El Nutri Taco
| El Nutri Taco | |
|---|---|
| Exterior of the restaurant in southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood, 2025 | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Food type | Mexican |
| Location | Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States |
| Website | elnutritacopdx |
El Nutri Taco (sometimes El Nutri-Taco)[1] is a restaurant with two brick and mortar locations in Portland, Oregon, United States. The family-owned business operates on Alberta Street in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood and on Woodstock Boulevard in southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood, serving Mexican cuisine with many gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options. The menu includes burritos, nachos, and tacos, with meats and alternatives such as soy curls, potato, and tempeh.
El Nutri Taco has also operated food carts. The business has garnered a positive reception and was named one of the 25 best vegan Mexican restaurants in the nation by VegNews in 2023.
Description
[edit ]The family-owned[2] Mexican restaurant El Nutri Taco operates two brick and mortar locations in Portland, Oregon.[3] One restaurant is on Alberta Street in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood and another is on Woodstock Boulevard in southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood.[2] The restaurants have a "distinctive" green and orange exterior, according to Eater Portland .[4] The business has also operated as food carts.[5] When the two carts were in Lents and the Alberta Arts District, both had outdoor seating with picnic tables. According to The Oregonian , the Alberta cart was especially popular during Last Thursday and the Lents cart operated predominantly via take-out in the wintertime.[5]
Menu
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El Nutri Taco has many gluten-free,[6] vegetarian, and vegan options. The menu includes burritos with ingredients such as aioli with chipotle, cabbage, jalapeños, salsa fresca, and zucchini.[2] Among varieties of burritos is the Fantastico, which has a wheat tortilla, cactus, mushroom, onion, and rice, as well as black and pinto beans. The Volcano has chipotle soyrizo, rice, cheese, avocado, lettuce, onions, aioli, salsa fresca, and red hot sauce.[5] A popular option is the wet burrito with enchilada sauce.[4] One vegan option is the chile relleno burrito. Other vegan dishes use chipotle tempeh and soy curls as meat alternatives, Beyond Meat chicken, and baked potato,[2] as well as soy-based cheese and sour cream.[3] [5]
The vegan nachos have tortilla chips, Daiya cheese, black beans, Tofutti sour cream, avocado, and salsa fresca, as well as pickled carrots and jalapeños.[1] [5] Entries with meat use beef, chicken, chorizo, pork, and beef tongue. Taco fillings include asada, carnitas, chicken,[7] avocado, chorizo, eggs, potato, and tofu. El Nutri Taco has also served grilled cactus,[4] chimichanga,[8] tortas (including soyrizo and al pastor varieties),[9] [10] chips and salsa, Mexican sodas, and orange juice.[5]
History
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As of 2012, El Nutri Taco operated as food carts in Lents and the Alberta Arts District.[5]
Reception
[edit ]Willamette Week has said the chile relleno burrito "is not to be missed".[3] Grant Butler ranked the vegan nachos eighth in The Oregonian's 2012 list of Portland's ten best vegan dishes.[1] [11] In 2016, Heather Arndt Andersen of the Portland Mercury gave El Nutri Taco honorable mention in an overview of her favorite tortas in the city.[9] Portland Monthly included the business in a 2017 list of seventeen "standout vegan-approved" Portland restaurants.[12] Sarah McLoughlin included the business in VegNews 's 2023 list of the 25 best vegan Mexican restaurants in the nation.[8] In Eater Portland's 2023 overview of recommended restaurants for vegan tacos, Waz Wu said El Nutri Taco is "a favorite among residents" of the Alberta and Woodstock neighborhoods.[4] Lonely Planet has recommended the restaurant for dining in north and northeast Portland.[6]
See also
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- Hispanics and Latinos in Portland, Oregon
- List of Mexican restaurants
- List of restaurant chains in the United States
- List of vegetarian and vegan restaurants
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c Butler, Grant (2012年10月23日). "Counting down Portland's best vegan dishes: Nos. 8 and 7". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b c d "El Nutri Taco". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b c "El Nutri Taco". Willamette Week. 2019年08月21日. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b c d Wu, Waz (2021年05月11日). "Where to Find Tasty Vegan Tacos in Portland". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2021年11月28日. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b c d e f g Butler, Grant (2012年02月18日). "Cheap Eats: Vegan nachos at El Nutri-Taco". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b Bigg, Margot; Bujan, Bianca; Fralic, Brandon; Oh, Leslie Hsu; Kohn, Michael; Leviton, Alex; Robinson, Britany; Sung, Amy (2024). Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest. Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-83758-587-8.
- ^ Gabrielson, Kjerstin (2018年03月02日). "20 places where you can eat for 5ドル or less in Portland". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2020年11月09日. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b McLaughlin, Sarah. "The 25 Best Vegan Mexican Food Spots Across the US". VegNews.com. Archived from the original on 2024年11月25日. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ a b Anderson, Heather Arndt. "Eat This: Welcome to the Torta Chamber". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ "It's Cinco de Mayo. Go Eat a Burrito". Willamette Week. 2011年05月05日. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ Butler, Grant (2012年10月26日). "Portland's top 10 vegan dishes: The complete list". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2021年04月20日. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
- ^ "17 Standout Vegan–Approved Restaurants in Portland". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2025年05月11日.
