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3. Super taco from El Toro or Pancho Villa
A taco from a San Francisco taqueria like Pancho Villa or El Toro is not the kind of taco you eat off the street in Mexico. It's not meant to be rolled up and downed in the matter of a few bites, or sold in threes and fours. A San Francisco super taco is a meal in itself, a mini burrito that is just harder to wrangle: doubled-up corn tortillas smothered in meat, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, salsa, guac, and sour cream -- all for $4, cheaper if you go super veg ($3.25). The savvy diner who no longer needs to eat half a burrito and wrap the other half in foil for breakfast the next morning buys a super taco and loads up the chips with salsas from the salsa bar.
