Taco Tuesday: Is this a pizza or just the biggest red taco you’ve ever seen?

Critic Brad A. Johnson wonders if we’re going to be seeing pizzabirria everywhere soon.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • February 15, 2022
Measuring a whopping 15 inches in diameter, and sliced into wedges, the pizzabirria at the new Tacos Madre in Costa Mesa does look sort of like a pizza. Emphasis on “sort of.” It is sort of multiple things, the least of which is a pizza. Stuffed...
The full article can be read on the Orange County Register website.

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