I had four post-midnight tacos tonight en route home from a show in Pomona.

The horchata at Jeesy’s was very good, and the pastor at Tacos La Que Si Llena was exceptional.

Also, Jeesy’s gets points for having an awesome neon sign and for letting customers dish out their own onions, salsa, carrots and jalapeños.

Believe it or not but there’s a taco truck in the ritzy neighborhood of Brentwood, parked on the northside of the Brentwood Country Club (San Vicente Ave. at Bristol Ave.) weekdays during lunch hours.

I swung by at 2 pm today and there were at least half a dozen other men ordering/waiting for food.

For $8.50 (a fortune at a taco truck), I bought a 0.5 L bottle of Mexican coke, and two carnitas tacos “plate.”

It came with a small side of chips/beans/salsa and sausage and onions with a really good spicy sauce.

Sadly, the carnitas was a bit fatty though, came on the bone, and the tortillas didn’t really hold together very well.

I had a really good pastor and carnitas taco (and a so-so asada taco) at Three Brothers Tacos in East Palo Alto today.

   

Ok, I’m a little late to this one, but apparently a taco truck right here in my own backyard — Los Compadres (Hayes St. and Polk St. near San Francisco’s City Hall Plaza — was going to be removed as per the request of the lot’s owner, Central Parking Systems. A concerned and intrepid taco aficionado, Matthew Goudeau, started a Facebook group and a small campaign to persuade CPS to let the truck continue to serve its delicious wares, and I’m happy to announce that it worked!

The San Francisco Sentinel and Goudeau’s Facebook group report that the truck has been saved! I just might have to go over there next week to get a celebratory taco — or three.

I did my own mini taco crawl in Modesto last week, exploring three of the five trucks parked next to one another on the corner of 8th St. and H St.

Here are their names, from H St. towards I St.:

El Super Taco (only one that advertised mariscos)
Los Portalitos
El Mexicano “C”
Adriana’s Super Tacos
F.K. Jessica’s No. 1

Sadly, I only had time for the last three, but enjoyed them very much, especially F.K. Jessica’s, which had really sweet pastor. Also had a pretty good jamaica at El Mexicano, as they were out of horchata.

There’s a great new book out, Polar Intertia, with some slick photographs of LA-area taco trucks.

From the book: “Each registered taco truck is required by the health department to begin or end its day at one of over 30 commissaries spread across Los Angeles County. For around $25/day The commissaries provide a parking space, cold and hot water hookups and drains for cleaning the trucks, as well as a food market for purchasing food supplies, drink, ice and propane from a wholesale dealer. From these base stations the trucks disperse, each following their own path through the city to find their customers.”