- Today we're in Los Angeles, California
and we're eating tacos.
LA's known for great tacos.
But do they really have good tacos everywhere?
- We are gonna stop at every single taco truck we find
and eat all the tacos to find out how many
of Hollywood's tacos are actually delicious.
We're starting at Leo's Taco Truck.
One of our favorites.
Also, Garrick's here.
- Hey, free food.
Yum.
- [Keith] Oh, yeah.
- [Zach] They have al pastor for lunch.
- [Keith] It's inside the lunch truck.
Okay, so you're getting one carne asada?
- Yeah.
- I'm getting one.
- Carnitas?
- Carnitas.
- Al pastor, baby.
- Al pastor.
- What's your favorite one?
- [Employee] - Al pastor.
- Yeah.
There it is.
- [Employee] For me, it's the best.
- Obviously, it's the best.
I know it's the best.
Do you want one too?
- I can't be doing, I can't start out this way.
We know what's gonna happen.
Let me fix you up.
You just got, you got string on yourself.
- Oh my God.
- What the hell's happening there?
- Just keep pulling, unravel me.
- [Keith] It's gonna happen.
What happened here?
- Yeah. I also, I lost a button, but I have it,
but it reveals a button.
- [Keith] Yeah, and you're still growing your hair back
from the shirt video.
- Yeah. - [Keith] Yeah.
- Yeah, it's coming in,
pretty well actually.
So we said we're gonna stop at every taco truck that we see.
There's a taco truck here.
There's one right there.
So.
- [Keith] We're gonna walk over.
- [Zach] Yeah, why don't you go do it,
I'll wait for our food here.
- [Keith] Okay.
- [Keith] This is a great example
of what you would visit when you were just like drunk.
First taco of the day.
- Oh, yeah.
Oh, this is good.
- I'm gonna use the sauce.
- This is really good.
Look, this truck is going up against the behemoth,
being next to Leo's and it's delivering.
- Very good cilantro and onion mixture on this bad boy.
Am I gonna try to sound
educated about the food at all?
(laughs)
- I would call it yummy.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and I finished mine.
Sometimes the carnitas is very wet,
Sometimes it's been fried.
This one's fried, it makes it a little dry.
But with the hot sauce, it leveled it out.
Still I think it's good.
But now it's time for Leo's.
- [Zach] So this is the al pastor.
You got thinly sliced meat.
I love how thin this is.
They marinate this baby for hours.
- [Keith] That looks so good.
- [Zach] Usually you can't get al pastor until nighttime
because they're, they are just, they're still marinating it.
- Oh boy, Garrick.
- Oh no!
- [Keith] Oh, boy.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
Okay, Leo's.
- Ready.
- Oh, that's (bleep) perfect.
Oh yeah.
(sirens blaring) - Come on, Hollywood.
Okay.
That's right, Hollywood.
(sirens blaring)
That's my Los Angeles right there.
- The al pastor, it's perfectly marinated,
and then you have that little brightness,
sweetness from the pineapple.
Oh, I love it so much.
- Why? Why did I chose carnitas?
(laughs)
They've both been dry
and kind of underwhelming in the flavor department.
- It's not too late to change.
- No, it is.
- You can do whatever you want.
- It is now because I can't fairly judge anyone else.
Okay, so trucks are two for two for
pastor and carne asada
and oh for two for carnitas.
But we're gonna keep on trucking.
- Oh! - Oh!
- Keep on trucking!
- Oh. - Oh.
- Look at that, look at that.
- Let's get back in the car.
- Taco fact!.
Do you know there is a right time to eat tacos?
Traditionally, tacos are a lunch food.
So we're doing it right.
- This time last year I made a video
about getting pizza in New York.
My argument was that tourists go to New York,
they're gonna go to Midtown, they're gonna try pizza
and that's gonna be their impression of pizza.
And in the same regard in Los Angeles,
tourists come to Hollywood and they're gonna get tacos.
But are the tacos in Hollywood good?
- We're doing street tacos today.
For those who are not initiated:
the street taco is a beautiful thing.
It is small taco about yay big.
Typically just served with meat.
