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Tacos Del Norte
About Tacos Del Norte
Tacos are made to be eaten with your hands, quickly, and preferably not far from where they were assembled. That suits a town where a good part of the year is spent outdoors and most meals compete with a beach. Tacos Del Norte operates from 85 Backstreet Blvd in Penticton, off the main run of shopfronts but no distance from anything in a city this compact.
Kitchens in this line vary far more than the format suggests. Some build everything from scratch each morning and run a short list because of it, others carry a broad menu, and the split between counter service, takeout and any kind of seating is different in every case. Portion sizes are unpredictable across the trade, which is worth knowing before ordering for a group. Heat levels are worth asking about too, along with what can be made vegetarian, since neither is something to work out from a board above the counter while a queue builds behind you.
The rhythm of the town is the other thing to plan around. Penticton is the service centre for the whole South Okanagan and it draws daily traffic from the communities south and west of it, then adds a heavy tourist season on top from June through September. That combination makes midday and early evening the pinch points in summer. Ordering ahead, or eating slightly off the obvious hour, is how people who live here get around it, and parking stays easy by the standards of a bigger city.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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