Taco Tuesday: Forget the diet, it’s time for Roman’s carnitas

For this week’s taco, critic Brad A. Johnson heads to an old haunt in Costa Mesa where the beer is cold and the crispy carnitas drips with fat.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • February 26, 2019
There’s no way around it: Pork fat is delicious. Hence, carnitas is delicious. Carnitas is essentially pork butt cooked in its own fat. And some of my favorite carnitas tacos are the ones at Roman’s Taqueria in Costa Mesa. Picture in your mind a...
The full article can be read on the Orange County Register website.

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