Taquería Orinoco
The chicharrón comes soft inside and seared outside instead of shattering like a crisp, which is the taco to lead with. Roma Norte door, Álvaro Obregón 100, and it runs late.
Why go
Orinoco cooks a Monterrey menu in Mexico City. The board runs to three meats, trompo, res and chicharrón, and then the formats built on them: gringas, piratas, campechanas and norteñas.1 The company now trades from nine doors, six in the capital and three in Nuevo León, and the one at Álvaro Obregón 100 is the Roma Norte room.1 Their Nuevo León door sits on a street called Río Orinoco, which is as close to an origin story as the company puts in print.1 Guillaume Guevara's advice at The Infatuation is to save it for a late visit after the bars nearby.2
Order this / avoid
- Order: a round of the tacos de chicharrón first. Guevara:
Orinoco's are soft on the inside and seared on the outside, resulting in a fun mix of textures
.2 - Order: the pastor off the trompo after that. Guevara calls them
arguably the best in all of CDMX
.2 - Avoid: treating this as dinner. It is the stop on the way home.
What locals & experts say
- Guillaume Guevara, The Infatuation CDMX:
instead of crispy, potato chip-like slices of fried pork rinds, Orinoco's are soft on the inside and seared on the outside, resulting in a fun mix of textures.
He does not say which of the nine doors he ate at, so the line covers the company's cooking and not this room in particular. He is a Mexico City native who works as a freelance food and beverage consultant.2
Good to know
- This is the Roma Norte door. Av. Álvaro Obregón 100. Eight others trade under the same name, five more in the capital and three around Monterrey.1
- Walk in, or order to the door. Each branch runs its own WhatsApp ordering line.1
Verdict
could-visit — One outside sentence carries this, and it is a good one about the chicharrón, from a writer who consults in the trade and who does not say which of the nine doors he ate at. That is the honest limit: the operator publishes its branch list and its menu, the pin resolves to Roma Norte, and nothing pins the review there. Nobody has given it an award and the Guide does not list it, so there is no standing to weigh. Late, cheap, after the bar, and the chicharrón is the reason to walk past the pastor first.