The ramen Quan Van couldn’t keep in the pots at Kai Asian Street Fare was the product of a lunch meetup — local restaurant dudes, grabbing grub at another local. It was Hunger Street Tacos, Joe Creech’s place, where the still-newish birria machete was the dish that Van, like a preponderance of the city’s plugged-in foodies, was hot to sample.
Sexy Instagram vids of house-nixtamalized, landrace corn tortillas, stuffed with brisket and dunked in rich, fiery bone marrow broth had incited a riot of buzz.