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Mas Tacos Por Favor
Mas Tacos Por Favor started in 2008 as a food truck built out of a 1974 Winnebago, the creation of self-taught chef Teresa Mason. Two years later, in 2010, Mason opened a permanent brick-and-mortar location in East Nashville's Five Points neighborhood, and the counter has stayed there ever since, growing into what locals now describe as the taco spot East Nashville built its lunch culture around. The menu leans scratch-made and specific rather than trying to cover every regional Mexican style at once — fried avocado tacos, a well-regarded elote (Mexican street corn), and a tortilla soup that regulars order as often as the tacos themselves. It's counter-service, cash-only, no-reservations food, built for a fast, casual lunch rather than a sit-down dinner, which fits the food-truck roots the restaurant never really left behind even after going brick-and-mortar. Mas Tacos has picked up national attention beyond its East Nashville regulars, including a feature on Guy Fieri's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" — genuine mainstream recognition for a restaurant that's stayed resolutely counter-service and unpretentious even as it's become one of the most talked-about taco spots in the city. Thousands of online reviews have kept it rated among Nashville's most consistently loved restaurants, taco-focused or otherwise. That consistency, sustained since a single Winnebago in 2008, is the real story here — Mas Tacos didn't chase a bigger space or a fancier build-out as its reputation grew, it just kept doing the fried avocado tacos and elote that built the following in the first place, at the same McFerrin Avenue address it's occupied since 2010. For a Nashville taco list, Mas Tacos Por Favor is the essential "food truck that became a neighborhood institution" entry — scratch-made, counter-service tacos that East Nashville has organized its lunch routine around for well over a decade.
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Tacos Lopez
Tacos Lopez sits on Nolensville Pike, the stretch of South Nashville that's become the city's most concentrated corridor of immigrant-owned restaurants, groceries, and taquerias — a genuine international corridor in a city more commonly associated with hot chicken and barbecue. Tacos Lopez fits squarely into that identity: a taco truck that's actually attached to a building, with the option to eat inside, at outdoor picnic tables, or straight out of the car. The menu sticks to the format that's made Nolensville Pike's taco trucks and taquerias so consistently well-regarded among serious local eaters — street tacos, fajitas, quesadillas, tostadas, and gorditas, alongside pollo asado and a proper horchata to wash it all down. It's fast, affordable, and built for repeat visits rather than a single special-occasion trip, the same formula that's kept plenty of Nolensville Pike's best taco spots thriving for years without much need for outside marketing. Reviews consistently describe Tacos Lopez as straightforward and authentic — no-frills Mexican food served fast, without pretense, to a customer base of longtime locals and newcomers who've discovered Nolensville Pike's food scene more recently as it's gotten broader attention from Nashville's dining press. That word-of-mouth, corridor-driven reputation is part of what makes Tacos Lopez worth seeking out specifically — it's not chasing a citywide audience with a flashy build-out, it's a genuinely good neighborhood taco truck-turned-restaurant that's built its following the same way most of Nolensville Pike's best food has: one satisfied regular at a time. For a Nashville taco list, Tacos Lopez is the essential "Nolensville Pike street taco" entry — a taco truck built into a permanent storefront, serving fast, authentic corn-tortilla tacos on the same corridor that's become Nashville's real international food destination.
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