flavor hitting my tastebuds was the bitterness of the lime, rendering the taco inedible after one bite, dropping the review score to 2.
–Brisketaco. Ah, the brisketaco. How I wish I ate you after the Fujitas to get that taste out of my mouth. The signature taco for a reason, packed with tender and delicious brisket, it was heavenly. Beware though, eat the brisketaco by bending foward and holding the taco and your mouth away from your body as juices will fly out on every bite. Amazing taco bring the review back up to 4 stars despite the bitterness of the Fujita.
Most disappointing part of the experience: I paid for a $ 2 Jones soda and forgot to grab it when I got my tacos, but I am solely to blame for that blunder.