It's become the kind of neighborhood spot people duck into on the way out for the night or on the way home from one, which is its own quiet form of institution status.
There's no elaborate backstory or signature dish doing the heavy lifting here, just a dependable taqueria doing the basics reliably for a neighborhood that relies on it.
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