El Taco Poblano is a street-food stop in Centro Historico, Puebla.
Editorially verified August 1, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Two tacos for roughly 30 pesos and an eleven-hour trading day, which makes this the easiest cheap arabe in the Centro.
Address: Avenida 9 Oriente 2, Centro histórico de Puebla, 72000 Puebla
Cemitas La Colonial sells its cemitas at about 34 pesos on 2 Poniente in Puebla, the cheap Centro fallback for when market queues get too long.
Try: Cemita
Tip: At about 34 pesos this is roughly half the price of the market counters, in exchange for a smaller build.
Taqueria Katy sells tacos arabes at about 16 pesos each in Barrio de los Remedios, Puebla, which is why the queue starts well before the evening.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: About sixteen pesos a taco in Los Remedios, so the barrio prices are worth the taxi if you are eating in numbers.
Taqueria El Jardin sits by the Acocota market in Puebla and sells tacos arabes at roughly 15 pesos, among the cheapest of any spit in the city.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: At roughly fifteen pesos a taco this is the cheapest spit in the city, next to the Acocota market north of the Centro.
Cemitas Las Poblanitas builds its cemitas inside the Mercado El Carmen hall in Puebla, papalo, quesillo and cauliflower escabeche on sesame-crusted bread.
Try: Cemita poblana
Tip: Inside Mercado El Carmen, and the cauliflower escabeche is what separates this counter from the ones on the street.
Super Cemitas El As de Oros works a stall inside the Mercado de Sabores in Puebla, stacking milanesa super cemitas that comfortably feed two people.
Try: Milanesa super cemita
Tip: Only opens Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, so check the day before crossing town to the Mercado de Sabores.
Cemitas La Colonial sells its cemitas at about 34 pesos on 2 Poniente in Puebla, the cheap Centro fallback for when market queues get too long.
Try: Cemita
Tip: At about 34 pesos this is roughly half the price of the market counters, in exchange for a smaller build.
Cemitas El Gordo builds milanesa cemitas on 13 Oriente in El Carmen, Puebla, opening early at the weekend and running through to the evening.
Try: Milanesa cemita
Tip: Opens at nine on Saturday and eight on Sunday, which is earlier than most cemita counters in El Carmen.
