Thousands of visitors every week come to dine at the long-established restaurants of Mexicantown or to search out the dozens of colorful eateries and tiny taquerias that dot the rest of largely Hispanic southwest Detroit.
But an increasing number of food lovers are trying a different option: taco trucks.
Roughly a dozen of the licensed kitchens-on-wheels pull into strip-mall lots or onto neighborhood streets daily to serve tacos, burritos and more to hundreds of customers — many of them regulars.