Tony's Street Tacos at Gosling and Spring Stuebner

Tony's Street Tacos has opened a new location at Spring Stuebner and Gosling, just down the way from their former location at Northampton and Root Road.  Chef Tony was at this location when I came by to check it out. I usually order the tacos, but this time he recommended the empanadas and sopes.  I got a chicken empanada and a brisket sope.  

Tony opens the empanada and adds sauce and a creamy white cheese before serving it, so it eats like a fried puffy taco.  The crust is light with a good bite, and the filling is delicious.  The sauce makes the chicken moist and tender.

The sope is a fried dough circle (looks a little like a larger shortcake) topped with a mound of your choice of protein, lettuce, white cheese and their special sauce.  The sope is firm and has a lip, so even though it's piled high you can pick it up to eat it.  The sope is satisfying and crunchy, but the truly special part for me is that slow-cooked brisket.  It comes out tender and with great flavor.  

You get two salsas with your food, green and red. The green chile salsa is mild and flavorful, only a slight kick. The red sauce is seriously hot. I put just a little on my empanada and it was all I could handle. Both have good flavor and are worth using. The salsas are served in a knotted plastic wrap, which makes them a bit harder to work with (you can poke them with your fork).
Tony's Street Tacos now has three locations--one on Louetta, one down in Rosenberg, and the most recent addition here inside the "Buzzin' Market" at the Valero station.  I'm really happy to have a location close at hand again.

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