The Drowning Taco food truck finds bricks & mortar home in Chandler

By Jess Harter Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Drowning Taco, a Mesa-based Mexican food truck, has moved into a bricks-and-mortar space near the southeast corner of Arizona and Ray (map) in Chandler.

It takes over a strip mall suite that once was home to Nana’s Mexican Cafe, which closed a couple of years ago.

The Drowning Taco began as a Sonoran hot dog stand, then expanded into an award-winning Mexican food truck that set up daily next to a battery store near the southwest corner of Broadway and Mesa.

Earlier this year, Mesa launched a beautification and improvement project along Broadway that forced The Drowning Taco and several other non-permanent eateries to find new homes.

The Drowning Taco’s signature menu item are tacos ahogadas (pictured at top), rolled ground beef tacos in a spicy tomato soup-like sauce (three for $3.25).

They’re known as Chico’s Tacos, a reference to a legendary Mexican restaurant in El Paso, Texas, that popularized them.

The menu still offers the Sonoran dogs ($3.99) from its earliest days, as well as street tacos ($1.99), burritos ($5.49-$7.89), and quesadillas ($4.99-$7.99).

The Drowning Taco is open 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 7 a.m.- 1 a.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.

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