And then you add your own onions and cilantro.
They'll have a little cart on the side.
You can add your salsas.
But it's a simple food.
- Excuse me for this:
the dingier the place looks, the better the food is.
- I think that's a good call.
- All right, we've just had two spots
and now we're driving west on Sunset Boulevard.
We're not even past Wilton yet.
- Can I show you,
if we just wanna go north and south instead,
how many taco places are right here?
- Keep your eyes peeled, every direction.
See these little side streets are sometimes gonna-
- Tacos, Papi.
- Papi.
Papi, tacos and churros.
- There's Ramen on their menu.
It says 'OG Ramen' over there.
- Ramen?
- [Garrick] Yeah.
- Is it like the pozole with noodles?
I like pozole.
- [Zach] Yo!
Okay, most important question.
What is ramen?
A layer of birria?
- [Employee] Yes.
- Whoa, and it's consomme.
- Wow.
Birria!
- [Zach] I'm just excited to eat.
I'm so hungry.
- Here comes Zach.
Oh yeah, look at those.
Wow, those are beautiful.
- [Zach] Yeah, really pretty.
- [Keith] Oh my gosh.
Oh, this is a wet mother (bleep).
- Hell yeah.
- Let's try, what are these, Papi tacos?
- Papi. - Papi.
- Hold that.
- I'm just gonna dripping all over their table.
This is (bleep) slam dunk today.
- [Zach] Really?
- Holy shit. This birria's excellent.
- [Garrick] Oh yeah.
- All right, hit me, I want a bite.
- Yeah.
- [Keith] Wow. - It's so wet.
Oh yeah!
- Yeah.
- Oh, (bleep) me.
- Slam dunk.
- Jackie Jack, we're gonna need some napkins pronto.
- We're gonna need a lot.
We need help.
- That's on me, that's on me.
They actually smoked this.
You can really taste a smoky flavor.
- Oh, oh my God.
- Yeah.
- Color me impressed and surprised.
And none of us used this salsa that came with it.
- No.
- [Zach] We didn't even think to,
- I don't know, it's just all around savory, fatty,
delicious.
It's got zazz.
It makes your eyes open up.
You know, whoo!
- [Zach] It's spicy.
- It's got zazz.
- Location wise, this is also
walking distance from the old Arc Light.
This is right smack dab in Hollywood.
So this is a place that you, tourists would come
and I think they would be very pleasantly surprised.
- It's Sunset and Vine.
- And I got the churros.
They're not part of today's video,
but I have yet to find a good churro in America.
- Give me a little crunch.
- I'm into the crunch, man.
I love a crunch with a gooey center.
This is fantastic.
- This is worth going out of your way to get good.
- Yeah, it's good.
- I'm gonna come back, I'm gonna bring Maggie.
- And we're still not close to the tourist area.
The tourist area's further west.
We gotta get close to that Boulevard, baby,
where there's 16 Mickey Mouses.
- All right, let's get moving.
Taco Fact!
- All right, what's the new one?
- The first taco truck was in Nueva York.
- Oh.
- In 1966, the first taco truck came to New York City.
It didn't have a full kitchen,
but it was mostly used for catering.
- I was like, New Haven, New York, from Spiderman 2099?
- Okay, we're back driving down Vine now.
We passed Santa Monica.
- Tacos!
- Right there.
- [Zach] Cactus Taqueria is a chain in Los Angeles,
but one of the good ones,
Certain people have their favorite numbers.
(speaks Spanish)
- Spanish?
Zach speaks Spanish!
- [Zach] Oh, you have al pastor?
Yeah, let's do that.
- That as the extra one.
- [Zach] Yeah.
Oh, that's a lot of beef.
These are huge tacos.
- [Keith] You can't even see the tortilla
on almost any of these.
Wow!
This is what I was looking for.
This is what carnitas should normally look like.
- Oh, I, oh no.
- You lost it right on the table?
- I lost the 'cado.
- [Garrick] Oh my God.
- This is the best carnitas I've had so far.
- Really?
- Tastes like pork, wet, savory, indulgent.
Listen to the splashy little mouth sounds I have.
