Tacos Al Pastor appears as a signature dish in 1 Mexico cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Tacos al pastor · Mexico City
Adobo-marinated pork shaved off a vertical trompo, served on a small corn tortilla with a sliver of pineapple, raw onion, fresh cilantro and a wedge of lime. Mexico City's defining street food, invented in the late 1930s.
Lebanese-Mexican immigrants brought the Levantine shawarma technique to Mexico City in the 1920s to 1940s, replacing lamb with pork marinated in adobo of guajillo, achiote and pineapple juice. The trompo stack and the pineapple finish became the signature in the late 1930s; El Tizoncito on Tamaulipas (1966) claims to have invented the modern small-tortilla version. El Huequito (1959) was an even earlier operation on Ayuntamiento. The 2024 Michelin Guide recognised El Califa de Leon on Ribera de San Cosme as the world's first taqueria to earn a Michelin star.
Where to eat in Mexico City:
- El Huequito
- El Tizoncito
- El Vilsito
- Tacos El Califa de Leon
- El Califa Condesa