Tacos downtown Yonkers

I haven't had a specific taco craving, but I had been eyeing the signs for Mexican food downtown Yonkers for some time when I finally had the chance to sample a couple of weeks ago.

Getty Square Luncheonette has a wide-ranging menu including traditional breakfast platters (the hashbrowns looked tempting). The beef taco was incredible, a browned heaping of meat on two steaming tortillas topped with freshly chopped cilantro, onions, guacamole. It comes with lime slices for squeezing over the awesome pile, as well as crispy radish slices and red and green hot sauces.

Emboldened by my find, I also tried Tacos El Poblano, a brightly painted shack nearby with a solely Mexican menu. The carnitas and steak tacos came on similarly steaming tortillas, but with no veggies. Those choices are left to the eater, who has an entire salad bar of chopped cilantro, onions, pickled peppers and more to top off the tacos. The carnitas were brown and crispy. The beef not as good as Getty Square (I later tried Getty Square's carnitas -- not as good at Tacos el Poblano) but not bad.

For less than three bucks a taco, you can't go wrong at either place.

Getty Square: 2 Main Street, Yonkers NY

Tacos El Poblano: On the Southeast corner of the intersection of New Main Street and Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, NY