You can hear it splashing around in there
like it's a water park in my mouth,
but it's pork fat, not a slide.
- Thank you for that.
This still has a really good flavor.
It's a little dryer, but that's good.
You wanna try the fish?
You don't have to.
- I'll try the fish.
I like fish.
- Yeah.
I want to eat this, but I like, shouldn't.
- Hmm!
This tastes like a really good Filet-o-FIsh.
- I liked yours, you were hard on it.
- You haven't been trying the other ones, so.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not saying that this is bad.
It's not bad.
None of these are gonna be bad.
That's the other thing.
You can throw a, a rock at any taco truck in LA and it'll be
- There should be something good there.
better than most of the places where you're from.
- All right, shall we keep going?
- Let's do it.
- Keep trucking.
- We're saying Google maps be damned.
We're just gonna weave 'til we find something.
- There's gotta be a taco truck.
There's gotta be, we're in Los Angels.
Okay.
- This doesn't really have the same energy
as the New York video, 'cause you're just in a car.
- (bleep) stuck!
- Walking around and just stopping.
(laughs)
- There they are.
Look at them, get a shot of 'em.
- The tourists?
- Yes!
Get a shot of 'em!
They're having fun.
Hollywood, baby!
Is it everything we dreamed of, honey?
Oh, hey look, it's Mickey Mouse.
Oh!
It's an all-way cross.
- [Zach] Everyone, keep your eyes peeled.
- [Keith] Okay, but see, is this person selling tacos?
Maybe somebody here's selling tacos.
- Do you have tacos?
No, that's street dogs.
- [Keith] He's got fruit and street dogs.
- [Zach] Street dogs.
Okay, I think you need to let me out.
I gotta go, I gotta go.
I just gotta go.
- I can't just, I'm not gonna do that.
Okay bye, good luck.
Do you wanna take the GoPro with you?
- Nah.
- [Keith] Oh, okay.
We'll never see him again.
I have no idea how we're gonna ever find him.
I have no idea how we're gonna link back up with him.
- Okay. I'm gonna find 'em.
I'm gonna find, I'm gonna find the tacos.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a hero.
Let's see.
Taco.
Taco!
When I first came to LA as a kid,
this was the tourist spot to go to: Hollywood and Highland.
It's a bunch of overpriced bullshit.
And I'm happy to be back.
Taco, taco, come on.
Where are you, taco?
Taco!
- Oh shit!
Okay, yes!
Yes, we found one!
Oh!
- Is that a taco truck?
- Yes!
- I mean, is that an accessible taco truck?
- It's gotta be, yes!
Oh (bleep).
It's a burger truck!
Oh, come on!
(laughs)
- [Garrick] It's not even the right truck!
- It's got fire all over it.
- [Garrick] It's not even the right truck.
- Smashin' Patties?
- Can't find it, Keith said to bail.
He wants me to bail.
I can't find the tacos.
I feel like a failure.
(groans)
I couldn't even find a fricking Johnny Rockets
to save my life.
Come on, one more try, Zach, come on.
You gotta find it.
Cold Stone Creamery.
Maybe it's here!
I (bleep) found it!
Yes!
Ya, ya, ya, I found it!
Could I get three tacos please?
I got it!
I got it.
Yeah!
Oh shit, Chewbacca's here.
Chewbacca!
Okay, where the (bleep) is Keith?
Okay.
I see them!
- There he is, here he is.
(laughs)
- [Garrick] It's like a heist.
(heavy breathing)
- We did it.
Oh, barely an inconvenience.
Oh, did I, did I cut by accident?
Was I not rolling?
That's a bummer.
(laughs)
So, I proudly present Tacos Neza.
I expected this to be like,
they have like their Chipotle meats in a bucket
and they scoop it out and served to me.
But she made all of ours fresh on the grill.
I have mediocre hopes for this.
- Wow!
- Ooh, look at this.
- Okay it, it's interesting.
It kind of look like a Mexican taco
and white people taco night had a baby.
- [Zach] Yeah. - [Garrick] Yeah.
It's almost the yellowing of a crunchy taco.
