Los Gamas Tortilleria: Your (Tacos) are Everywhere, Screaming Infidelities
Choriqueso & carne asada tacos @ Los Gamas Tortilleria
[this is an archived post from my old blog. I will be slowly migrating, and editing, these posts]
Los Gamas Tortilleria
Recommended by: Thrillist
Location: 3333 W. Armitage Ave
Neighborhood: Logan Square
Category: OG
Los Gamas Tortilleria, or just Los Gamas, is a little shop in Logan Square. It's a bit confusing when you first walk in - you order at one counter and pay at another and literally everything is in Spanish. I always think my Spanish is solid but then get stage fright whenever I actually want to use it; so, it took me a few minutes to adjust, but, by then, we had already stumbled our way in English through our order and sat down.
The wait was a little long but they had some telenovelas playing to keep us entertained - though this one seemed like a bit of an after school special telenovela than an actual telenovela. Then again, most of my knowledge of telenovelas comes from Jane the Virgin so, WHAT THE HELL DO I KNOW?
On to the tacos:
We got the carne asada and the choriqueso (recommended). The choriqueso was a bit of a spin on queso fundido, but on a taco.
And these tacos were. so. good. Seriously, fellow taco connoisseur, Sara Seibt, and I didn't realize how long it had been since we had had tacos that were as good as these tacos. WE FORGOT TO ASK FOR CHEESE ONTHE CARNE ASADA TACOS and they were still so dope.
Honestly, so good. so so so good. We restricted ourselves to two because we had a second location to go to, but I could have had more. Were they the absolute best tacos we've had? Not quite. But that didn't stop them from being awesome and recommendation-worthy in and of themselves.