Food fight: Here’s where to find our favorite Seattle tacos

It is time for Axios Seattle’s inaugural Meals Struggle! Right now, we sq. off with a road meals staple — tacos.

Lewis’ choose: Sazon Kitchen (Ballard, Queen Anne).

• I am a taco purist. Any taco should meet a couple of fundamental necessities: conventional Mexican spiced meats. Small, handmade corn tortillas. Sparse toppings that embrace some mixture of onions, radishes, lime and scorching sauce.
• Throw in a couple of surprises and preserve the meats juicy, and you have made me a daily buyer.
• Checking off all these packing containers — and extra — is Sazon, my newest prime taco.
• My Sazon choose: The Al pastor — with marinated pork on small, corn tortillas, a mixture of onions, cilantro, pineapples and pickled crimson onions on prime, with radishes, limes and scorching sauce on the facet. There are layers of complementary taste all for a mere $3 a pop. Do not get fewer than three.
• Runner up: TNT Taqueria (Wallingford). The meats are juiciest within the late afternoon. Bonus: Victoria beer in a bottle.

Melissa’s choose: I am by no means one to show down tacos from Sazon Kitchen. However my present Seattle favourite is Carmelo’s Tacos.

• The handmade tortillas are out of this world.
• The meat is bursting with taste, particularly the al pastor with its punch of pineapple.
• The sauces (particularly the salsa verde, which I may eat by the cupful) style unadulterated and contemporary, as do the add-ons of carrot and onion.
• In addition they have some taste combos you’ll be able to’t get in every single place, such because the taco campechano — a combination of chorizo, potato and steak.
• The Mexico Metropolis-style taqueria just lately opened a bigger location on twelfth and Cherry, along with its authentic spot in Capitol Hill’s Hillcrest Market.