- [Keith] Yeah.
- Tortilla check.
(laughs)
- Oh God.
- [Keith] I'm not gonna do a tortilla check.
- Here we go. - Okay, let's try the tacos.
- [Zach] This is not bad.
- [Keith] Not bad.
- [Zach] But it's not great.
- The tortilla's good.
The chicken is well seasoned,
but it just doesn't scream Mexican to me.
- [Keith] The pastor is pretty good lunch pastor.
- This is the better quality of beef that I've gotten
out of the pastor places.
- I like this more than the carnitas tacos I had earlier.
- The baked chips of taco places.
- Oh! - Hmm.
(laughs)
- [Keith] Okay!
- If that's the worst taco I have today,
it was a pretty good day.
- It was a pretty good day.
- Should I just go down Sunset?
- [Zach] Yeah.
- Looking for tacos, looking for trucks,
looking for tacos, looking for trucks.
- Oh, tacos!
- That's the finest (bleep) head on a swivel
we've been looking for!
- Woo!
See ya! - Tacos!
(laughs)
(sad violin music)
What's up, Zach?
What's going on?
- It opens at five.
- [Keith] Oh, okay.
Well, I guess we'll get back in the car.
You sure there's not another taco place, like here?
- Wow, this place is bumpin'!
- [Keith] This is a party!
- [Zach] Open 24 hours.
- [Keith] Can I get one pastor taco,
one carnitas taco and one asada taco.
- I'm feeling the food coma vibes a little bit.
Getting a little, little sleepy.
- This is a thick, juicy taco, look.
- [Keith] It's huge, it's huge.
- Look at the juices in here.
- [Keith] That pastor is wet.
- [Zach] Wet.
- [Keith] All right, here we go.
- [Zach] Ready?
I'll tell you, this is the hottest taco we've had today.
Garrick's happy.
- This is the best one by far.
Like literally.
- Really?
Top of the first bite, I'm like, oh yeah.
No, there's no way.
There's no way anything is beating here.
- This is how I felt when you guys had Leo's earlier.
- You have, you played the long game.
You've been like just steady all day and then bam.
- Bam, yeah.
- Okay. Well now I want to try it.
- Mmhmm.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- That has the taste of when you go to a place
and they've been using the same flat top for
50 years, which I assume they have.
- [Zach] Yeah.
- It tastes like all the meat in the world's
been cooked on this.
- Yeah.
- I love it.
- Wow, you're right.
That one's incredible.
- That one, that's hard to beat.
It's very fatty.
It's very tender, soft.
I'm really trying to use words I learned from the bear.
- My brain doesn't recognize this as al pastor.
It's, it's like wet tomato meat.
Hmm.
- Close your eyes and think spaghetti.
It's pretty good.
Like, I need that on spaghetti.
- I can't taste it. - Yeah, right?
See!
How many more do we think we're gonna go to?
- I don't know, as many as we see!
But we haven't seen that many.
Five?
- Taco fact!
In 2011, there was an attempt to make
the world's biggest taco.
It was 246 feet in length.
- That's pretty big.
- Did anybody eat it?
How did they fold it?
- Did a group of people eat it?
- I don't know.
- Okay, eyes open for tacos, everybody.
- I see it, taco!
- I see it.
- I see it!
- Okay, okay.
(yells)
- It's taco time.
- All right, let's get some tacos.
- Do you guys have just birria or the other meats?
Just birria, okay.
We'll do two tacos.
It's money club
- [Keith] Cash pinky.
- Cash pinky. - [Keith] Cash pinky.
- Cash pinky, cash pinky, cash pinky.
My name is Cash Pinky and I, you come to me
I help you with all your problems.
- [Garrick] His first name is Bob.
Bob Cash Pinky.
- [Keith] Bob Cash Pinky.
- Hey, I'm Bob Cash Pinky.
Come on down to the store there.
We got all sorts of sofas.
- All types of sofas.
- All types of sofas, or he-
- You're gonna love it.
That's the Cash Pinky promise.
- I know my name is associated with a lot of bad stuff,
but here at Cash Pinky's, you're gonna get a good deal.
