The gorda taco at the Taco Fish food trailer is as portly as its name implies. It comes soundly stacked with mounds of fish, yellow peppers and a fat deep-fried shrimp balanced up top. There are a half-dozen hot sauces to heat it up, coleslaw to cool it down, and a squeeze bottle of avocado cream sauce to just spoil yourself with.
Taco Fish stakes out a barren concrete plot on West Grant Road, just west of Sixth Avenue. It’s a tiny little outfit that is actually quite hard to miss, thanks to two “Fish Tacos” banners flapping away out front.
When eating at a small food operation like Taco Fish, it is nice to do several things. First, stuff a few singles in the Styrofoam tip cup. You know they deserve it. Second, marvel at how food with such flavor and substance can be prepared in a space so absurdly small.
Also, don’t be shy on the pico de gallo and the rest of the condiment bar. The fish is battered and fried properly on the fish tacos, but what sets off the flavors is the balance of the onions, limes and other accoutrements of the condiment line. And don’t forget about that avocado sauce. Seriously.
If you like fish tacos, you should go to Taco Fish. And if you don’t like fish tacos? Well, if anything can cure you, Taco Fish can.
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2011.
The East/West demarcation for Grant Road is Stone. So this is on EAST Grant Road.
Accuracy, gentlemen and ladies.
Fixed!
Dropped in on ’em today for lunch, based on your praise, Adam.
You do not stretch the truth, sir. Deelicious batter-fried fresh fish.
Awesome, w/ the Guac sauce, pico & lime. Time to try the Shrimp, next!
Keep up this intrepid cart exploration- a worthy cause in T-town, indeed.
So glad to hear that, TucsonActive. Stay tuned. We’ve got some good ones coming up …
Hey Adam, question. I went to Taco Fish not long after you posted this (and loved it, thanks for the tip). Since then, I’ve been back twice to see they aren’t there-it’s a Jamaican food truck now. Did they move (and if so, where), or am just missing them? Thanks!
Hey, look right down the street. Taco Fish should still be there, but it’s just a little farther West on Grant Road. The oxtail, rice and awesome fruit drinks at D Island Grill JA, the food truck you saw, are also worth checking out. That stretch of Grant Road is quickly becoming a nexus of four-wheeled food vendors.
I love the batter on their seafood. Good god they can cook. Only problem I see is deciding between D Island and taco fish.
I literally stared at both for 15 minutes before deciding today.