- Yeah, my uncle killed a couple guys.
It's okay.
Look Scarlet, I really like you.
And just 'cause I'm a Cash Pinky doesn't mean I'm a bad guy.
- [Employee] Two tacos.
- Ooh, that's us!
Again, they're lava hot.
They're just unbelievably hot.
- [Zach] Oh wow, the steam coming off that.
- It's hot
Hotter than I was prepared for.
- Oh my God.
You know when he asked if we wanted the hot sauce on it,
- You said yes.
And I was like, okay.
- I was thinking about you after the fact and I, oops.
- That's too hot for me to eat.
But it's good.
But one bite and my tongue is on fire.
- My mouth is tingling.
My tongue is just-
(dinging)
All right, next.
- Alright, let's Cash Pinky outta here.
- Oh (bleep) yeah,
I see a pastor spit and it's fresh.
Let's go.
You see what I see?
- I see a big ol' spindle of pork!
I said I see a big ol' spindle of pork!
It's pastor!
- Why did we do this during the day?
This is just, it's just the fun's just getting started.
- [Keith] Wow.
And look at this.
This is what I've been waiting for.
A big old table.
Just a table of stuff.
From beast bone?
- [Zach] What is a beast bone?
Let's find out.
What can you tell me about the suadero?
Is that-
- [Employee] Brisket.
- Beef brisket. - Beef brisket.
Hell yeah.
- We'll do
(speaks Spanish)
Yeah!
Whoo!
- [Keith] Should we put some of the grilled onions
on one of those?
- [Zach] I don't know.
Yeah, sure, why not?
- [Keith] I mean, this looks like the legit setup.
Yeah.
- [Zach] I've driven by it so many times
and I just have never stopped.
- [Keith] They look pretty darn good.
Pastor!
There's so much meat on this.
- It's a lot of meat.
- That's a nice depth of flavor.
It kind of evolves as you taste it.
It's got like a tartness in the sweetness, as well.
- Nothing sophisticated to say about this.
It's just wonderful.
It's one of the better non-Mexico tacos I've ever had.
And a generous helping of pineapple.
- [Keith] And meat for two bucks!
It's one of the cheaper tacos of the day.
- Feels like you're about to get something special.
- Uh-huh.
- This is the best one.
It's the best one.
- I just love it.
It's the best flavors you'll ever have.
And it's in a fucking tent
- [Keith] Across from My Crab House.
That crab looks friendly though.
- [Garrick] I'd eat him.
- Okay, we gotta try this crazy,
it was like beast meat or something?
- Beef bone.
- Yeah, beast bone.
- Beef from the beast bone.
- That's probably the best bite of food you can find.
- [Zach] Yeah.
- It's almost 80 percent fat.
- [Zach] Okay.
- It's like, you know, ground beef is 80/20.
It's like that.
20/80.
- It's immediate, like a mouth coat of just fat.
- Just fat.
(mumbling)
- You wanna eat this?
- Yeah, I want to eat this.
- This is gonna make your bones swell in half.
It's just beef fat.
- That's hilarious.
- It's so fatty.
- I feel like I just drank that taco.
- Yeah.
- Best thing I've had.
But you can only take one bite out of it.
Because the second bite will clog an artery.
- Yeah, that was really intense.
Every taco we had today was pretty (bleep) good.
- [Garrick] Yeah, very true.
- There were really no misses.
I mean there were sometimes places that had
a taco we didn't like as much,
but there was always a taco that was great.
I think tacos are great for that.
They're quick, they're cheap, they're delicious,
they're indulgent and they're there for you.
- Tacos there for you!
And it is yummy, too.
- Is it done?
Are we done?
Right, we'll see you next time.
Let us know what other foods
you want us to eat a lot of
and sort of generally say they were good about.
- I got a California roll at every sushi place.
(laughs)
- That is a great idea, but it won't be fun.
(upbeat music)
- It's a birria-
- Let's let the audience see what we see.
(laughs)
You know, see what it looks like on the other side.
- The boys and the trash.
Oh, I got it!
Here, I'm sending it back.
Woo! Tight spiral.
Silly goose.